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Dex - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Dex level of the Ethernaut: draining a token through price manipulation in the DEX swap formula.

  • DeFi
  • Price Manipulation
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
  • Smart Contracts
  • Ethereum
  • Web3
  • CTF
  • Writeup
Friday, June 5, 2026 | 4 minutes Read
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Dex Two - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Dex Two level of the Ethernaut: emptying both tokens by swapping an arbitrary attacker-controlled token.

  • DeFi
  • Price Manipulation
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
  • Smart Contracts
  • Ethereum
  • Web3
  • CTF
  • Writeup
Friday, June 5, 2026 | 3 minutes Read
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Shop - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Shop level of the Ethernaut: buying for less by returning different prices across two calls to a view function.

  • Interfaces
  • View Functions
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
  • Smart Contracts
  • Ethereum
  • Web3
  • CTF
  • Writeup
Friday, June 5, 2026 | 2 minutes Read
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Denial - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Denial level of the Ethernaut: blocking withdrawals by consuming all forwarded gas in a malicious receive function.

  • Denial of Service
  • Gas
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
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  • Ethereum
  • Web3
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Thursday, June 4, 2026 | 3 minutes Read
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Alien Codex - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Alien Codex level of the Ethernaut: overwriting the owner slot through a dynamic array length underflow.

  • Storage Layout
  • Array Underflow
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
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  • Ethereum
  • Web3
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Sunday, May 31, 2026 | 3 minutes Read
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Magic Number - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Magic Number level of the Ethernaut: crafting a tiny contract in raw EVM bytecode that returns the magic value 42.

  • EVM Bytecode
  • Opcodes
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
  • Smart Contracts
  • Ethereum
  • Web3
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Saturday, May 30, 2026 | 4 minutes Read
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Naught Coin - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Naught Coin level of the Ethernaut: bypassing the ERC20 timelock by moving tokens through transferFrom and an allowance.

  • ERC20
  • Ethernaut
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  • Ethereum
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Friday, May 29, 2026 | 3 minutes Read
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Preservation - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Preservation level of the Ethernaut: hijacking the contract via a delegatecall storage-slot collision.

  • delegatecall
  • Storage Layout
  • Ethernaut
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Friday, May 29, 2026 | 3 minutes Read
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Recovery - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Recovery level of the Ethernaut: recomputing a lost contract address from the deployer nonce with RLP encoding.

  • Contract Address
  • RLP
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
  • Smart Contracts
  • Ethereum
  • Web3
  • CTF
  • Writeup
Friday, May 29, 2026 | 2 minutes Read
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Gatekeeper Two - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Gatekeeper Two level of the Ethernaut: clearing the extcodesize and XOR gates from within a constructor.

  • Assembly
  • extcodesize
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
  • Smart Contracts
  • Ethereum
  • Web3
  • CTF
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Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 2 minutes Read
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Gatekeeper One - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Gatekeeper One level of the Ethernaut: passing the gas, caller and key gates with careful masking and gas tuning.

  • Gas
  • msg.sender
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
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  • Ethereum
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Sunday, May 10, 2026 | 4 minutes Read
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Privacy - The Ethernaut - Writeup

Writeup for the Privacy level of the Ethernaut: unlocking the contract by reading a private key straight from its storage layout.

  • Storage Layout
  • Ethernaut
  • Solidity
  • Smart Contracts
  • Ethereum
  • Web3
  • CTF
  • Writeup
Monday, May 4, 2026 | 2 minutes Read
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