The industrialization age of programming by contract is opening a new era in software development. Just as development techniques went from assembly to structured languages and from structured ...

Since its introduction in 2014 the Solidity programming language has become the de facto standard to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain network. Solidity is so popular that numerous ...

Asset-oriented programming makes fundamental functions native to the programming language. DeFi needs more of that to improve security. Decentralized finance (DeFi) is growing fast. Total value locked ...

Adam Back’s Blockstream has launched Bitcoin-native smart contract programming language Simplicity, offering an alternative to Ethereum’s Solidity. Blockstream, the developer of Bitcoin’s layer-2 ...

WeBank, one of China’s first all-digital challenger banks, has revealed that it will begin exploring the potential integration of DAML, which is an open-source smart contract programming language ...

Bitcoin offered the first smart contract programming language the world had ever seen. Script, as this language is called, lets users encode different conditions under which coins can be spent. But ...

The crypto ecosystem sits on top of distributed ledgers, which are broadly called blockchains. Apart from recording and verifying transactions, some crypto blockchains like Ethereum let users launch ...