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DeFi Smart Contract Vulnerabilities Audit Guide

Here's a thinking process:

  1. Understand User Request:

    • User wants: 3 common DeFi smart contract vulnerabilities
    • For each: how to detect them
    • Must be specific
  2. Identify Key DeFi Smart Contract Vulnerabilities:
    I need to pick 3 that are very common, well-documented, and have specific detection methods. Good candidates:

    • 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 patterns)
    • Flash loan attacks / oracle manipulation
    • Front-running / MEV issues
    • Timestamp dependence
    • Unchecked return values
    • Logic errors in tokenomics

Let's pick the most impactful and commonly tested/found ones:

  1. Reentrancy

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