XRPL smart contracts went live on AlphaNet in November 2025, opening DeFi for the first time. Can programmable payments boost ...

Since its introduction in 2014 the Solidity programming language has become the de facto standard to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain network. Solidity is so popular that numerous ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a ...

Bitcoin was invented to replace banks, but underlying technology - blockchain – proved it could replace almost any intermediary. It did not stop there; now that we had digital money, we could do ...

The recent emergence of smart contracts is assumed by most to have corresponded with the emergence of cryptocurrencies — the value exchanged in many self-executing deals. But in reality, smart ...

In the past few years, smart contracts have become the literal definition of blockchain technology. Smart contracts enable transactions to be made between parties with the involvement of no ...

Despite being groundbreaking, smart contracts are not impervious to flaws that malevolent parties could exploit. Inadequate input validation is a prevalent weakness that enables attackers to affect ...

As the world rapidly changes, businesses need to find ways to adapt in order to stay ahead. As a part of this adaptation, I think smart contracts are one of the most transformative technologies in ...

What if you could cut your mortgage rate, make it easier to update your will, and ensure that your buddy was never able to weasel out of paying up on a bet? That and much more is the promise of smart ...