Zellic — Research

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CSPRNGs: How to Properly Generate Random Numbers

BaarkingDog

October 11, 2023

ERC-4337 Primer: What You Need to Know

Vlad Toie

October 1, 2023

Browsing for Bugs: Finding and Reporting a $3M Bug in Premia Finance

Ayaz Mammadov

September 15, 2023

The Auditooor Grindset

Stephen Tong

February 11, 2022

Aaron

May 1, 2023

Top 10 Most Common Bugs In Your Aptos Move Contract

We see these bugs over and over. Are they in your Move contracts too?

The Zellic Team

April 24, 2023

Announcing Smart Contract Fiesta: A Treasure Trove of Ethereum Smart Contracts

Explore 175 million lines of code in our open-source dataset

BaarkingDog

April 6, 2023

How Does Tornado Cash Work?

A breakdown of the mathematical principles behind Tornado Cash

William Bowling

March 29, 2023

SafeMoon Exploit Explained

The SafeMoon liquidity pool exploit explained in simple terms

Stephen Tong

March 18, 2023

Can ChatGPT Audit Smart Contracts?

ChatGPT fails to find simple, but critical smart contract bugs

Varun Verma

March 14, 2023

Euler Finance Exploit Analysis

How a single exploit transaction generated 110 million USD

Rajvardhan

February 2, 2023

Exploring Cosmos: A Security Primer

A developer’s guide to building secure applications on Cosmos

Junyi

December 1, 2022

Move Fast & Break Things, Part 2: A Sui Security Primer

Exploring the security pitfalls of the Move language in Sui compared to Aptos

Stephen Tong

November 18, 2022

Formally Verifying the World’s Most Popular Smart Contract

Proving the safety of the Wrapped ETH smart contract, using the Z3 Theorem Prover

Stephen Tong

November 15, 2022

You Could Have Found the Nomad Hack

Tracking unaudited code can reveal latent, deadly bugs, including the one used to hack Nomad

Stephen Tong

November 14, 2022

Hosting an Ethereum CTF Challenge, the Easy Way

Painless smart contract CTF challenges using Paradigm’s CTF framework

The Zellic Team

November 3, 2022

Ante x Zellic: Audit Incentive Alignment

The first audit firm to stake ETH behind the effectiveness of an audit