👋 Introduction

Welcome to our BSides Cape Town workshop on smart contract security!

Workshop details

<aside> ⏱️ Date: Saturday, 3 December 2022

Time: 13:00 (GMT+2)

Duration: ~2 hrs

Location: BSides Cape Town (On-site and Virtual)

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Who is iosiro?

We’re a security consultancy with a focus on blockchain security, particularly in the Ethereum ecosystem. We’re mostly South African, but our clients are from all over the world — Synthetix, Nexus Mutual, 1inch Network and Set Protocol, and others, representing over a billion dollars in assets. We’ve also independently found and disclosed several high-risk bugs [1, 2, 3, and many more] for bounty rewards.

What will we cover?

We’ll be taking a whirlwind tour through the exciting and high-risk Ethereum smart contract ecosystem and teach you the basics of hacking internet money.

Who will benefit from this course?

This workshop is open to anyone, but to keep it focused, we’re going to assume someone with the experience of a typical developer. Things that will help:

• Familiarity with JavaScript
• A basic understanding of general cybersecurity concepts

No previous knowledge of or experience with blockchains or smart contracts is expected.

Before the workshop

• ‼️ Download and set up the challenges repo before the workshop‼️ https://github.com/iosiro/smart-contract-workshop-challenges
• Be sure to join the official workshop Telegram group https://t.me/iosiro, come say hi and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

📚 Course content

We’ve prepared some content that you can feel free to go through in your own time. It’s not a strict requirement to participate in the workshop, but will provide you with a better foundation. It’s grouped into three parts:

Part 1: What are smart contracts & why are they useful?

Part 2: How to get started developing and testing smart contracts on the EVM