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Coalition Logic for Specification and Verification of Smart Contract Upgrades

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It has been argued in the literature that logics for reasoning about strategic abilities, and in particular coalition logic (CL), are well-suited for verification of properties of smart contracts on a blockchain. Smart contracts, however, can be upgraded by providing a new version of a contract on a new block. In this paper, we extend one of the recent formalisms for reasoning about updating CL models with a temporal modality connecting a newer version of a model to the previous one. In such a way, we make a step towards verification of properties of smart contracts with upgrades. We also discuss some properties of the resulting logic and the complexity of its model checking problem.

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  • Coalition logic
  • Smart contracts
  • Blockchain
  • Model checking

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Notes

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    We will sometime use U to denote both positive and negative updates.

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    \(\pi _1\) and \(\pi _2\) are left and right projections of an ordered pair.

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  1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Rustam Galimullin & Thomas Ågotnes

  2. Southwest University, Chongqing, China

    Thomas Ågotnes

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  3. Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France

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    Victor Sanchez-Anguix

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Galimullin, R., Ågotnes, T. (2023). Coalition Logic for Specification and Verification of Smart Contract Upgrades. In: Aydoğan, R., Criado, N., Lang, J., Sanchez-Anguix, V., Serramia, M. (eds) PRIMA 2022: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13753. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21203-1_34

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