Voice of FinTech®

Emilie Raffo, founding Partner and Head of Sales at ChainSecurity and Niko Torgin Mackinga, blockchain security engineer spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about smart contracts, its pros and cons and how to make them useful and secure.

Show Notes

Emilie Raffo, founding Partner and Head of Sales at ChainSecurity and Niko Torgin Mackinga, blockchain security engineer spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about smart contracts, its pros and cons and how to make them useful and secure.

  • Emilie, Torgin - why did they become entrepreneurs
  • What is a smart contract, and how does it differ from an escrow or automating contract steps that you could do say with a macro?
  • Smart contracts audits – sound like the next level of difficulty in the blockchain game. So why do we need them?
  • What are the sort of issues you found regarding smart contracts? Did the code not do what was promised? Anything malicious?
  • ChainSecurity is a PwC spin-off – will audit firms venture into auditing smart contracts at some point?
  • What’s different between Chainsecurity and other smart contract auditors?
  • What’s ChainSecurity's technology angle, or is it that they have more brilliant engineers than anyone else?
  • Key clients for their services
  • How does ChainSecurity deals with potential liability for its work 
  • Plans for scaling up
  • Business model
  • Team and locations
  • Further reading: Le futur des espèces, Emilie Raffo's book on crypto (in French), DeFi News from Defiant, an article about Torgin's paper on oracle manipulation https://chainsecurity.com/oracle-manipulation-after-merge/ and the full paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/445, Andreas Antonopoulos Youtube channel
  • Reach out here: contact@chainsecurity.com 

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