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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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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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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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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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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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When entering into a tontine, the value of the tontine for the participant highly depends on its composition (e.g. the age of the participants, the amount invested by each of them already invested in the tontine). However, participants subscribe to the scheme without any knowledge of either the composition of the tontine, or, in some cases, its exact ...
Mohamad Hassan Abou Daya, Carole Bernard
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Super-optimization of Smart Contracts
Smart contracts are programs deployed on a blockchain. They are executed for a monetary fee paid in gas—a clear optimization target for smart contract compilers.
Albert Albiol, Elvira María +4 more
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An Elasticity Framework for Smart Contracts [PDF]
Smart contracts provide computation facilities to blockchains, enabling many application scenarios where au tomatic analysis and complex transactions can be performed. However, in situations where the flow of information is variable and there are time,
Dustdar, Schahram +10 more
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