Curriculum·Junior·J306
Smart Contract Risk for Non-Developers
Multichain, July 2023. The cross-chain router was protected by multi-party computation.
Start with lesson 15 lessons · about 2.7 hours · 1 lab · free account to read in full
Lesson 1 opens on
The SQUID token, November 2021
A token trading on the reputation of a television series, with no connection to it, was deployed on BNB Smart Chain (then called Binance Smart Chain) and traded on decentralized exchanges including PancakeSwap. Its white paper laid out what it called an anti-dumping mechanism that prevented selling unless certain conditions were met, and in practice buyers could not sell. Buying worked normally.
The lessons
- J306-01Reading a contract without reading codeEnumerate the eight contract powers that determine your outcome, without reading Solidityabout 31 min · opens on The SQUID token, November 2021
- J306-02Upgradeability and admin keysExplain why upgrade authority subsumes every other contract powerabout 33 min · opens on Compound Proposal 62, September 2021
- J306-03AuditsState what an audit covers and what it explicitly does notabout 33 min · opens on Euler Finance, 13 March 2023
- J306-04The rug taxonomyClassify an exit scam by the mechanism that executes it, not by the story around itabout 33 min · opens on The base rate, measured
- J306-05A risk rubricScore a protocol across the six dimensions this course producesabout 31 min · opens on The average that was always high
Labs
J306-L
Risk-rate three live protocols with the rubric, including at least one the learner currently uses. Written justification for each score.