Smart contracts use blockchain technology to create a digital ledger that records all transactions. The terms of the contract are encoded into the code, and the execution of the contract is automatic ...

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 ...

When you hear the term “blockchain,” the first word that jumps to mind is likely “cryptocurrency.” While this association is certainly fair, it glosses over an even more powerful concept, one without ...

No doubt, blockchain adoption and deployment has been overly hyped, but the distributed ledger technology will ultimately prove useful – and even transformational – to many industries, including ...

If 2020 has taught us anything, it's that the world is growing increasingly unpredictable. Be it from pandemics, market swings, wildfires, and more, we’ve gone through global shocks that we never ...

You have probably heard that blockchain technology and "smart contracts" are going to revolutionize our lives. But there’s a problem: before smart contracts can do anything really useful, they need a ...

In a centralized system, stopping an attack can be as easy as flipping a switch. However, with decentralized setups like ...

Global supply chains move goods across borders every day. Raw materials move from producers to manufacturers, and finished ...

"Pact 3.0 generally makes available the features that makes hybrid blockchains a reality. ... We now have the smart contract language for hybrid blockchains." That's Stuart Popejoy, the former ...

Smart contracts, like the ones that power Ethereum’s ecosystem, can be seen as a simple form of machine intelligence, and one academic is convinced we are giving them far too much responsibility. Adam ...