A fintech company is planning to deploy a smart contract for automated dividend distribution. The team is new to blockchain and wants to understand the main categories of risks they should plan for. Which set of risks is the most comprehensive?

Only operational risks like oracle dependency and upgradeability

Only legal risks such as jurisdiction and enforceability

Security vulnerabilities, operational dependencies, and legal uncertainties

Only security vulnerabilities such as reentrancy and overflow

A team is developing a smart contract for a token sale. They want to ensure the contract's logic is mathematically correct and free of bugs. Which approach is the most rigorous?

Use formal verification to prove the contract's properties

Run a testnet deployment and simulate user interactions

Conduct a code audit by a single auditor

Use a bug bounty program to find vulnerabilities

A smart contract is used to automate a financial service that is subject to anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Which legal risk is most directly relevant?

Compliance with financial regulations

A fintech startup plans to launch a smart contract that tokenizes real estate shares for investors in multiple countries. The legal team notes that the contract's code is immutable and that different jurisdictions have conflicting securities regulations. What is the most important legal risk to address before deployment?

The possibility that the blockchain network might become congested and delay transactions.

The risk that the smart contract cannot be upgraded if regulations change.

Jurisdictional uncertainty about which country's securities laws apply to the tokenized shares.

The risk that the smart contract code may contain a bug that allows unauthorized transfers.

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Smart Contract Risks BFC Practice Questions (Page 8)

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36application · medium
A fintech company is planning to deploy a smart contract for automated dividend distribution. The team is new to blockchain and wants to understand the main categories of risks they should plan for. Which set of risks is the most comprehensive?
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37application · medium
A team is developing a smart contract for a token sale. They want to ensure the contract's logic is mathematically correct and free of bugs. Which approach is the most rigorous?
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38foundation · easy
A smart contract is used to automate a financial service that is subject to anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Which legal risk is most directly relevant?
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39application · medium
A fintech startup plans to launch a smart contract that tokenizes real estate shares for investors in multiple countries. The legal team notes that the contract's code is immutable and that different jurisdictions have conflicting securities regulations. What is the most important legal risk to address before deployment?
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40foundation · easy
Which smart contract vulnerability allows an attacker to repeatedly call a function before the contract updates its state, potentially draining funds?
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Questions 36–40

A fintech company is planning to deploy a smart contract for automated dividend distribution. The team is new to blockchain and wants to understand the main categories of risks they should plan for. Which set of risks is the most comprehensive?

A team is developing a smart contract for a token sale. They want to ensure the contract's logic is mathematically correct and free of bugs. Which approach is the most rigorous?

A smart contract is used to automate a financial service that is subject to anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Which legal risk is most directly relevant?

Which smart contract vulnerability allows an attacker to repeatedly call a function before the contract updates its state, potentially draining funds?

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