Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities
Nanjing University · Singapore Management University · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain technology. Recently, the term is popularly used to refer to low-level code scripts running on a blockchain platform. Our study focuses exclusively on this subset of smart contracts. Such smart contracts have increasingly been gaining ground, finding numerous important applications (e.g., crowdfunding) in the real world. Despite the increasing popularity, smart contract development still remains somewhat a mystery to many developers largely due to its special design and applications. Are there any differences between smart contract…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 56.77
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- 100%
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- 182
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- Computer science
- Software engineering
- Engineering management
- Computer security
- Data science
- Engineering
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure