The conversation surrounding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has led to an increased interest in smart contracts. In fact, smart contracts—self-executing agreements—live on blockchain-based ...

The EU’s Data Act could introduce “kill switch” requirements for smart contracts, raising questions about how decentralized projects would handle such a scenario. The Data Act — a contentious piece of ...

March 11, 2025 - A key requirement for mass adoption of fully decentralized blockchain networks is a process through which parties to a transaction can enter into legally binding agreements. The ...

Strategic tech partnerships are accelerating tokenisation, combining blockchain, custody and compliance to transform traditional financial assets ...

For years, “code is law” served as the rallying cry of a new digital frontier — a promise that rules, once written, would enforce themselves like clockwork. In the early architecture of Web3, smart ...

Cross-chain bridge CrossCurve announced Monday that it has suffered a major attack, losing $3 million across multiple networks. The DeFi protocol noted that a vulnerability in its smart contracts had ...

Smart contracts will have to contain a kill switch under a revision of the European Union’s Data Act published by the bloc’s member states on Monday. The EU’s Council, which represents national ...

A smart contract is a self-executing computer program with the terms of the agreement written directly into lines of code. It is stored and replicated on a blockchain network. Smart contracts enable ...

In my last article, I wrote about smart contracts and why they’re gaining popularity as a way to execute agreements, both inside and outside of Web3. For those unfamiliar, smart contracts are like any ...