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CFOs and finance departments are always looking for reductions in cost and increases in speed and efficiency in business engagements. One option that’s attracting more attention is the smart contract.

With the growth of DeFi and Web3-based products, many entrepreneurs may be looking to blockchain technology not only as a source of greater financial flexibility but also as a means of safeguarding ...

Decentralized networks are becoming commonplace on today's technical landscape, as enterprises seek to write custom applications that solve business problems. Increasingly these are based on smart ...

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 ...

Smart contracts’ value proposition is well-founded, as we discussed in our previous blog post Exploring the Disruptive Potential of Smart Contracts. They bring programmability to a value transfer ...

Smart contract technology is booming with the release of Ethereum and programming languages such as Solidity and Serpent, that have made contracts much simpler to build and deploy. The idea has been ...

The code is written by people, and they can make mistakes. If the smart contract is in the Blockchain, it couldn’t be changed. A good example of the human error is ...

More businesses are using automated “smart contracts” to handle transactions. Based on blockchain technology, these contracts execute automatically and are lauded as a way to efficiently digitize ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For years, the blockchain industry has been defined by the excitement around smart contracts, or tamper-proof digital agreements that ...

Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit has taken a big step toward its extension north to Healdsburg. On Wednesday, the board voted unanimously to authorize a $21.75 million contract with Stacy and ...