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EVM stands for "Ethereum Virtual Machine". The EVM powers the Ethereum mainnet, but also Layer 2 protocols, sidechains, and EVM-compatible chains.

This list is an overview of the EVM ecosystem from an information security management perspective.

Guides

CryptoSec.info

Information to help beginners learn how to protect their funds against hackers and scammers.

Simplified Roadmap for Blockchain Security

Covers all rudimentary topics that one needs to know in order to get into the field of Blockchain Security.

How to become a smart contract auditor

Frequently asked questions that are related to auditing and auditors can get their first job.

Governance

A beginner's guide to DAOs

Gives a high level overview of what DAOs are, why they are interesting and some of their use cases.

Deep DAO

Lists, ranks and analyzes top DAOs across multiple metrics.

SAFT Agreements

A commercial instrument used to convey rights in tokens prior to the development of the tokens' functionality.

Voting Options in DAOs

Voting Options in DAOs.

The Wyoming DAO bill

A thread about Wyoming DAOs .

It Takes a Cryptonetwork

Prime's Strategy for DAO to DAO Relations.

DAOs, Democracy and Governance

A paper by Ralph Merkle about DAOs.

Architecture

Shelling Out: The Origins of Money

Illustrates the value of collectibles in reducing social transaction costs.

Foundations of Cryptoeconomic Systems

This paper explores why the term

Towards a Practice of Token Engineering

How do we design tokenized ecosystems, their incentives and how do we analyze or verify them?

A Crash Course in Mechanism Design for Cryptoeconomic Applications

Introduces the basic concepts of mechanism design, and gives a taste for their usefulness in the cryptocurrency world.

WTF Is QF

A simple explanation of quadratic funding.

Bonding Curves Explained

What bonding curves are and their potential applications.

"cryptoeconomics" is context dependent and proposes complementary micro, meso and macro definitions of the term.

Standards

DeFi Safety

Best practices security score reviews.

DASP Top 10 of 2018

Decentralized Application Security Project Top 10 vulnerabilities.

IVSCS

Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System.

Smart Contract Security Verification Standard

A free 14-part checklist created to standardize the security of smart contracts for developers, architects, security reviewers and vendors.

Secureth guidelines

Aid you in formulating your own software engineering process by giving a complete picture of all the different concerns and expectations in your software projects.

CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS)

A set of requirements for all information systems that make use of cryptocurrencies, including exchanges, web applications, and cryptocurrency storage solutions.

The Solcurity Standard

Opinionated security and code quality standard for Solidity smart contracts.

System Assets

Security Considerations in the Solidity documentation

Lists some pitfalls and general security recommendations.

Ethereum 2.0 Specifications Security Audit Report

Security Audit Report of the Eth2.0 spec by Least Authority.

Getting Deep Into EVM

An Ultimate, In-depth Explanation of How EVM Works.

Ethereum EVM illustrated

Exploring some mental models and implementations.

Ethereum Blockspace: Who Gets What and Why

Ethereum blockspace market structure.

What Is Uniswap and How Does It Work?

What Uniswap is, how it works, and how you can swap tokens on it simply with an Ethereum wallet.

Scaling EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)

How fast and far can the EVM based blockchain architecture still take us.

L2Beat

Transparent and verifiable insights into emerging layer two (L2) technologies.

The Non-Fungible Token Bible

Everything you need to know about NFTs.

KEVM

A formal model of the EVM in the K framework.

Threats

Blockchain Graveyard

A list of all massive security breaches or thefts involving blockchains.

List of Bitcoin Heists

Research on prior Bitcoin-related thefts.

Blockchain Threat Intelligence

The latest in blockchain, DeFi and cryptocurrency threat intelligence, vulnerabilities, security tools, and events.

Rekt News

Investigative journalism, creative commentary, and incident analysis.

DeFiYield's REKT db

Database of Crypto Hacks, Exploit, Scam.

CryptoScamDB

Keeping track of cryptocurrency scams in an open-source database.

Mudit Gupta's Twitter threads

Early analysis and educational content on Twitter.

Flash Boys 2.0 Paper

Frontrunning in Decentralized Exchanges, Miner Extractable Value, and Consensus Instability.

MEV-explore

Help the community understand and quantify the significance of "Dark Forest activities" and their impact on the Ethereum network.

Flashloan monitor

Dashboard that helps you monitor flashloan transactions.

Known Attacks

A list of known attacks which you should be aware of, from Consensys.

Solidity Security

Comprehensive list of known attack vectors and common anti-patterns.

Vulnerabilities

SWC Registry

Smart Contract Weakness Classification and Test Cases.

246 Findings

246 Findings From Trail of Bits Smart Contract Audits.

A Survey of Security Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Explains eight vulnerabilities that are specific to the application level of blockchain technology by analyzing the past exploitation case scenarios of these security vulnerabilities.

List of Security Vulnerabilities

A comprehensive list of common smart contract security vulnerabilities, compiled from various sources.

List of Known Bugs

A JSON-formatted list of some of the known security-relevant bugs in the Solidity compiler.

Controls

Simple Security Toolkit

Opinionated recommendations that the team at Nascent find to be appropriate, particularly for teams developing and managing early versions of a protocol.

Gnosis Safe

Multi-sig. Require multiple team members to confirm every transaction in order to execute it, which helps prevent unauthorized access to company crypto.

List of DeFi auditors

List of DeFi auditors maintained by DeFiSafety.

State of DeFi Audits

Article taking a look at the auditing space and its importance in onboarding users by properly securing new DeFi protocols.

Building Secure Contracts

Trail of Bits' guidelines and best practices on how to write secure smart contracts.

Solidity Patterns

A compilation of patterns and best practices for the smart contract programming language Solidity.

Security Pattern for Ethereum and Solidity

Google Sheets Checklists.

Solidity Best Practices for Smart Contract Security

Pro tips from Consensys to ensure your Ethereum smart contracts are fortified.

CERtified

Top 100 exchanges by Cybersecurity rating.

Smart Contract Security Registry

An effort to identify deployed contracts instances given their chain and address, by listing the project they belong to.

Forta

Community-based runtime security network for smart contracts.

Ecosystem

People to follow on Twitter

Twitter list to an overview of the web3 ecosystem and security people.

Videos to watch on YouTube

YouTube playlist of web3 security videos.

Footnotes

See Also

Awesome BlockSec CTF

Blockchain security Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions.

Awesome Buggy ERC20 Tokens

Vulnerabilities in ERC20 Smart Contracts With Tokens Affected.

Awesome Cryptoeconomics

Cryptoeconomic research and learning materials.

Awesome Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP)

A curated list of awesome things related to learning Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP).

Officer CIA's Ultimate DeFi Research Base

Curated DeFI & Blockchain research papers and tools.

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