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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Coinbase unveils 'Solidify' tool to auto-audit smart contracts and DeFi clones

Coinbase has unveiled a new smart contract analyzing tool dubbed “Solidify” to audit Ethereum smart contracts and DeFi clones.

Coinbase has unveiled a new tool that can automatically audit smart contracts built on Ethereum that use the Solidity programming language.

Designed to be used by smart contract auditors, asset issuers, and other exchanges, the firm has plans to make the tool open source later this year

In a June 23 post, Coinbase’s principal blockchain security engineer Peter Kacherginsky announced the firm's new security analysis tool dubbed “Solidify”, which was created to improve on the “time-intensive and error-prone” process of manual smart contract analysis.

The engineer noted that the exchange’s token listing process requires extensive security reviews and “risk mitigation recommendations” for every smart contract to keep consumers safe.

The firm required an analyzer that can work quickly, safely, and at scale, but was unhappy with other options on the market:

“To solve this problem we developed a tool called Solidify (a play on Solidity) to increase the rate of new asset security reviews without lowering our high-security standard that Coinbase customers have come to expect for protecting their tokens.”

The Solidify tool has around 6,000 unique signatures which can be used to quickly match risks against Ethereum smart contracts. It looks at potentially dangerous functionality and insufficiently tested operations.

Kacherginsky explained that: “Solidify uses a large signature database and a pattern matching engine to reliably detect contract features and their risks, standardize and score smart contract risks, suggest mitigation strategies, and generate detailed reports.”

Solidify is not yet able to quickly analyze complex assets such as automated market makers (AMMs) and DeFi apps, because the large amount of complicated custom code involved requires additional manual analysis.

“However, Solidify is still beneficial for these applications when analyzing DeFi clones or for eliminating standard libraries from the manual review scope so analysts can focus on the custom logic,” Kacherginsky notes.

Related: Fact check: Has Coinbase launched a decentralized fact-checking portal?

The tool is a work in progress and developers will focus on “improving accuracy of signature generation and detection logic” and “Integrating formal verification techniques to reduce the need for manual analysis.”

They also hope to expand support to the Vyper programming language, which is utilized by the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

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