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What’s the utility of a so-called ‘smart contract’ if its enforceability in traditional legal systems is a grey area? Most would agree that thorny questions such as this pose a major constraint on the ...

Private keys protect individual assets. Losing control means losing funds with no recovery. Smart contract audits secure protocols. Weak contracts can expose entire platforms to attacks. Both are ...

As decentralized applications continue to grow in the blockchain environment, Smart Contract Vulnerability Scanning has become a core concept for building trust in decentralized finance and Web3.

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 ...

What is smart contract testing? The process of methodically assessing and validating the performance, security and functionality of smart contracts — self-executing agreements with the provisions of ...

According to famed decentralized finance (DeFi) detective Zachxbt, 31 nonfungible token (NFT) projects may be at risk due to “suspicious code.” In a lengthy Twitter thread published Tuesday, the DeFi ...

An application on Ethereum, Solana or other programmable blockchain. Smart contracts mostly govern financial arrangements; for example, they enable new cryptocurrencies to be established, and they ...