Malicious Mev-Bot Walkthrough

0. Preliminary Notes A few months ago, I encountered a scam on Twitter. I clicked on some random tweet that said something like “Hey check out this MEV bot that makes me 5 ETH per week” which led to some Solidity code. At that time, I didn’t understand Solidity but was pretty sure it was a scam (spoilers alert: it was). Also, I had no idea what an MEV bot was, but in hindsight, the scam was attempting to use Solidity code for an MEV bot, which actually made no sense since it requires offchain code to monitor the mempool....

January 26, 2024

Gnosis Safe Smart Contract Walkthrough

0. Preliminary Notes In the second post of my dapp walkthrough series, I will be focusing on Gnosis Safe. This choice was inspired by my recent audit of reNFT for this Code4rena contest, where Gnosis Safe was a significant element. The post will cover Gnosis Safe’s architecture for v1.4.1. I’ve also referred to the following articles about Gnosis Safe while writing this post: https://hackmd.io/@kyzooghost/HJMi2Nllq https://docs.safe.global https://blog.wssh.trade/tags/safe/ 1. What is Gnosis Safe?...

January 18, 2024