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Published inAug 2019
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Jitendra Chittoda
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Jitendra Chittoda

Jitendra Chittoda is a blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity. His day job is to perform security audit on smart contracts and expose security vulnerabilities in Solidity and Scilla contracts. He has also developed a non-custodial, decentralized, P2P lending contracts for ETHLend. The Solidity contracts that he has developed or audited handle over $100 million worth of cryptoassets. He also served as a tech and security advisor in various ICO projects. Before finding his passion for blockchain, he coded in Java for over 11 years. He is the founder and leader of Delhi-NCR-JUG, a non-profit meetup group for Java. He holds a master's degree in computer applications and is regularly invited as a speaker at various conferences and meetups.
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Contract ownership

There are some contracts that require the ownership of the contract to control some behavior in the contract. These contracts inherit from OpenZeppelin ownership contacts. These types of contracts require ownership rights so that the owner of the contract can access and control some of the features/functions of the contract. Sometimes, the ownership of a contract is defined such that it decides and influences token minting, ether/token flow, and ether/token withdrawals.

The ownership of the contracts should be given to the trusted entity. The following responsibilities need to be taken care of:

  • If ownership is given to an EOA, the owner needs to keep the private key of that account secure, in a safe place. Losing the private key would incur the loss of ether/tokens or malicious activity. The owner could lose their private key by forgetting where they kept...
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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
Published in: Aug 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839218262

Author (1)

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Jitendra Chittoda

Jitendra Chittoda is a blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity. His day job is to perform security audit on smart contracts and expose security vulnerabilities in Solidity and Scilla contracts. He has also developed a non-custodial, decentralized, P2P lending contracts for ETHLend. The Solidity contracts that he has developed or audited handle over $100 million worth of cryptoassets. He also served as a tech and security advisor in various ICO projects. Before finding his passion for blockchain, he coded in Java for over 11 years. He is the founder and leader of Delhi-NCR-JUG, a non-profit meetup group for Java. He holds a master's degree in computer applications and is regularly invited as a speaker at various conferences and meetups.
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