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How Formal Verification Could Have Prevented the Loss of 2 Billion EduCoin

ID: 521459f3-74a9-5587-b75f-a0ac1dbecfd0

STIX ID: report--521459f3-74a9-5587-b75f-a0ac1dbecfd0

Feed Name: CertiK Blog

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2018-05-24

Date Updated: 2026-06-11

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The report describes a critical bug in EduCoin's smart contract transferFrom implementation that fails to validate allowance, allowing an integer underflow and enabling attackers to steal over 2 billion EDU tokens; it demonstrates how CertiK's formal verification tool can automatically detect such vulnerabilities before deployment.

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