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Published inAug 2019
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781839218262
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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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In this chapter, we covered best practices such as avoiding floating pragma, the commit-reveal scheme, using external function calls, and integer rounding errors. Additionally, we discussed attack patterns such as front-running, reentrancy, signature replay attacks, and integer overflow and underflow attacks. These are the most important things to know, as writing contracts in Solidity can be easy, but writing a bulletproof contract is hard.

There have been many hacks, and we have covered some of the most well-known ones, but it's the developer's responsibility to keep checking for newly identified attack patterns, so that they do not make the same mistakes again while writing contracts. Apart from that, always use the latest versions of the libraries. The Solidity compiler does fix the issues in the new versions; keep yourself up to date with the latest...

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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
Published in: Aug 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839218262

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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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