25% of All Smart Contracts Contain Critical Bugs

For every problem that smart contracts solve, they seem to introduce another. In a week in which EOS has made news for all the wrong reasons over a RAM vulnerability, a code auditor has revealed the prevalence of smart contract bugs. Security firm Hosho, which has forged a new partnership with community managers Amazix, has … Read more

PR: INLOCK Strengthens Advisory Board with Addition of Bitcoin.com COO Mate Tokay

BUDAPEST — INLOCK, a platform where licensed lenders can compete for borrowers who want to use their cryptocurrency as collateral for loans, today announced the addition of its new advisory board member, Mate Tokay, COO of Bitcoin.com, the premier source for everything Bitcoin related. The post PR: INLOCK Strengthens Advisory Board with Addition of Bitcoin.com … Read more

4 Major 0x Protocol Changes Paving the Way for Better Decentralized Exchanges

The 0x protocol has been of great interest to people exploring decentralized exchanges and atomic swaps. As such, it must keep evolving. A new version of the protocol will be introduced soon, and below are some interesting changes to keep an eye on. 4. Different Contract Architecture One of the primary use cases for Ethereum … Read more

MyWish Seeks to Become First Provider of EOS Smart Contracts

With a market cap of just under US$7 billion, EOS is the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by valuation. Despite its massive valuation, its recent mainnet launch has been riddled with failures and shortcomings. However, it may soon see a boost in legitimacy thanks to the capabilities set to be provided through the MyWish Smart Contract platform. In their … Read more

The Daily: US Presidential Candidate Accepts Crypto, KICKICO Hacked – $7.7M Stolen

US presidential candidate, Andrew Yang (D), has announced that his campaign for the 2020 election is now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Also in the Daily, Chinese social network, Tianya, is about to issue a native token, and the KICKICO project has been hacked – resulting in the loss of $7.7 million USD worth of tokens due … Read more

RatingToken Discovers 12,000 Identical Smart Contracts Deployed by One Ethereum Address

The Ethereum ecosystem has attracted many developers and companies over the years. Its native smart contracts have proven to be of great value in unlocking new and interesting use cases. For some reason, there has been a rather steep surge in Ethereum smart contract production over the past few days. Some of this activity seems … Read more

One Seemingly Useless Smart Contract Causes Major Ethereum Blockchain Bloat

Even though the Ethereum network is receiving some scaling upgrades, network issues still tend to pop up now and then. Over the past few weeks, the network has seen a rather hefty influx of transactions which seemingly don’t serve any purpose. A recent discovery by a Reddit user shows someone may be purposefully clogging up … Read more

The Billion-Dollar Quest to Eliminate Smart Contract Bugs

You can’t have software without bugs. Every major piece of code is subject to extensive debugging, which is an inevitable part of the development process. But when that code controls digital assets worth millions of dollars, ensuring it’s free of critical errors isn’t just desirable – it’s imperative. As this week’s Bancor hack and this … Read more

What Are Secret Contracts?

Innovation is not hard to come by in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain. Smart contracts are of keen interest to developers all over the world. In the case of the Enigma project, there is a feature known as secret contracts. Adding privacy features to smart contracts makes sense on paper, but are they feasible … Read more