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In a world where most of the infrastructure behind processes, applications, and agreements relies on centralized entities, smart contracts are a novel concept that fosters trust and removes the need ...

Cointelegraph's Jackson DuMont tackles smart contracts in the latest episode of Cryptopedia. He explains how smart contracts work from the basics and provides examples of how they can be utilized in ...

Mary: What is a smart contract? Mark: The principal aim of the smart contract is a tamper-proof, unambiguous, computable contractual relationship whose payout (or other outcome) automatically occurs ...

One benefit of blockchain includes its ability to harness the power of smart contracts. What is a Smart Contract? Although the term “smart contract” sounds like a legal instrument, a smart contract is ...

More businesses are using automated “smart contracts” to handle transactions. Based on blockchain technology, these contracts execute automatically and are lauded as a way to efficiently digitize ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newly released research shows that top-layer networks, usually trumpeted as the future of bitcoin and ethereum scaling, might actually be capable of more than boosting blockchain transaction volume.

Decentralized networks are becoming commonplace on today's technical landscape, as enterprises seek to write custom applications that solve business problems. Increasingly these are based on smart ...

Bitcoin's capacity is limited. Meanwhile, smart contracts can be resource intensive. So even though Bitcoin has always supported basic smart contract functionality, the two have never been a natural ...