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Towards a Secure Blockchain Ecosystem: Current Vulnerabilities and Future Directions in Smart Contract Security [PDF]

open access: yesITM Web of Conferences
As a distributed shared transaction ledger, blockchain technology has the characteristics of decentralization, immutable, irreversible and traceable, and is changing the inherent model of traditional industries.
Zhao Boya
doaj   +1 more source

Effectively Generating Vulnerable Transaction Sequences in Smart Contracts with Reinforcement Learning-guided Fuzzing

open access: yesInternational Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2022
As computer programs run on top of blockchain, smart contracts have proliferated a myriad of decentralized applications while bringing security vulnerabilities, which may cause huge financial losses.
J. Su   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Contracts Ex Machina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Smart contracts are self-executing digital transactions using decentralized cryptographic mechanisms for enforcement. They were theorized more than twenty years ago, but the recent development of Bitcoin and blockchain technologies has rekindled ...
Kevin Werbach, Nicolas Cornell
core   +1 more source

Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

MECAT: Memory-Safe Smart Contracts in ARM TrustZone

open access: yesIEEE Access
A smart contract is a program executed on a blockchain. However, once the smart contract is deployed on the blockchain, it becomes visible to all participants and remains immutable.
Seonghwan Park   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Art of The Scam: Demystifying Honeypots in Ethereum Smart Contracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Modern blockchains, such as Ethereum, enable the execution of so-called smart contracts - programs that are executed across a decentralised network of nodes.
State, Radu   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Light‐Responsive Enzyme‐Loaded Nanoparticles for Tunable Adhesion and Mechanical Wound Contraction

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a photoactivatable enzyme‐loaded mesoporous nanoparticle system (MPDA_PaTy) that enables light‐triggered tunable tissue adhesion and facilitates mechanical wound contraction. Controlled enzymatic crosslinking at tissue or hydrogel interfaces allows on‐demand adhesion.
Junghyeon Ko   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

SMART CONTRACTS: SECURITY ISSUES AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IN BRAZIL

open access: yesInternational Journal of Law in Changing World, 2022
This study aims to describe how smart contracts are made and the legal certainty of using them on business contracts. For this, the study concepted the smart contract, as well its characteristics and the difference between smart contract and e-contract.
Luane Silva Nascimento   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bio‐Friendly Artificial Muscles Based on Carbon Nanotube Yarns and Eutectogel Derivatives

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Solid‐state artificial muscles based on coiled commercial carbon nanotube yarns coated with eutectogel derivatives exhibit unipolar actuation through selective ion intercalation. Combining polyanionic and polycationic gels enables enhanced contractile stroke and high energy density.
Gabriela Ananieva   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Recognition and Regulation of Smart Contracts in South Africa

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
Our understanding of contracts continues to evolve. Electronic contracts that have typically taken the form of shrink-wrap, click-wrap, web-wrap, scroll-wrap, multi-wrap and sign-in-wrap agreements have undergone further developments with the ...
Michele van Eck, Fafa Delight Agbeko
doaj   +1 more source

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