Musab A. Alturki, PhD

Musab A. Alturki, PhD

Senior Research Engineer @ Runtime Verification Inc. working on formal modeling and verification of blockchain and distributed systems

Blog Posts

2021

Best Practices For Securing Algorand Smart Contracts

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Smart contracts are the backbone of decentralized applications in Algorand. Ensuring their security against attacks and the safety of funds they maintain is critical to the success of these applications. In this talk, we give an overview of our world-class security auditing services at Runtime Verification, and reflect on our experiences auditing TEAL smart contracts in Algorand. We highlight some common programming pitfalls and provide some recommendations for best practices when developing TEAL smart contracts.

Added support for TEAL 5 in Tealer

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Tealer is a static analysis tool developed by Trail of Bits for analyzing the structure of smart contracts written in TEAL. I have added to Tealer support for the new features introduced in TEAL 5, including inner transactions.

Runtime Verification Audits Tinyman

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Runtime Verification announced Tinyman’s audit completioni, which was an effort I’ve had the pleasure of leading. Tinyman is a new project under development that focuses on bringing a decentralized trading protocol to the Algorand ecosystem and its community.

2020

Formally Verifying Finality in Gasper: The Core of the Beacon Chain

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Gasper is an abstract proof-of-stake protocol layer that is implemented by the Beacon Chain protocol, the underlying protocol of the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 network. This post highlights our achievements in formally proving key correctness properties of finality in Gasper using the Coq proof assistant.

2019

K vs. Coq as Language Verification Frameworks

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Ever wondered how K and Coq compare and contrast as language verification frameworks? I posted a series of articles comparing K and Coq as language verification frameworks through a working example.