Vyper: A Security Comparison with Solidity Based on Common\n Vulnerabilities

Abstract

Vyper has been proposed as a new high-level language for Ethereum smart\ncontract development due to numerous security vulnerabilities and attacks\nwitnessed on contracts written in Solidity since the system's inception. Vyper\naims to address these vulnerabilities by providing a language that focuses on\nsimplicity, auditability and security. We present a survey where we study how\nwell-known and commonly-encountered vulnerabilities in Solidity feature in\nVyper's development environment. We analyze all such vulnerabilities\nindividually and classify them into five groups based on their status in Vyper.\nTo the best of our knowledge, our survey is the first attempt to study security\nvulnerabilities in Vyper.\n