Evaluation of ChatGPT's Smart Contract Auditing Capabilities Based on Chain of Thought

Understand

Smart contracts, as a key component of blockchain technology, play a crucial role in ensuring the automation of transactions and adherence to protocol rules.

• However, smart contracts are susceptible to security vulnerabilities, which, if exploited, can lead to significant asset losses.
• This study explores the potential of enhancing smart contract security audits using the GPT-4 model.
• We utilized a dataset of 35 smart contracts from the SolidiFI-benchmark vulnerability library, containing 732 vulnerabilities, and compared it with five other vulnerability detection tools to evaluate GPT-4's ability to identify seven common types of vulnerabilities.