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DeFi Smart Contract Vulnerabilities Audit Guide

Here's a thinking process:

  1. Analyze User Request:

    • Topic: DeFi smart contract vulnerabilities
    • Quantity: 3 common ones
    • Requirement: List them and explain how to detect them
    • Constraint: Be specific
  2. Identify Key Vulnerabilities in DeFi Smart Contracts:
    I need to pick 3 of the most common, impactful, and well-documented vulnerabilities in DeFi smart contracts. Common ones include:

    • Reentrancy attacks
    • Integer overflow/underflow (though less common now with Solidity ^0.8.0, still relevant in older code or other languages)
    • Access control issues (owner-only functions, proxy admin takeovers)
    • Flash loan attacks (often via price manipulation or oracle manipulation)
    • Front-running / MEV related issues
    • Logic errors in tokenomics/fee on transfer tokens
    • Unchecked

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