The network's co-founder says many blockchains pitching financial rails lack the activity to justify their valuations, and stablecoins still lack true product-market fit.

How does AI improve Smart Contract Vulnerability Scanning? We analyze the difference between Static and Dynamic code analysis ...

Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum/Polygon, VeChain, Quorum /Besu and Corda (R3) selected as most suitable blockchain ...

One of the Trump administration’s very first executive orders (No. 14178), issued January 23, 2025, titled “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,” was aimed at promoting ...

Developers have started deploying AI agents to defend smart contracts after crypto hackers stole more than US$3.4bn from blockchain platforms in 2025. Three maj ...

OpenAI has launched a new benchmark that evaluates how well different AI models detect, patch and even exploit security ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets may have cooled down over the past year, but the technology powering these applications continues to advance. In particular, smart contract platforms that enable ...

MECCACOIN has announced the successful completion of a smart contract audit by CertiK and Coinsult, making it one of the first digital currencies to receive security certification from two ...

Smart contracts are talked about quite a lot. What is often ignored, however, is their safety. On one hand, we have self-executing mechanisms that don’t require mediators. On the other, it takes one ...

A version of this article originally appeared in the Artnet News Pro fall 2022 Intelligence Report. You want to buy a new painting from a midsize gallery? It’s not as simple as it sounds. After you ...

Cross-border payments company Ripple announced that it will add smart contracts to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) developer ecosystem. Ripple announced that the move would open various use cases for users, ...

Smart contracts are the worker bees of blockchain technology. Most of the programs that run on blockchains–ranging from financial exchanges to games–are decentralized applications (dapps) that are ...