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Introduction CoinFabrik has been hired to audit the contracts for the Decentraland Land Auction. In the following sections we will provide a description of the contracts and their purpose, the audit methodology, detailed information about the issues found and, to wrap up, our conclusions on the contracts. Overview The contracts audited are from the “Land […]
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Following our Smart Contract Auditing: Human vs. Machine article, we now analyze Slither, which is another static analysis tool from Trail of Bits. It includes aids for contract summaries, which can be helpful for making a mental model of the contract and rechecking assumptions. Considering the ease of use, it’s a good idea to try […]
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In this blog post, we present a high-level overview of the paper describing the Ouroboros Proof of Stake protocol implemented in Cardano´s blockchain. After the overview follow some comments about theoretical aspects of the protocol.
In general, Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus protocols elect the network nodes responsible to send the next block to the blockchain on the basis of the nodes’ amount of stake.