Why does my AI-written smart contract ship with no properties for a verifier to check?
机会
Formal verification of smart contracts requires invariants and pre/post conditions describing what the code is supposed to do. AI agents write Solidity fluently but produce no property specifications alongside the code; auditors still write those specs by hand, when they write them at all. PropertyGPT, which won the Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS 2025, was the most serious attempt to generate specs automatically from code using LLMs. It reached only 80% recall against expert-written properties, leaving critical invariants missing and contracts going to mainnet without a complete specification. No production development toolchain generates property specifications as a standard step, which means formal verifiers like the Certora Prover are rarely applied even when the code itself is AI-generated.
为什么重要
Automatically generating correct, complete property specs alongside AI-written contracts is what finally closes the loop between AI-assisted coding and machine-verified contract correctness.
我如何评估机会
机会评分是我的个人判断,而非量化指标:痛苦程度、发生频率,以及当前解决方案的匮乏程度。分数越高,意味着我认为越值得去构建。
出现时造成的痛苦程度。
人们实际遇到它的频率。
当前针对它的优质工具有多匮乏。