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About the Book
OWASP Smart Contract Security Testing Guide (SCSTG) is a comprehensive manual designed to assist developers, auditors, and security professionals in evaluating the security of smart contracts. It provides detailed methodologies for identifying, verifying, and addressing vulnerabilities in smart contracts across various risk categories. The guide includes examples of common security flaws, methods for detecting these issues, and strategies for mitigating or eliminating the risks.
About the Author
Pratik is a Security Researcher at CredShields, focused on postmortems of web3 rekts, TX analysis & OSINT, tokenomics, and research into web3 security. Previously, Pratik has worked in traditional security with expertise in Red Teaming, code reviews (with proficiency in linters, fuzzers, CodeQL, Semgrep, CxQL), DevSecOps, hypervisor and browser security. He also holds various web2 security certifications. Pratik is very active in all types of CTFs, a major contributor to GSoC and OWASP; and has also won multiple hackathons. He has in-depth working experience with Go, Rust and good understanding of Solidity and Move. Currently, he is dabbling with web3sec and expanding his knowledge in EVM internals, various DeFi protocols, altchains (Cosmos, Solana), node reviews, hash-based snargs and Formal Verification (CVL, Coq and Dafny). When he is not working, Pratik spends majority of his free time strengthening audit skills by participating in contests and bug bounties.