A Hands-on Experience on Some of the Most Popular Smart Contract Platforms

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 […]

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....

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....

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 […]

While the price of bitcoin has been volatile during the last seven days, a number of smart contract platforms have been performing far better this week. Statistics indicate that the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) is $267 billion and the TVL held on Ethereum commands the lion’s share of this value. Ethereum is the largest smart contract platform today, in terms of market valuation, but a number of competitors have increased significantly in value over the last 12 months. 3 Smart Contract Tokens Surpassed Ethereum’s 12 Month Gains by a Long Shot The....