5 papers
Precise Static Identification of Ethereum Storage Variables (Extended Version)
Sifis Lagouvardos, Yannis Bollanos, Michael Debono +2
Smart contracts are small programs that run autonomously on the blockchain, using it as their persistent memory. The predominant platform for smart contracts is the Ethereum VM (EV…
Desyan: A Platform for Seamless Value-Flow and Symbolic Analysis
Panagiotis Diamantakis, Thanassis Avgerinos, Yannis Smaragdakis
Over the past two decades, two different types of static analyses have emerged as dominant paradigms both in academia and industry: value-flow analysis (e.g., data-flow analysis or…
Program Analysis for High-Value Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: Techniques and Insights
Yannis Smaragdakis, Neville Grech, Sifis Lagouvardos +4
A widespread belief in the blockchain security community is that automated techniques are only good for detecting shallow bugs, typically of small value. In this paper, we present…
The Incredible Shrinking Context... in a Decompiler Near You
Sifis Lagouvardos, Yannis Bollanos, Neville Grech +1
Decompilation of binary code has arisen as a highly-important application in the space of Ethereum VM (EVM) smart contracts. Major new decompilers appear nearly every year and atta…
Universal Scalability in Declarative Program Analysis (with Choice-Based Combination Pruning)
Anastasios Antoniadis, Ilias Tsatiris, Nevill Grech +1
In this work, we present a simple, uniform, and elegant solution to the problem, with stunning practical effectiveness and application to virtually any Datalog-based analysis. The…