Coinbase’s Base smart contracts contain over 34k vulnerabilities, data shows

Base network saw over 34,000 high-risk vulnerabilities in its smart contracts, including malicious boolean checks and library tampering, according to new data. Blockchain networks face growing security challenges as malicious actors exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts, with Coinbase’s Base network…

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Cardano Sees Massive Growth in Smart Contracts as ADA Bulls Target Triumph Over Ethereum

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Stellar Starts Phased Rollout of 'Soroban' Smart Contracts

The "Protocol 20" upgrade, which adds support for Ethereum-style smart contracts to the decade-old payments-focused blockchain, had been delayed by three weeks due to precautions after a bug was found.

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66% Of Top Smart Contracts On Base Have One Big Problem

14/21, or 66%, of the top gas-consuming smart contracts on Base, a layer-2 platform for building and deploying smart contracts, are unverified. According to Token Terminal data on October 24, the same contracts are some of the most actively used, reading from gas fee trends over the last month.

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Bitcoin Spark’s Integration of BNB Smart Contracts and AVAX Fast Transactions Takes the Market by Storm

Smart contracts are a great way of automation in the DeFi industry. These reforms have greatly influenced the growth of blockchain technology by improving its scalability and interoperability. Smart contracts are available on established networks such as BNB and Avalanche, which borrowed the concept from Ethereum.

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Guide to Writing and Using Smart Contracts

In blockchain technology, smart contracts have become a transformative force. The way transactions are carried out is about to undergo a revolution thanks to these self-executing contracts encoded with predefined conditions.

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We need to fundamentally change how smart contracts operate

Smart contracts should be viewed as “proof-of-concept” rather than as critical for universal adoption. That may mean exploring alternatives.

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Astar Network, a Polkadot parachain, launches Smart Contracts 2.0

Astar Network is set to launch its Smart Contracts 2.0, the WebAssembly (WASM) smart contracts, on the mainnet on April 6

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Astar Network to launch smart contracts 2.0 on Mainnet

Astar Network, one of the first parachains to come to the Polkadot ecosystem, has announced that it will launch Smart Contracts 2. 0, the WebAssembly (WASM) smart contracts that extend the Web3 functionality of EVM, on the mainnet at 14:00 UTC on Thursday, April 6, 2023.

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Astar Network’s Smart Contracts 2.0 to launch on Mainnet on April 6th

Key takeaways Astar Network’s Smart Contracts 2. 0 is to launch on the mainnet on Thursday. Smart Contracts 2. 0 would allow Astar Network to support both the EVM and the WASM VM smart contracts on the mainnet.

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Chainlink’s roadmap update pushes its value up, can it retain momentum?

Chainlink LINK/USD is a decentralized blockchain platform that enables smart contracts to access real-world data, such as data feeds, APIs, and even banking systems. This is done through the usage of Oracles, which find, verify and submit the real-world information within the blockchain-based smart contracts.

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Cryptopedia: Learn the basics of smart contracts and how they work

Cointelegraph explains what smart contracts are and how this blockchain-based technology changes the way transactions are made.

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The 3 Most Popular Smart Contracts Explained

Smart contracts hold the key to the crypto economy, enabling the transfer of value and a wide range of financial applications across blockchains such as Ethereum. But what are smart contracts exactly, and how do they work? That’s what we’re about to discuss…  In actual fact, smart contracts are not all that dissimilar to traditional […]

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Ripple Liquidity Hub for the Enterprise

The world is fast moving towards a crypto-first future. One in which every company will have a strategy for how to leverage crypto, tokenized assets, smart contracts and more to transfer value and fuel a rising tide of global digital transactions and commerce.

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IOTA Steps Into Ethereum and Cardano’s Territory With Launch Of Beta Smart Contracts

IOTA Foundation has launched, in beta testing, new feeless, easy to program, and scalable smart contracts for the IOTA blockchain. It is a breathtaking moment for the IOTA community because the blockchain had no support for smart contracts before, but also a potentially great alternative to Ethereum and Cardano smart contracts. The smart contracts can […]

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IOTA launches beta smart contracts; argues it's not an 'Ethereum killer'

IOTA, a smart contracts platform redesigning the distributed ledger technology, has released the beta version of the network’s new smart contracts solution. With the launch, the Internet of ThingThe post IOTA launches beta smart contracts; argues it's not an 'Ethereum killer' appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Smart contracts are coming to Bitcoin through Dfinity’s Internet Computer

Efforts to expand Bitcoin’s functionality for payments, smart contracts and Web 3.0 are well underway, opening the door to wider mainstream adoption.

