ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 18 Nov 2025 14:30 - 14:40 at Grand Hall 6 - Smart Contracts

Smart contracts are fundamental pillars of the blockchain, playing a crucial role in facilitating various business transactions. However, these smart contracts are vulnerable to exploitable bugs that can lead to substantial monetary losses. A recent study reveals that over $80%$ of these exploitable bugs, which are primarily functional bugs, can evade the detection of current tools. Automatically identifying functional bugs in smart contracts presents challenges from multiple perspectives. The primary issue is the significant gap between understanding the high-level logic of the business model and checking the low-level implementations in smart contracts. Furthermore, identifying deeply rooted functional bugs in smart contracts requires the automated generation of effective detection oracles based on various bug features.

To address these challenges, we design and implement PROMFUZZ, an automated and scalable system to detect functional bugs, in smart contracts. In PROMFUZZ, we first propose a novel Large Language Model (LLM)-driven analysis framework, which leverages a dual-agent prompt engineering strategy to pinpoint potentially vulnerable functions for further scrutiny. We then implement a dual-stage coupling approach, which focuses on generating invariant checkers that leverage logic information extracted from potentially vulnerable functions. Finally, we design a bug-oriented fuzzing engine, which maps the logical information from the high-level business model to the low-level smart contract implementations, and performs the bug-oriented fuzzing on targeted functions. We evaluate PROMFUZZ from $4$ perspectives on $5$ ground-truth datasets and compare it with multiple state-of-the-art methods. The results show that PROMFUZZ achieves $86.96%$ recall and $93.02%$ F1-score in detecting functional bugs, marking at least a $50%$ improvement in both metrics over state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, we perform an in-depth analysis on $10$ real-world DeFi projects and detect $30$ zero-day bugs. Our further case studies, the risky first deposit bug and the AMM price oracle manipulation bug on real-world DeFi projects, demonstrate the serious risks of the exploitable functional bugs in smart contracts. Up to now, $24$ zero-day bugs have been assigned CVE IDs. Our discoveries have safeguarded assets totaling $$18.2$ billion from potential monetary losses.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 18 Nov

Displayed time zone: Seoul change

14:00 - 15:30
Smart ContractsResearch Papers at Grand Hall 6
14:00
10m
Talk
Leveraging Mixture-of-Experts Framework for Smart Contract Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Model
Research Papers
Hang Yuan Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Xizhi Hou Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lei Yu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Li Yang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiayue Tang Institute of Software, CAS, Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiadong Xu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yifei Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fengjun Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Chun Zuo Sinosoft
14:10
10m
Talk
Why Is My Transaction Risky? Understanding Smart Contract Semantics and Interactions in the NFT Ecosystem
Research Papers
Yujing Chen Zhejiang University, Xuanming Liu Zhejiang University, Zhiyuan Wan Zhejiang University, Zuobin Wang Zhejiang University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Difan Xie Hangzhou High-Tech Zone (Binjiang) Institute of Blockchain and Data Security, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University
14:20
10m
Talk
Demystifying OpenZeppelin's Own Vulnerabilities and Analyzing Their Propagation in Smart Contracts
Research Papers
Han Liu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Daoyuan Wu Lingnan University, Yuqiang Sun Nanyang Technological University, Shuai Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Yixiang Chen East China Normal University
14:30
10m
Talk
PROMFUZZ: Leveraging LLM-Driven and Bug-Oriented Composite Analysis for Detecting Functional Bugs in Smart Contracts
Research Papers
Xingshuang Lin Zhejiang University, Qinge Xie Georgia Institute of Technology, Binbin Zhao Zhejiang University, Yuan Tian , Saman Zonouz Georgia Institute of Technology, Na Ruan Shanghai Jiaotong University, Jiliang Li Xi'an Jiaotong University, Raheem Beyah Georgia Institute of Technology, Shouling Ji Zhejiang University
14:40
10m
Talk
VeriExploit: Automatic Bug Reproduction in Smart Contracts via LLMs and Formal Methods
Research Papers
Chenfeng Wei The University of Manchester, Shiyu Cai The University of Manchester, Yiannis Charalambous The University of Manchester, Tong Wu , Sangharatna Godboley NIT Warangal, Lucas C. Cordeiro University of Manchester, UK and Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil
14:50
10m
Talk
SolContractEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Contract-Level Solidity Code Generation
Research Papers
Zhifan Ye Zhejiang University, Jiachi Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Zhenzhe Shao Sun Yat-sen University, Lingfeng Bao Zhejiang University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University, Zhongxin Liu Zhejiang University
15:00
10m
Talk
PrefGen: A Preference-Driven Methodology for Secure Yet Gas-Efficient Smart Contract Generation
Research Papers
Zhiyuan Peng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xin Yin Zhejiang University, Zijie Zhou China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Chenhao Ying Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chao Ni Zhejiang University, Yuan Luo Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Pre-print
15:10
10m
Talk
Soleker: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Solana Smart Contracts
Research Papers
Kunsong Zhao The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Yunpeng Tian The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Zuchao Ma The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xiapu Luo Hong Kong Polytechnic University
15:20
10m
Talk
Have We Solved Access Control Vulnerability Detection in Smart Contracts? A Benchmark Study
Research Papers
Han Liu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Daoyuan Wu Lingnan University, Yuqiang Sun Nanyang Technological University, Shuai Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University