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Smart Contract Upgrade Safety: Proxy Patterns and Their Pitfalls
|Odin Scan Team

Smart Contract Upgrade Safety: Proxy Patterns and Their Pitfalls

Upgradeable contracts let you fix bugs after deployment. They also let you introduce new ones. Here are the proxy patterns, their trade-offs, and the specific mistakes that cause storage corruption, bricked contracts, and stolen funds.

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Reentrancy in 2026: The Bug That Refuses to Die
|Odin Scan Team

Reentrancy in 2026: The Bug That Refuses to Die

Ten years after The DAO hack, reentrancy is still draining protocols. The classic variant is well-understood. The modern variants are not. Here is what reentrancy looks like in 2026.

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Smart Contract Testing: What Your Test Suite Is Missing
|Odin Scan Team

Smart Contract Testing: What Your Test Suite Is Missing

Your tests pass. Your contracts still get drained. Here is why: most test suites verify the happy path and skip the exact conditions attackers exploit.

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EVM Smart Contract Security: The Developer's Practical Guide
|Odin Scan Team

EVM Smart Contract Security: The Developer's Practical Guide

Billions lost. Mostly to the same handful of bugs. Here is the complete practical guide to EVM smart contract security: what the vulnerabilities are, why they happen, and how to prevent them.

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LST/LRT Oracle Pricing: The Pattern Behind $100M+ in DeFi Losses
|Odin Scan Team

LST/LRT Oracle Pricing: The Pattern Behind $100M+ in DeFi Losses

The same misconfiguration pattern has drained protocols multiple times. LST and LRT price composition is not complicated, but getting it wrong is catastrophic.

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Vibe Coding Smart Contracts: What Could Go Wrong?
|Odin Scan Team

Vibe Coding Smart Contracts: What Could Go Wrong?

AI coding assistants write fast, confident code. Smart contracts hold real money. That combination has a growing track record of going badly wrong.

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