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ethereum

A collection of 23 issues

State of security of new DeFi projects

This will be a continuation of a rant on how clients should prepare for an audit. [https://www.adrianhetman.com/how-to-prepare-for-a-security-audit/] Opinions and views are my own if you haven’t catch that 😉 I’ve been auditing smart contracts for 8 months now. I’ve seen my fair share of

How to prepare for a Security Audit

DeFi space is growing strong, TVL is growing even faster, and the stolen value from DeFi protocols. According to DeFi Pulse [https://defipulse.com], the Total Value Locked in DeFi projects is roughly $80.78B. $80.7B... That’s $15B more since I brought that number up in my article

Intro to DeFi

This won’t be a long post as I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and re-tell the same story as many people have told it much better than I even could. I will do a really brief introduction to DeFi for those who don’t know what it

Four Hacks, one week

This was an interesting week. We saw four hacks; first, two happened to one company in few days, and the third hack fuelled a cross-chain attack that happened to my knowledge. Total value lost from Value DeFi and Rari Capital this week is around $36M, whereas $25M belongs to hacks

Shanghai Hard Fork

Berlin, London, now Shanghai named after Devocon2, which took place in that city; Ethereum Core Devs like to travel, that’s for sure. London is defined, and we’re 99% certain what will be included. We’re not expecting any last-minute change to any EIP inclusion, so we can start

London Hard Fork

With Berlin's hard fork already on the mainnet since April 15th, all the focus has shifted towards the next upgrades to the network and what do they bring. For you people not knowing what is a hard fork, here’s a quick explainer. A “fork” is a change to the

New brave world after EIP-1559

In the upcoming London hard-fork, scheduled to happen in July, one significant change London is bringing is the inclusion of the famous EIP-1559. The gas killer, the prodigy, the all-awaited change in the gas fee marketplace. In summary, EIP-1559 changes how gas fees work in Ethereum. From the current system

What the EIP/ERC!?

In Ethereum world ERC-XXX or EIP-XXXX phrases comes up quite often but for people new to the Ethereum world, this looks quite cryptic. What is EIP? EIP stands for Ethereum Improvement Proposal and it is a common way of requesting changes to the Ethereum Network inspired by Bitcoin Improvement Proposals

War on Gas

The main issue haunting the Ethereum network is gas prices for each transaction. High gas prices caused many problems and bizarre situations like Kings of Leon’s NFT were cheaper than a transaction cost when the release of their NFT. It's a massive problem for Ethereum making the applications more

"The Docking" of Ethereum

After EIP-1559 [https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1559] scheduled to be included in London, there was an uprise in miners that threaten to do a show of force by gathering 51% of all hashing power on April 1st. If you don’t know what that means, here’s an explainer: