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 ...

The "From Blockchain and NFTs to Smart Contracts: Understanding the Technology and the Law (Nov 5, 2026)" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The world of blockchain extends far ...

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 ...

Kustodia, a programmable escrow platform for Latin America's high-value economy, today announced the public launch of its smart contract escrow service in Mexico. Buyers and sellers can now protect ...

Northern Trust's use of smart contracts is part of a trend. JPMorgan Chase has incorporated them in its blockchain projects, and just this week PayPal integrated them in its new stablecoin project.

Technical weaknesses in smart contracts, such as reentrancy and flash loan exploits, have led to substantial financial losses ...

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 ...

Developer teams behind the Tezos blockchain unveiled "Tezos X," a set of technological upgrades they say could bring a "huge boost in performance, composability and interoperability." The roadmap, ...

Stellar wants to take on smart-contract blockchains like Ethereum with its new Soroban project. This could, in theory, give a boost to the XLM token, assuming the project gains traction. A new entrant ...

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that records transactions across a network of computers. Unlike older databases, blockchain runs without a central figure. Transactions are encrypted, ...