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Identifying and Characterizing Semantic Clones of Solidity Functions
Ermanno Francesco Sannini, Francesco Salzano, Simone Scalabrino +4
Smart Contracts are essential blockchain components, mainly written in Solidity. The high availability of public Solidity code leads to frequent reuse and high clone ratios. Since…
Human-Agent versus Human Pull Requests: A Testing-Focused Characterization and Comparison
Roberto Milanese, Francesco Salzano, Angelica Spina +4
AI-based coding agents are increasingly integrated into software development workflows, collaborating with developers to create pull requests (PRs). Despite their growing adoption,…
Beyond Code Similarity: Benchmarking the Plausibility, Efficiency, and Complexity of LLM-Generated Smart Contracts
Francesco Salzano, Simone Scalabrino, Rocco Oliveto +1
Smart Contracts are critical components of blockchain ecosystems, with Solidity as the dominant programming language. While LLMs excel at general-purpose code generation, the uniqu…
An empirical analysis of vulnerability detection tools for solidity smart contracts
Francesco Salzano, Cosmo Kevin Antenucci, Simone Scalabrino +3
The rapid adoption of blockchain technology highlighted the importance of ensuring the security of smart contracts due to their critical role in automated business logic execution…
Fixing Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: A Comparative Analysis of Literature and Developer's Practices
Francesco Salzano, Simone Scalabrino, Rocco Oliveto +1
Smart Contracts are programs running logic in the Blockchain network by executing operations through immutable transactions. The Blockchain network validates such transactions, sto…
Integrating Blockchain technology within an Information Ecosystem
Francesco Salzano, Lodovica Marchesi, Remo Pareschi +1
Context: Blockchain-based Information Ecosystems (BBIEs) are a type of information ecosystem in which blockchain technology is used to provide a trust mechanism among parties and t…