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Vulnerabilities and Open Issues of Smart Contracts: A Systematic Mapping

Software Engineering 2021-05-27 v2 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

Smart Contracts (SCs) are programs stored in a Blockchain to ensure agreements between two or more parties. Due to the unchangeable essence of Blockchain, failures or errors in SCs become perpetual once published. The reliability of SCs is essential to avoid financial losses. So, SCs must be checked to ensure the absence of errors. Hence, many studies addressed new methods and tools for zero-bug software in SCs. This paper conducted a systematic literature mapping identifying initiatives and tools to analyze SCs and how to deal with the identified vulnerabilities. Besides, this work identifies gaps that may lead to research topics for future work.

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@article{arxiv.2104.12295,
  title  = {Vulnerabilities and Open Issues of Smart Contracts: A Systematic Mapping},
  author = {Gabriel de Sousa Matsumura and Luciana Brasil Rebelo dos Santos and Arlindo Flavio da Conceição and Nandamudi Lankalapalli Vijaykumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12295},
  year   = {2021}
}
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