When you hear the term “blockchain,” the first word that jumps to mind is likely “cryptocurrency.” While this association is certainly fair, it glosses over an even more powerful concept, one without ...

The insurance industry is on the verge of a monumental shift, driven by the integration of blockchain technology and smart contracts. Bob Brzyski For life and health insurance agents and agency owners ...

Northern Trust's use of smart contracts is part of a trend. JPMorgan Chase has incorporated them in its blockchain projects, and just this week PayPal integrated them in its new stablecoin project.

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 ...

Smart contracts are talked about quite a lot. What is often ignored, however, is their safety. On one hand, we have self-executing mechanisms that don’t require mediators. On the other, it takes one ...

A new entrant is coming into the already-competitive arena for smart-contract blockchains like Ethereum, and it has a familiar name. Stellar, a nine-year-old payments-focused project that comes with ...

Smart contract bugs remain the leading cause of DeFi security breaches.Private key theft now accounts for a significant share of crypto losses.S ...

Contract interaction in crypto means sending a transaction to a smart contract's function on a blockchain, triggering automated execution ...

Below is an excerpt from Nick Oberheiden's latest book, "The Law of Tomorrow: Bitcoin, Tokens, Blockchain - An Introduction for Lawyers" Blockchain is the next technology that lawyers shouldn’t ignore ...

A ransomware operation known as DeadLock has been observed abusing Polygon blockchain smart contracts to manage and rotate proxy server addresses. DeadLock first appeared in July 2025 and has ...