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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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Solidity data types

The Solidity language is statically typed. When writing a contract or library definition, all of the state variables and local variables must have the data type specified along with its declaration. There are many data types supported by Solidity. You can create your own custom type by using the data types supported by Solidity; for example, you can define your complex struct variable.

Solidity also has a support for the var keyword, used for dynamic data type. However, since Solidity version 0.4.20, the var keyword has been deprecated because of security concerns.

If we look at the Java language, it has primitive data types and reference data types. For reference data types, especially for instantiable class, the default value is null while initialization. However, in Solidity, there is no concept of null values. Instead of null, the...

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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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