Smart Contract Security
Start your career as a smart contract security researcher! Learn smart contract auditing and the best practices for writing secure and optimized protocols. Explore fuzzing, invariant testing, and formal verification to identify bugs and protect web3 protocols.
24hrs
272 lessons
6 projects
20+ languages
Advanced
What you'll learn
This course will help you learn:
Smart contract invariants testing
Smart contract fuzz testing
Stateless and stateful fuzzing tools
Upgradeable smart contracts
Smart contracts auditing
Cyfrin Aderyn
Manual review
Syllabus
Course description
Become a smart contract security auditor and learn one of the most in-demand skills in web3!
If you’re a Solidity smart contract developer, a seasoned developer, or a security researcher, this course will teach you everything you need to know to get started auditing and writing secure protocols.
With over 100 lectures and more than 24 hours of videos and real-world auditing experience, this comprehensive course will give you the skills to kickstart your Solidity smart contract security auditing career.
We cover a wide variety of topics, including:
- Smart contract invariants testing
- Smart contract fuzz testing
- Stateless and stateful fuzzing tools
- Upgradeable smart contracts
- Smart contracts auditing
- Cyfrin Aderyn
- Manual review
- Smart contracts testing
Project-based, the Smart contract auditing and security course include quizzes, tests, exercises, and assignments and 5 hands-on step-by-step audits performed on real-world mock smart contracts.
We'll take you step-by-step through engaging video tutorials and written lessons to teach you everything you need to know to succeed as a Blockchain security researcher. Here's why:
- The world’s leading smart contract security auditors teach the course with guests from top web3 auditing firms.
- Continuously updated to teach you the latest tools and technologies used at large companies and protocols.
- We've taught over 10,000 students how to audit and write secure solidity smart contracts.
- The curriculum was developed over a period of 1 year, with comprehensive student testing, feedback, and reviews.
- You'll save over $5,000 by enrolling and getting access to the industry smart contract security learning material.
- The course is constantly updated with new content, projects, and modules!
This course will teach you solidity smart contract security auditing practically. Every lecture has a full coding screencast, step-by-step audit processes, and written lessons to learn how it fits you best!
By the end of this course, you will be ready to become a Solidity smart contract auditor and get lifetime access to over 100 lectures, corresponding resources, and repositories.
So what are you waiting for? Learn a Solidity smart contract auditing completely for free!
Meet your instructors
Web3 engineer, educator, and Cyfrin co-founder. Patrick's smart contract development and security courses have helped hundreds of thousands of engineers kickstarting their careers into web3.
Tincho Abbate
Ethereum Security at The Red Guild
Ethereum security researcher at The Red Guild, former lead security auditor at OpenZeppelin, and app pentester.
Josselin Feist
Head of Blockchain at Trail of Bits
Owen Thurm
Lead Auditor at Guardian Audits
Andy Li
Security engineer at Sigma Prime
Johnny Time
Founder at Gingersec
Pashov
Founder at Pashov Audit Group
Juliette Chevalier
Lead Developer relations at Aragon
Alex Roan
Founder at Cyfrin
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