Comment of the Month: October 2022

[zube.paul]

I am nominating this post by @HomicidalChicken. It was their first post on the forum too!

Discussion: Solutions to smart contract security challenges

Hey there, sounds like an interesting assignment, I’ll share some of my thoughts based on what I’ve worked with. This brings to mind the Diamond pattern (EIP-2535) which has similar upgrade and extension patterns for discrete pieces of business logic (facets) and storage. Upgrades work similarly as to how they work with proxies, with similar security concerns if the upgrade is not done in a trustworthy process. Since the proxy could potentially be changed to a malicious upgrade, added process…

This was a great response to a post seeking feedback on a few potential solutions to blockchain security concerns. Not only was this post helpful to the original poster, it also shared some valuable resources.