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Cardano Sees Over 40,000 Smart Contracts Deployed 4 Days After Alonzo HFC, How This Affects The Price

Smart contracts have become a reality on the Cardano network after September 12th. After the Alonzo Hard Fork Combinator launch, developers could now go ahead and start creating smart contracts on the ecosystem.

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Iowa Senate Introduces Blockchain Bill to Regulate Smart Contracts as Law

Iowa is the latest state in the U. S. to introduce a bill targeting blockchain technology and smart contracts. The bill aims to level the playing field between smart contracts and traditional contracts.

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Survey: Large Number of Yield Farmers Can’t Read Smart Contracts Despite High Risk

A new Coingecko survey has found that a large number of yield farmers do not know how to read smart contracts despite claiming they understand the risks that come with such investments. According to the survey, which polled 1,347 people, around 40% of decentralized finance (defi) users cannot comprehend the smart contracts they use for […] The post Survey: Large Number of Yield Farmers Can’t Read Smart Contracts Despite High Risk appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Yield farmers make 500% returns, but most can't read smart contracts

A CoinGecko survey has found that the majority of yield farmers do not understand the smart contracts underpinning the DeFi protocols they use.

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FORSAGE Members Made Over US $48M Already

Decentralized marketing – a revolutionary technology based on smart contracts that guarantee reliability and transparency.

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Vitalik Buterin Takes Part in Ceremony Launching Zcash and Monero Like Smart Contracts

After a year on testnet, a London based team of coders has finally launched a set of contracts known as Aztec. The contracts use zero knowledge proofs to create complete... The post Vitalik Buterin Takes Part in Ceremony Launching Zcash and Monero Like Smart Contracts appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Behind the Scenes of TON: Lessons Learned on Deploying Smart Contracts

An insider’s view on how to deploy smart contracts to the Telegram Open Network

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Zilliqa smart contracts will utilize Chainlink decentralized oracle network

Zilliqa smart contracts will utilize Chainlink decentralized oracle network » CryptoNinjas Zilliqa, the high-throughput public blockchain platform, has now announced it is integrating with Chainlink, a decentralized oracle network that connects smart contracts with real-world data, to enable an ecosystem of data-driven smart contracts.

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Malta Set to Use Blockchain Smart Contracts to Initiate and Register Rent Remittance

Coinspeaker Malta Set to Use Blockchain Smart Contracts to Initiate and Register Rent RemittanceMalta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat discloses that rent contracts are to be seamlessly initiated unto a transparent and immutable blockchain hyperledger through smart contracts.

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Trillions of Smart Legal Contracts May Be Expect Says Senior Judge

One of the most senior judge in Britain has stated smart contracts are coming and the English legal system has to lay the foundations for smart contracts to flourish. “We...

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Crypto Assets And Smart Contracts Will Eventually Enter Into Social Fabric, UK Lawyer Affirms

Sir Geoffery Vos, Chancellor of the High Court in the United Kingdom, has recently talked about how cryptocurrencies and smart contracts are inevitable, but they should be regulated in order to provide society with the best results.

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Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts Will For Sure Enter Into Society, Says Senior UK Lawyer

According to the Chancellor of the High Court, both crypto and smart contracts will ultimately “pass the starting line” in the U.K.

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A quick guide to understanding blockchain smart contracts

Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. ‘Smart contracts’ is a term that gets thrown about quite often in the blockchain world, but there seems to be some confusion about what they are – and how they work.

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Smart Contracts Are No Problem for the World’s Legal Systems, so Long as They Behave Like Legal Contracts

"In every conceptual and practical sense that matters, we believe that smart contracts are contracts. It will simply take a while for the world to become as familiar with them as they are with cocktail napkins.

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The Subscription Model Comes to Smart Contracts

A new Ethereum Improvement Proposal, 1337, has now brought the subscription model to smart contracts whereby you agree to pay say $10 a month and the payment is automatically taken... The post The Subscription Model Comes to Smart Contracts appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Azerbaijan Eyes Blockchain And Smart Contracts Use In Legal System And Utilities

Azerbaijan has revealed plans to implement smart contracts and blockchain technology in its justice system and housing industry. The chairman of an internet forum made the plans public. He said that introducing smart contracts into the justice system had some people interested.

