Releasing the Attacknet: A new tool for finding bugs in blockchain nodes using chaos testing

By Benjamin Samuels (@thebensams)

Today, Trail of Bits is publishing Attacknet, a new tool that addresses the limitations of traditional runtime verification tools, built in collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation. Attacknet is intended to augment the EF’s current test methods by subjecting their execution and consensus clients to some of the most challenging network conditions imaginable.

Blockchain nodes must be held to the highest level of security assurance possible. Historically, the primary tools used to achieve this …

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