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Is there a decompiler available?
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-There is no decompiler to Solidity. This is in principle possible
-to some degree, but for example variable names will be lost and
-great effort will be necessary to make it look similar to
-the original source code.
-
-Bytecode can be decompiled to opcodes, a service that is provided by
+There is no official decompiler to Solidity, but third party security
+company `Comae <https://www.comae.io/>`_ has developed
+`Porosity <https://github.com/comaeio/porosity>`_.
+Because some information like variable names, comments, and
+source code formatting is lost in the compilation process,
+it is not possible to completely recover the original source code.
+
+Bytecode can be disassembled to opcodes, a service that is provided by
several blockchain explorers.
Contracts on the blockchain should have their original source