Most Popular Smart Contract Platforms 2021

In 2021, many smart contract platforms competed for users’ attention and attempted to be the next Ethereum killer. The terms DeFi, GameFi, and NFT, have been all over the media lately, and any of these would not be possible without smart contracts. As more smart contract platforms are introduced, it becomes hard for newcomers to choose which is right for them. This article will examine some of the most popular smart contract platforms and share our hands-on experience with them. Ethereum Token: ETH TPS: 10 Ethereum is the world’s first smart contract platform. Developers create....

Lost in our 'pie-in-the-sky' projections on the future of blockchains is the most important concern anyone should have on the technology: What are the opportunity costs? Nowhere is that more pronounced in the current debates then in the case of the "smart contract". While I believe that smart contracts will provide a number of efficiencies in our blockchain future, there's one category of smart contracts that I'm most skeptical of – that of the recently popular "Turing complete" smart contract. All smart contract platforms in use today fall into roughly two broad....

The assets of seven smart contract platforms have been included in the fund: ADA, SOL, AVAX, DOT, MATIC, ALGO and XLM. Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments has unveiled a new cryptocurrency fund dedicated to smart contract platforms excluding Ethereum, underscoring growing investor appetite for alternative blockchain networks. The Grayscale Smart Contract Platform Ex-Ethereum Fund, also known by the ticker symbol GSCPxE, is the company’s 18th investment product. The fund will provide exposure to seven smart contract platforms at the following weightings:Cardano (ADA): 24.63%Solana....

Cardano (ADA) developer IOG has launched the first testnet for their smart contract platform, “Alonzo Blue”. The first stage of a roadmap set to be completed around September with full implementation of smart contract capabilities for the platform. The evolution of Cardano has not gone unnoticed. Popular crypto analyst Ben Armstrong recently revealed his 1,000,000 […]

Solidity and EVM make smart contracts available to every developer out there, regardless of experience. This is a good way to boost innovation in the smart contract space, but may not yield the best results in the initial stages. The recent debacle surrounding The DAO has shed an interesting spotlight on smart contract technology. Since individual developers wrote the entire concept of this project, it looks like smart contracts are not completely trustless. There is still a lot of work to be done before this technology is ready for mainstream adoption. Not everyone is capable of – or....