The EAPLS Best Paper Award 2022

The EAPLS Best Paper Award 2022 is awarded to the paper

"Fast and Reliable Formal Verification of Smart Contracts with the Move Prover", by David Dill, Wolfgang Grieskamp, Junkil Park, Shaz Qadeer, Meng Xu and Emma Zhong (Novi Research, Meta Platforms, Menlo Park, USA).

This paper has been published in the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2022). Congratulations to the authors!

The abstract of the paper:

The Move Prover (MVP) is a formal verifier for smart contracts written in the Move programming language. MVP has an expressive specification language, and is fast and reliable enough that it can be run routinely by developers and in integration testing. Besides the simplicity of smart contracts and the Move language, three implementation approaches are responsible for the practicality of MVP: (1) an alias-free memory model, (2) fine-grained invariant checking, and (3) monomorphization. The entirety of the Move code for the Diem blockchain has been extensively specified and can be completely verified by MVP in a few minutes. Changes in the Diem framework must be successfully verified before being integrated into the open source repository on GitHub.

Link to publication:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99524-9_10