Solana’s First Conference Highlights Why Rust Smart Contracts Will Pioneer De...
The Solana Foundation’s first international conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal this November 7-10. Breakpoint will be the first event to gather Solana’s builders, partners, and supporters in one place to share ideas and network on a global scale. Hundreds of participants will attend the sold-out event featuring a schedule packed with talks and […]
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With contributions from Zerado, FinTech Network have produced a whitepaper that looks at smart contracts and how they could improve efficiencies within the banking sector. The whitepaper highlights: How smart contracts aim to provide security that is superior to traditional contract law and ways they can reduce other transactional and administrative costs. The workings of Ethereum as one of the best examples of smart contracts in practice. Ways that smart contracts could benefit areas such as mortgages, clearing and settlement, KYC & bonds. How challenges with conceptual misalignment,....
Solana has proven itself to be a worthy competitor of ethereum and other leading smart contracts platforms in the space. It has shone through in terms of speed, performance, and transaction fees, all of which have beaten out that of top competitor ethereum. Despite this, the smart contracts network has fallen short in a few […]
Developers can now try out the upcoming WebAssembly smart contract platform. The Iota protocol (MIOTA) is continuing its pivot toward implementing smart contracts with an alpha release of IOTA Smart Contracts Protocol, or ISCP.As announced on Thursday, the project has released a more stable iteration of its smart contracts platform, which was previously in the pre-alpha stage. The new version signals a higher readiness of the technology, allowing developers to compile and test smart contracts for the first time. The smart contracts are based on Rust and the WebAssembly framework, putting....
Nick Szabo, a cryptographer who worked on an early bitcoin prototype, played a key role in developing smart contracts and has been suspected of being Satoshi Nakamoto, is now raising money for a bitcoin/blockchain startup, according to Quartz. Szabo is trying to raise $3 million, according to unnamed sources and a pitch deck that Quartz reviewed. One source said Fenbushi Capital, a China-based venture capital firm that has invested in blockchain ventures, has already committed $1 million in seed capital for the startup. A Crypto Pioneer. Szabo worked on DigiCash, an electronic currency....
Aesthetic Integration, a London-based fintech that applies “formal verification” to analyze safety and fairness of algorithms in financial markets, recently announced the launch of Imandra Contracts, a solution the company calls the world’s first platform using formal verification for blockchain-backed smart contracts. The announcement was made at the Devcon2 conference as part of International Blockchain Week in Shanghai. Imandra Contracts applies advances in artificial intelligence, mathematics and computer science to bring improved rigor to the electronic financial markets and other....