How secure are your smart contracts? Emilie Raffo and Torgin Mackinga from Chainsecurity (Switzerland)

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilieraffo/">Emilie Raffo</a>, founding Partner and Head of Sales at <a href="https://chainsecurity.com/">ChainSecurity</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/torginmackinga/">Niko Torgin Mackinga</a>, blockchain security engineer spoke to <a href="https://www.rudolffalat.com/">Rudolf Falat</a>, founder of the <a href="https://www.voiceoffintech.com/">Voice of FinTech</a> podcast, about smart contracts, its pros and cons and how to make them useful and secure.</p><p><br></p><ul> <li>Emilie, Torgin - why did they become entrepreneurs</li> <li>What is a smart contract, and how does it differ from an escrow or automating contract steps that you could do say with a macro?</li> <li>Smart contracts audits – sound like the next level of difficulty in the blockchain game. So why do we need them?</li> <li>What are the sort of issues you found regarding smart contracts? Did the code not do what was promised? Anything malicious?</li> <li>ChainSecurity is a PwC spin-off – will audit firms venture into auditing smart contracts at some point?</li> <li>What’s different between Chainsecurity and other smart contract auditors?</li> <li>What’s ChainSecurity's technology angle, or is it that they have more brilliant engineers than anyone else?</li> <li>Key clients for their services</li> <li>How does ChainSecurity deals with potential liability for its work </li> <li>Plans for scaling up</li> <li>Business model</li> <li>Team and locations</li> <li>Further reading: <a href="https://www.dunod.com/entreprise-et-economie/futur-especes-comment-crypto-monnaies-vont-bouleverser-societe">Le futur des espèces</a>, Emilie Raffo's book on crypto (in French), DeFi News from <a href="https://thedefiant.io/">Defiant</a>, an article about Torgin's paper on oracle manipulation <a href="https://chainsecurity.com/oracle-manipulation-after-merge/">https://chainsecurity.com/oracle-manipulation-after-merge/</a> and the full paper: <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/445">https://eprint.iacr.org/