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 ...
Since its introduction in 2014 the Solidity programming language has become the de facto standard to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain network. Solidity is so popular that numerous ...
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 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 ...
Imagine if ordinary people could write smart contracts in their native language. It could bring in “billions of new [blockchain] users.” “Smart contract programming is hard,” said Emin Gün Sirer, ...
We’ve had smart contracts for a long time. Ethereum, the OG smart contract blockchain, is more than a decade old, but the intelligence in smart contracts has always been rather rudimentary. If this, ...
We explain the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and its relevance. An upcoming transition of Ethereum from EVM to Ethereum WebAssembly (eWASM) is projected to attract new developers to the ecosystem.
A new entrant is coming into the already-competitive arena for smart-contract blockchains like Ethereum, and it has a familiar name. Stellar, a nine-year-old payments-focused project that comes with ...