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 ...

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 ...

What is a smart contract? This is a question that, these days, has become impossible to answer without starting the digital equivalent of a bar fight. The minute that term is thrown out in a ...

New laws are a clear indication that smart contracts will be impactful. Smart contracts are tied to the emerging blockchain technology platform. Smart contracts could automatically execute ...

A smart contract is an application that uses blockchain and acts as a digital contract supported by a set of rules. Smart contracts are not considered contracts in the legal sense in most ...

Smart contracts are potentially one of the most useful tools associated with blockchain, and they can enable the transfer of everything from bitcoin and fiat currency to goods transported around the ...

Olivier Rikken is manager, public speaker and thought leader on digital disruption, blockchain and business process management at Axveco, a boutique consultancy firm headquartered in Amsterdam. In ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned of the dangers of ‘smart contract risk’ in DeFi protocols in an interview to mark Ethereum's fifth birthday. Buterin also warned users not to ‘risk their ...

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