Protect your Smart Contract against Unfair Payment
Yue Li, Han Liu, Zhiqiang Yang, Bin Wang, Qian Ren, Lei Wang, Bangdao Chen
University College Oxford Blockchain Research Centre
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
While smart contracts have enabled a wide range of applications in many public blockchains, e.g., Ethereum, their security issues have been raising an increasing number of threats on the stability of blockchain ecosystem. In practice, many external attacks on smart contracts result from broken payments with digital assets, e.g., cryptocurrencies. While an increasing number of research works have been focusing on such problems, many of them adopted pattern-based heuristics (e.g., reentrancy) to find payment-related attacks thus can incur a considerably large portion of both false positives and negatives.