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This paper explores the connection between software contracts and smart contracts. Despite the assonance, these two terms denote quite different concepts: software contracts are logical properties of software components, while smart contracts are ...
Massimo Bartoletti
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A Secure Smart Contract Generation Method Based on Timed Automata [PDF]
Blockchain is a decentralized computing paradigm with promising application prospects in many fields. Smart contracts are the key to blockchain applications; however, security issues with smart contracts often occur, occasionally leading to significant ...
Yang LIU, Shengjie ZHANG
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What Do We Mean by Smart Contracts? Open Challenges in Smart Contracts
Contracts regulate most of our professional and personal life: they enable modern society to operate. The term “Smart Contract,” coined in 1994 by Nick Szabo, means different things to different people. This editorial perspective explores the meanings of
Maria G. Vigliotti
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An Organized Repository of Ethereum Smart Contracts’ Source Codes and Metrics
Many empirical software engineering studies show that there is a need for repositories where source codes are acquired, filtered and classified. During the last few years, Ethereum block explorer services have emerged as a popular project to explore and ...
Giuseppe Antonio Pierro +2 more
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A Review on Recent Progress of Smart Contract in Blockchain
A smart contract, in form, is represented as a piece of computer program code involving related commercial transactions and algorithms. Essentially, this is the computerization of the pre-agreed contract between the participants.
Canghai Wu +4 more
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This study investigates the influence of blockchain and smart contracts on partners’ trust, increasing visibility, competitiveness, and environmental performance when implemented in manufacturing supply chains.
Ping-Kuo Chen, Qiu-Rui He, Shiping Chu
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Smart Contracts and International Trade: European Legal Strategies for Managing Challenges
Objective: the automation inherent in smart contracts makes them an attractive tool for global trade applications, especially for the automation of transactions. The prospects foreseeable will significantly impact international economic relations and the
Th. D. Lamappulage Donn
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Survey of Ethereum Smart Contract Fuzzing Technology Research [PDF]
Smart contracts running on the blockchain platform completethe establishment and automatic execution of a greements between different participants,and also manage a large number of digital assets.The frequent exposure of smart contract loopholes has ...
HUANG Song, DU Jin-hu, WANG Xing-ya, SUN Jin-lei
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ScanAT: Identification of Bytecode-Only Smart Contracts With Multiple Attribute Tags
Smart contracts on blockchain systems implement business logic and directly handle important assets. Although smart contracts play these critical roles, it is hard for users interacting with the system to understand the real behavior of the deployed ...
Yuntae Kim, Dohyun Pak, Jonghyup Lee
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Smart Contracts in the New Era of Contract Law
This essay examines whether smart contract innovation is capable of displacing the orthodox adherence to traditional contracts. This examination is underpinned by an analysis of the legality of smart contracts, through which it is exemplified that smart ...
Alexandros A. Papantoniou
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