Devs Do Something

How To Perform an Audit with Damn Vulnerable DeFi Creator & Patrick Collins


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00:00 Intro & Opening Conversation
7:58 Tincho's audit setup

12:35 VSCodium

14:08 Foundry v hardhat

22:00 First audit steps

25:00 Tincho's process for commenting within the code itself
30:00 Processing a codebase with lots of inheritance & moving parts: there’s a kind of art here to flowing back and forth between the big picture architecture/business logic and the low level understanding of contract

32:42 Be careful of going down adjacent rabbit holes that don’t have to do with the thing you’re auditing 

36:52 When Tincho finds a bug… what does he do?

41:15 Communicating with clients

44:12 Waling through tests with Tincho

47:40 To best understand a protocol, make the codebase your own: run things locally

51:00 Time bounding your review process

52:00 Intuition vs checklists

56:05 Learning by reading past reports

59:04 Reviewing fixes

1:00:18 Handling hacks & the purpose of audits

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