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Smart Contracts And Their Roles In Enterprise Business Blockchain Projects

Smart contracts are fast becoming one of the most in-demand features of blockchain technology. The benefits are huge and its applicability, almost endless. They can be used for everything from legal contracts to funds release from an escrow account and even regular daily events like locking a defaulting tenant out of an apartment. This is […]

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How Ricardian Smart Contracts Enable Blockchain Adoption

Ricardian smart contracts offer some of the legal and compliance factors that prevent businesses from adopting smart contracts. We explain how they work. The post How Ricardian Smart Contracts Enable Blockchain Adoption appeared first on CoinCentral.

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PR: W12 – a Platform Raising New Generation of Smart Contracts – Winner at the World Blockchain Forum (NYC)

W12 offers a completely new approach to thedevelopment of blockchain technology,smart contracts and the crypto economy, the adoptionof which can massively affectexisting traditional infrastructure in the very near future.

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What are Smart Contracts and How Do They Work? (Examples & Challenges)

Smart contracts are a new technology that enables automatic negotiation, fulfillment and execution of agreement terms in a blockchain environment.

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i-chain ICO

i-chain proposes a common Insurance Platform which will simplify insurers to implement blockchain solutions, resolve scalability, expertise and regulation issues. Platform would make it possible for individual insurers to compete for customers, offering a range of products and prices by virtue of the products linked with smart contracts they set up on Platform.

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Hashbon ICO

Hashbon framework is a universal platform for effective building any applications or smart contracts, that work on top of live public blockchains: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash, Zcash, Monero and others. Framework will allow to store information on several blockchains simultaneously for better reliability in automatic and intellectual way, including deciding which blockchain currently offers better fee for storing KB of data.

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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin’s idea of Quadratic voting: Interesting but vulnerable

Blockchain seems like the ideal technology for online voting since they enable smart contracts, which can execute on the block elections autonomously and put an end to election authorities. On May 21st, Vitalik Buterin published on his blog about “Quadratic Voting” [QV].

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What Are Secret Contracts?

Innovation is not hard to come by in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain. Smart contracts are of keen interest to developers all over the world. In the case of the Enigma project, there is a feature known as secret contracts.

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ChainSecurity releases full version of Securify, advanced security scanner for Ethereum

ChainSecurity, a developer of secure blockchain protocols today announced the release of its latest automated security scanner for Ethereum smart contracts. The system is publicly available at https://securify.

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Fruition Token ICO (FTT Coin): Agricultural Investment Opportunity?

Fruition token wants to introduce the Agriculture sector to the blockchain. It will allow everyone to invest in agriculture from any part of the world. Thus, it will cut down the dependence on general volatility in the crypto market.

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Blockvest ICO

Blockvest is a Decentralized Blockchain Based Assets Exchange as well as a cryptocurrency index fund that autonomously tracks the top 30 cryptocurrencies. We call it the Blockvest30 Index. The fund provides an easy way for the average investor to buy multiple cryptocurrencies all at once, without doing all the research.

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What Is A Multidimensional Block Lattice Structure?

Is Multi-dimensional Block Lattice the new Protocol? Smart Contracts supported on a Multidimensional Block Lattice is a game changer. On top of the existing Block Lattice structure, the Smart Contract support allows users to create policies across various assets under the account management.

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Block66 ICO

Block66 is building a new blockchain-enabled marketplace for mortgages. Institutional and private lenders can use the service to offer loans to a wide range of borrowers, introduced by Block66 broker partners.

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Visit VeChain: About $ 1.5 billion Blackhawk for business

In short, founded by former CIO of Louis Vuitton China, Sunny Lu, VeChain hopes to be the first to put “real business” applications on a public blockchain. For the execution of more exotic blockchain features like smart contracts and decentralized applications, Lu argues this is a problem. It also means a higher cost to use

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Solidified Blockchain Smart Contract Security Auditor Gets $500K From innogy New Venture

Solidified, which is a leading code audit company for smart contracts, recently unveiled a $500K investment from innogy New Ventures, LLC. The funds came just before the company held its planned token sale.

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Lisk (LSK) Becomes One Of The Most Undervalued Cryptocurrencies, Down 86% From ATH

Lisk (LSK) may come off as just another altcoin but it is a lot more than that. In fact, it is a smart contracts platform just like Ethereum (ETH). However, it has not performed quite like Ethereum (ETH).

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