Smart contract bugs remain the leading cause of DeFi security breaches.Private key theft now accounts for a significant share of crypto losses.S ...

Smart contracts are based on one of the core ideas behind modern blockchain technology. They are a way to automate a wide range of crypto transactions and processes without relying on intermediaries ...

A smart contract is an application that uses blockchain and acts as a digital contract supported by a set of rules. Smart contracts are not considered contracts in the legal sense in most ...

AI is accelerating smart contract hacks and shortening audit shelf life. $1.32B lost in H1 2026. The Silicon Review reports ...

Imagine buying a house without lawyers, transferring money across continents without banks, or paying only for the exact seconds an AI system works for you—all automatically, instantly, and without ...

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.

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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 ...

Last November, a user accidentally froze around 514,000 ETH (worth approx. $155 million) in Parity, a popular Ethereum wallet. The culprit was a bug in the wallet’s software, which the user in ...

Dr Gideon Greenspan is the founder and CEO of Coin Sciences, the company behind the MultiChain platform for private blockchains. In this opinion piece, Greenspan discusses blockchain-enabled smart ...