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 insurance industry is on the verge of a monumental shift, driven by the integration of blockchain technology and smart contracts. Bob Brzyski For life and health insurance agents and agency owners ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have developed a benchmarking framework to assess whether artificial intelligence (AI) can generate decentralized ...

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.

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 ...

The latest “Clear Crypto Podcast” unpacks how blockchain helps solve critical challenges in agriculture, from supply chain transparency to land ownership and food waste. Blockchain and agriculture ...

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, ...

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 ...