Bitcoin was invented to replace banks, but underlying technology - blockchain – proved it could replace almost any intermediary. It did not stop there; now that we had digital money, we could do ...

Smart contract technology is booming with the release of Ethereum and programming languages such as Solidity and Serpent, that have made contracts much simpler to build and deploy. The idea has been ...

Smart contracts are the worker bees of blockchain technology. Most of the programs that run on blockchains–ranging from financial exchanges to games–are decentralized applications (dapps) that are ...

Smart contracts automate transactions on blockchains, cutting out middlemen and reducing fees. Decentralized finance uses smart contracts for trading, lending, and more without traditional banks.

For years, “code is law” served as the rallying cry of a new digital frontier — a promise that rules, once written, would enforce themselves like clockwork. In the early architecture of Web3, smart ...

Smart contracts will have to contain a kill switch under a revision of the European Union’s Data Act published by the bloc’s member states on Monday. The EU’s Council, which represents national ...

Despite being groundbreaking, smart contracts are not impervious to flaws that malevolent parties could exploit. Inadequate input validation is a prevalent weakness that enables attackers to affect ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For years, the blockchain industry has been defined by the excitement around smart contracts, or tamper-proof digital agreements that ...

What if you could cut your mortgage rate, make it easier to update your will, and ensure that your buddy was never able to weasel out of paying up on a bet? That and much more is the promise of smart ...

When it comes to cryptocurrencies and blockchains, there's a lot of talk about smart contracts. But what are they, exactly? The overnight ascension of cryptocurrencies has thrust an entirely new ...