The conversation surrounding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has led to an increased interest in smart contracts. In fact, smart contracts—self-executing agreements—live on blockchain-based ...

Update (25 July, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC): This article has been updated to add commentary by Shantanu Sontakke, security engineer at web3 security firm Zokyo Smart-contract developers and auditors told ...

A smart contract is a self-executing computer program with the terms of the agreement written directly into lines of code. It is stored and replicated on a blockchain network. Smart contracts enable ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Smart contracts are talked about quite a lot. What is often ignored, however, is their ...

Smart contracts’ value proposition is well-founded, as we discussed in our previous blog post Exploring the Disruptive Potential of Smart Contracts. They bring programmability to a value transfer ...

Point-in-time audits fail in composable, adversarial markets. AI-powered continuous assurance using solvers and simulation replaces episodic security checks. AI for coding has achieved product-market ...

In a world where most of the infrastructure behind processes, applications, and agreements relies on centralized entities, smart contracts are a novel concept that fosters trust and removes the need ...

This article was co-authored by Stephen Elam, partner, and Elizabeth Meade, senior associate, Cooke Young and Keidan LLP. What is a smart contract? Smart contracts are computer code that automatically ...

You might be surprised how well your current programming skills translate to the blockchain and Web3. Let's get started with smart contract development using Ethereum and Solidity. For programmers ...