Blockchain Village·31 min
Martin Abbatemarco
Presents a structured seven-phase methodology for auditing and attacking smart contracts, from reconnaissance to post-exploitation.
DEF CON Safe Mode/Blockchain Village across years
Virtual (Discord and Twitch) · 6-9 August 2020 · 11 talks
Blockchain Village focuses on smart contract vulnerability analysis, decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits, consensus protocol security, crypto wallet auditing, and blockchain node defense.
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Blockchain Village·31 min
Martin Abbatemarco
Presents a structured seven-phase methodology for auditing and attacking smart contracts, from reconnaissance to post-exploitation.
Blockchain Village·45 min
Peter Kacherginsky
Analyzes attack vectors against blockchain peer-to-peer nodes and RPC endpoints, and details hardening configurations for node operators.
Blockchain Village·43 min
Suhyeon Lee
Explores applying decentralized ledger technology and smart contracts to strengthen cybersecurity defense and telemetry integrity.
Blockchain Village·54 min
Peter Kacherginsky
Keynote presentation by Peter Kacherginsky exploring blockchain security challenges, threats, and emerging decentralized technology.
Blockchain Village·29 min
Josh McIntyre
Deconstructs the elliptic curve cryptography, hashing pipelines, and Base58Check encoding used to generate Bitcoin addresses.
Blockchain Village·31 min
Peiyu Wang
Demonstrates vulnerability discovery and exploitation techniques targeting insecure cryptocurrency software wallets.
Blockchain Village·31 min
Peiyu Wang
A live walkthrough demonstrating vulnerability identification, reverse engineering, and exploitation of flawed crypto wallet applications.
Blockchain Village·57 min
Ryan Rubin
Assesses the maturity, security postures, flash loan risks, and protocol vulnerabilities in decentralized finance (DeFi).
Blockchain Village·6 min
Ryan Rubin
Ryan Rubin answers audience questions on decentralized finance architecture, systemic risks, and protocol auditing.
Blockchain Village·52 min
Ron Stoner
Covers architectural security patterns, Tendermint consensus auditing, and threat vectors across the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem.
Blockchain Village·58 min
Rastogi Gokul
Explains how Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) can be deployed as cryptographic proof-of-time barriers to mitigate DDoS attacks.