Section: New Results

Formal methods for cryptocurrencies

Georges Gonthier and Thomas Sibut-Pinote, along with a team of researchers from Microsoft Research and Inria, participated in a hackathon internal to Microsoft Research with the goal to apply formal methods to the verification of the smart contracts involved in the Ethereum platform. They outlined a framework to analyze and verify both the runtime safety and the functional correctness of Ethereum contracts by translation to F*, a functional programming language aimed at program verification. This work was published in the proceedings of the PLAS 2016 conference [9].