Commit ae339333 by Leo Arias Committed by Leo Arias

Add warning about trading tokens before refundable crowdsale goal is met (#1452)

This attack was reported in https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-solidity/issues/877

(cherry picked from commit 80458ebc)
parent 1a4009f8
......@@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ import "../../payment/escrow/RefundEscrow.sol";
* @title RefundableCrowdsale
* @dev Extension of Crowdsale contract that adds a funding goal, and
* the possibility of users getting a refund if goal is not met.
* WARNING: note that if you allow tokens to be traded before the goal
* is met, then an attack is possible in which the attacker purchases
* tokens from the crowdsale and when they sees that the goal is
* unlikely to be met, they sell their tokens (possibly at a discount).
* The attacker will be refunded when the crowdsale is finalized, and
* the users that purchased from them will be left with worthless
* tokens. There are many possible ways to avoid this, like making the
* the crowdsale inherit from PostDeliveryCrowdsale, or imposing
* restrictions on token trading until the crowdsale is finalized.
* This is being discussed in
* https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-solidity/issues/877
* This contract will be updated when we agree on a general solution
* for this problem.
*/
contract RefundableCrowdsale is FinalizableCrowdsale {
using SafeMath for uint256;
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