Nil pointer deference is a trickly error that can lead to memory access violations once a nil pointer or nil interface was passed to a function that does not handle nil. …

In this short article, we explain to you some tricks that we suggest to our clients at ByteScan.net to reduce gas consumption in their solidity smart contracts. Optimizing your smart contract code can be valuable in decreasing gas fees, making your smart contracts more advantageous. If you’ve ever used smart…

On 30 April 2016, the DAO was launched on Ethereum Block 1428757. It was an thrilling concept: a decentralized autonomous organization governed by a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain and managed based on the investors’ votes. The DAO token sale was a vibrant success, boosting fourteen percent of the…

We’re ByteScan.net, a team of security researchers who have spent the past ~24 months inspecting the internals of the Solana blockchain. …