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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how fintech is disrupting the financial industry in Asia. Writing a Solidity contract should feel as friction-free ...

We explain the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and its relevance. An upcoming transition of Ethereum from EVM to Ethereum WebAssembly (eWASM) is projected to attract new developers to the ecosystem.

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 ...

A smart contract is an application that uses blockchain and acts as a digital contract supported by a set of rules. Smart contracts are not considered contracts in the legal sense in most ...

Bitcoin layer 2 Bitfinity has introduced its Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to bring smart contracts Bitcoin protocols and harness Runes to enable Bitcoin DeFi apps. Built on the ICP $3.7652 protocol, ...

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 ...

Ethereum is still working on a complementary plan for parallel EVM, but Bitcoin can be soon expecting its own parallel VM layer 2. Let’s firstly understand why Ethereum cannot achieve parallel EVM. To ...