A Security Case Study for Blockchain Games
This addresses security issues in blockchain gaming, an emerging entertainment domain, but is incremental as it applies existing analysis methods to a new application area.
The authors analyzed the architecture of blockchain games to identify security vulnerabilities, scanning over 600 commercial games to provide a security overview from web server and smart contract perspectives, and conducted three case studies to demonstrate detailed vulnerability detection.
Blockchain gaming is an emerging entertainment paradigm. However, blockchain games are still suffering from security issues, due to the immature blockchain technologies and its unsophisticated developers. In this work, we analyzed the blockchain game architecture and reveal the possible penetration methods of cracking. We scanned more than 600 commercial blockchain games to summarize a security overview from the perspective of the web server and smart contract, respectively. We also conducted three case studies for blockchain games to show detailed vulnerability detection.