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Translation certification for smart contracts
Science of Computer Programming, 2022 Compiler correctness is an old problem, but with the emergence of smart contracts on blockchains that problem presents itself in a new light. Smart contracts are self-contained pieces of software that control assets, which are often of high financial value, in an adversarial environment and, once committed to the blockchain, they cannot be changed ...
Jacco O. G. Krijnen +3 more
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The Economics of Smart Contracts
CoRR, 2019 Ethereum is a distributed blockchain that can execute smart contracts, which inter-communicate and perform transactions automatically. The execution of smart contracts is paid in the form of gas, which is a monetary unit used in the Ethereum blockchain.
Kirk Baird +4 more
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The Legal Regime of Smart Contracts in Public Procurement
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2022 This article attempts to critically review the applications of smart contracts in public procurement. The literature on the topic is characterized by an emphasis on potential advantages and uses of this emerging technology, while it lacks in the ...
Nadia-Ariadna Sava, Dacian Dragoș
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Survey on Vulnerabilities in Blockchain’s Smart Contracts
JISR on Computing, 2022 Trustworthy smart contracts is usually challenging due to the multifaceted semantics of essential domain-specific languages and their testability. A vulnerability in smart contracts possibly comprises numerous code-security and may allow an attacker to ...
Huma Jamshed
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Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Smart Contracts: A Systematic Review
Eurasian Journal of Management & Social Sciences, 2023 As one of the fundamental technologies of blockchain, smart contracts have become one of popular and indispensable for certain businesses. Smart contracts have been introduced by Nick Szabo in 1997.
Omar Farouk Al Mashhour +2 more
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Smart Contracts Used in the Blockchain: A Juristic Stud
دراسات: علوم الشريعة والقانون, 2022 Objectives: Clarify the ruling on forming smart contracts using the blockchain technology, and the related conditions and pillars of legality. Methods: A descriptive approach to describe smart contracts and the pillars on which they are based, an ...
Saba mohammed mostafa Alboul +1 more
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, 2022 AbstractThe emergence of crypto currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have shown the value in decentralized technologies. The idea of having 24/7 access to programmable money peaked the interest in the field, and as a by-product, came the realization that the same core technologies that enable programmable dog money, can enable highly-available DNS ...
Luis Angel D. Bathen, Divyesh Jadav
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İstanbul Hukuk Mecmuası, 2022 Smart contracts have emerged as an important technological development, when considering the fast pace with which technology is developing. Nowadays the digital architecture of smart contracts automates the fulfillment of contractual obligations and has ...
Mükerrem Onur Başar
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On the Practicality of a Smart Contract PKI [PDF]
2019 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPCON), 2019 Public key infrastructures (PKIs) are one of the main building blocks for securing communications over the Internet. Currently, PKIs are under the control of centralized authorities, which is problematic as evidenced by numerous incidents where they have been compromised.
Christos Patsonakis +3 more
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Adding concurrency to smart contracts [PDF]
Distributed Computing, 2017 Modern cryptocurrency systems, such as Ethereum, permit complex financial transactions through scripts called smart contracts. These smart contracts are executed many, many times, always without real concurrency. First, all smart contracts are serially executed by miners before appending them to the blockchain.
Thomas D. Dickerson +3 more
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