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Correct-by-Design Smart Contracts: FSolidM / VeriSolid Framework

This repository contains the implementation of the FSolidM / VeriSolid framework, which allows designing and generating secure Solidity smart contracts. FSolidM / VeriSolid is built on WebGME. A hosted version of FSolidM is available online on CPS-VO for non-commercial and academic use.

Contents

  1. What is FSolidM?
  2. How to install FSolidM?
  3. Features of FSolidM

What is FSolidM?

The adoption of blockchain-based distributed computation platforms is growing fast. Some of these platforms, such as Ethereum, provide support for implementing smart contracts, which are envisioned to have novel applications in a broad range of areas, including finance and Internet-of-Things. However, a significant number of smart contracts deployed in practice suffer from security vulnerabilities, which enable malicious users to steal assets from a contract or to cause damage. Vulnerabilities present a serious issue since contracts may handle financial assets of considerable value, and contract bugs are non-fixable by design.

To help developers create more secure smart contracts, we introduce FSolidM, a framework rooted in rigorous semantics for designing contracts as Finite State Machines (FSM). We present a design studio for creating FSMs on an easy-to-use graphical interface and for automatically generating Ethereum contracts. We have integrated in FSolidM a set of design patterns, which we implement as plugins that developers can easily add to their contracts to enhance security and functionality.

How to install FSolidM?

First, install the following:

On Ubuntu, you also need to install npm and nodes-legacy using apt.

To clone the repository, first install (if necessary):

and then clone the repository in your preferred directory, for example:

cd /home/$USER
git clone https://github.com/anmavrid/smart-contracts.git

This makes the 'project root' for the git repo /home/$USER/smart-contracts.

Install packages with npm in the project root (smart-contracts):

cd /home/$USER/smart-contracts
npm install
npm install webgme
npm install -g bower
bower install

Start mongodb locally by running the mongod executable in your mongodb installation (you may need to create a data directory or set --dbpath). For example:

cd /home/$USER
mkdir sc_data
mongod --dbpath ./sc_data

wait until you see a line that says "[initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017".

Then, in a new terminal window, run npm start from the project root (smart-contracts) to start. For example:

cd /home/$USER/smart-contracts
npm start

After the webgme server is up and there are no error messages in the console, open a valid address in the browser to start using the Smart Contracts. The default is http://127.0.0.1:8888/, you should see all valid addresses in the console.

Click Create New… to create a new project. After entering a project name of your choice, import the seed SC to start working on smart contracts!

IMPORTANT: To use the VerifyContract plugin, please download the nuXmv tool (version 1.1.1) from https://es-static.fbk.eu/tools/nuxmv/index.php?n=Download.Download and just add it in the smart-contracts/verificationTools folder.

Features

Project history view with branching and tagging

TS model editors

Solidity development

Safety properties

Verification