EthereumZuri.ch 2024

Pietro Carta

Pietro Carta, a blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity, specializes in smart contract audits in Solidity and Vyper. He also discovered and responsibly disclosed a critical vulnerability on live code, protecting over $10M in user assets.

Pietro holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and a Master's degree in Data Science from EPFL. He boasts prior experience both in academia and in industry, on the one hand as as a Data Science Consultant for the prestigious UCL university, as a Research Assistant for EPFL, and on the other hand as a CTO and software developer in FinTech companies.

Here's a link to one of his talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAo2JG9SUOQ


Session

04-07
14:35
20min
Reentrancy in Cancun hardfork: the curious case of EIP1153 (transient storage)
Pietro Carta

We will show how EIP-1153, despite introducing a useful primitive for Dapp developers, breaks some security assumptions made by Vyper and Solidity smart contracts, leading to reentrancy attacks. We will also discuss mitigations.

Security
Surge Stage