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 ...

Aashika’s near two decades stint in business and finance journalism has led her to report, write, edit and lead teams covering public investing, private investing and personal investing both in India ...

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 ...

Hathor, a layer-1 blockchain, introduces Nano Contracts, a smart contract platform with built-in MEV and front-running protection. The introduction of decentralized applications (DApps) opened up new ...

With more suppliers adopting digitization, traditional contractual agreements in the supply chain space are being superseded by new arrangements known as smart contracts, a type of self-executing ...

Smart contracts have long been the backbone of blockchain’s promise. These self-executing programs run exactly as coded, without downtime, fraud, or third-party interference—at least in theory. But in ...

The insurance industry is on the verge of a monumental shift, driven by the integration of blockchain technology and smart contracts. Bob Brzyski For life and health insurance agents and agency owners ...

A research paper published this week outlined a new paradigm to bring Ethereum-style smart contracts to the Bitcoin network. BitVM, as it is known, was laid out in an Oct. 9 whitepaper by Robin Linus, ...