Learn Smart Contract Auditing 2023

[@ArjunJagadeeshV]

Thanks for the generous knowledge, Andy....

[@andyli]

No worries!

[@MichelLedig]

just subscribed, thanks for sharing your journey man

[@andyli]

Cheers!

[@manav2003]

Great knowledge 😍

[@andyli]

🙂

[@MoCrits]

You are very helpful, i am a test automation engineer (QA). Do you think quality control is a helpful background for being an auditor. I am being very calculative before making such transition.

[@MoCrits]

Your background is penetration testing. So do you think Smart contract auditing is more QA related or cyber security related in your opinion.

[@andyli]

I imagine you would be writing a lot of unit tests day to day? That is a big part of auditing. The thought process from pentesting carried over, ie. attackers mindset. Generally I would say this field is still very early and if you have a technical background you shouldn't have too much issues getting started.

[@MoCrits]

@@andyli thansk, for replying. You know that can be a great video idea alot of people are very careful when transition ing. You can rank backgrounds and how they be helpful for auditing.

[@mdsathees3747]

Is automation tools ( slither, mythril) help us during audit?

[@andyli]

It can catch some low hanging fruit issues, but no serious bugs. (Developers will also usually run them and fix any issues before the audit)

[@mdsathees3747]

@@andyli Thank you.

[@mdsathees3747]

Do you have any methodologies to check the vulnerability in automation way? Since we have stipulated timeline for auditing, automation could save some time.

[@andyli]

@@mdsathees3747 yeah you can make a custom script. Check c4udit on github

[@mdsathees3747]

@@andyli thanks 🙏

[@KundanKumar-uj2in]

Hi I am new here started ethernaut complete 14 challenges.. what should I do after ethernaut

[@andyli]

go through this github.com/x676f64/secureum-mind_map

[@KundanKumar-uj2in]

@@andyli thanks 🌻

[@hari17130]

Why do we learn when there's no monetary benefits for this and there are existing automation tools for this? PS: I'm new to Web3

[@andyli]

Automation can only find a small proportion of low hanging fruit issues. Learning manual audit can land you a job paying 150-300k

[@hari17130]

@@andyli Thanks for replying back! See you soon on the leaderboard! 😁