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Mi-Cho-Coq, a Framework for Certifying Tezos Smart Contracts

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Tezos is a blockchain launched in June 2018. It is written in OCaml and supports smart contracts. Its smart contract language is called Michelson and it has been designed with formal verification in mind. In this article, we present Mi-Cho-Coq, a Coq framework for verifying the functional correctness of Michelson smart contracts. As a case study, we detail the certification of a Multisig contract with the Mi-Cho-Coq framework.

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    i.e. the parameter of the contract is a sum type branching two elements, cf. Sect. 2.2.

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    Bruno Bernardo, Raphaël Cauderlier, Zhenlei Hu, Basile Pesin & Julien Tesson

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Bernardo, B., Cauderlier, R., Hu, Z., Pesin, B., Tesson, J. (2020). Mi-Cho-Coq, a Framework for Certifying Tezos Smart Contracts. In: Sekerinski, E., et al. Formal Methods. FM 2019 International Workshops. FM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54994-7_28

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