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 ...

Digital innovation is transforming the way agreements are concluded and enforced, with smart contracts emerging as one of the most notable developments. These self-executing agreements, embedded in ...

Smart contracts are talked about quite a lot. What is often ignored, however, is their safety. On one hand, we have self-executing mechanisms that don’t require mediators. On the other, it takes one ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets may have cooled down over the past year, but the technology powering these applications continues to advance. In particular, smart contract platforms that enable ...

A version of this article originally appeared in the Artnet News Pro fall 2022 Intelligence Report. You want to buy a new painting from a midsize gallery? It’s not as simple as it sounds. After you ...

Smart contracts’ value proposition is well-founded, as we discussed in our previous blog post Exploring the Disruptive Potential of Smart Contracts. They bring programmability to a value transfer ...

With more suppliers adopting digitization, traditional contractual agreements in the supply chain space are being superseded by new arrangements known as smart contracts, a type of self-executing ...

Cross-border payments company Ripple announced that it will add smart contracts to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) developer ecosystem. Ripple announced that the move would open various use cases for users, ...

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 ...

Smart contracts may sound like tech jargon, but beneath the name lies a game-changing solution that’s reshaping finance as we know it. The purpose of this piece is to, or at least attempt to anyway, ...