Dedaub published a talk by Yannis Smaragdakis explaining how EVM decompilers recover the original bytecode structure by computing jump targets at runtime and reusing instruction blocks across unrelated functions.
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“Yannis Smaragdakis explains it in under a minute, from his talk on building Dedaub's decompiler.”
— Dedaub team
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Dedaub
Smart contract audits, security monitoring, and threat intelligence. 300+ audits, $70B+ secured across 31 chains.
- Industry
- Security Systems Services
- Location
- San Gwann, MT
- Company size
- 16 employees
Dedaub secures smart contracts and onchain protocols through security audits, real-time monitoring, and threat intelligence. Founded in 2021 by program-analysis researchers Dr. Neville Grech and Prof. Yannis Smaragdakis, Dedaub combines deep manual review with proprietary static analysis technology that delivers most of the practical advantages of formal verification at a fraction of the effort. 300+ audits completed for protocols including the Ethereum Foundation, Chainlink, EigenLayer, Lido, LayerZero, Pendle, and GMX. Products: - Security Suite: contract analysis over 29M+ indexed contracts and 25B+ transactions - White Glove Monitoring: expert-written DedaubQL detection agents, protocol-specific and multi-chain - tok{In}: real-time malicious token detection API - Firewall: onchain transaction blocking - Decompiler API: bytecode decompilation with 99.98% EVM coverage Dedaub is a SEAL founding collaborator, ZKSync security council member, Chainlink BUILD partner, and security advisor to the Arbitrum DAO. Request an audit: https://dedaub.com/form/request-an-audit Docs: https://docs.dedaub.com | Research: https://dedaub.com/blog
Founded 2021