The execution of smart contracts (SCs) relies on consensus algorithms that validate the miner who executes the contract and gets a fee to cover her expenditure. In this sense, miners are strategic agents who may focus on executing those contracts wit...
In Colombia, coffee futures contracts represent essential financial agreements that allow producers and buyers to establish prices, quality, and conditions for future transactions in the coffee market. Despite the evident benefits of stability and pr...
As blockchain technology advances, so has the deployment of smart contracts on blockchain platforms, making it exceedingly challenging for users to explicitly identify application services. Unlike traditional contracts, smart contracts are not writte...
Smart contracts are the key software components to realize blockchain applications, from single encrypted digital currency to various fields. Due to the immutable nature of blockchain, any bugs or errors will become permanent once published and could...
Blockchain, smart contracts, and related concepts have emerged in recent years as a promising technology for cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other areas. However, there are still many security issues that must be addressed as these technologies evolve. Thi...
Aiming at the problem of insufficient technology for detecting smart contract vulnerabilities and the lack of improvement of certain detection tools, a method for the expansion and improvement of the internal module of the Mythril method is proposed....
By utilizing smart contracts, which are essentially scripts that are anchored in a decentralized manner on blockchains or other similar infrastructures, it is possible to make the execution of predetermined procedures visible to the outside world. Th...
Smart contracts are deployed and represented as bytecodes in blockchain networks, and these bytecodes are machine-readable codes. Only a small number of deployed smart contracts have their verified human-readable code publicly accessible to blockchai...
As part of agile methodologies seen in the past few years, IT organizations have continuously adopted new practices in their software delivery life-cycle to improve both efficiency and effectiveness of development teams. Two of these practices are co...
This paper develops a digital supply chain game, modeling marketing and operation interactions between members. The main novelty of the paper concerns a comparison between static and dynamic solutions of the supply chain game achieved when moving fro...
At present, smart contracts are designed based on the application field, and their structure and functions are closely related to specific businesses. Even smart contracts within the same field and the same business have different structures and func...
Many empirical software engineering studies show that there is a need for repositories where source codes are acquired, filtered and classified. During the last few years, Ethereum block explorer services have emerged as a popular project to explore...
The advent and development of digital technologies has had a significant impact on the establishment of contracts. Smart contracts are designed as computer code containing instructions for executing user agreements, offering a technologically secure...
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Condominiums and similar properties use a stratum to manage daily operations, and owners fund it through strata fees. While existing strata fee management systems may be able to handle such funds, such systems could be more inherently transparent. It...
Despite their promising potential, the level of implementation of smart contracts is not at the desired level. To expedite the acceptance and deployment of smart contracts, the barriers to the implementation of smart contracts should be revealed. Pas...
Cities have been growing at an impressive rate, and with the advancement of technology and digitization, new ways have been proposed to provide cities with a certain level of autonomy and intelligence so that they can self-regulate tasks that current...
Blockchain technology has attracted more and more attention from academia and industry recently. Ethereum, which uses blockchain technology, is a distributed computing platform and operating system. Smart contracts are small programs deployed to the...
The development of smart contracts remains in its early stages, with significant differences in underlying programming languages and application platforms resulting in a lack of standardization. This lack of standardization increases the susceptibili...
The aim of our systematic review was to inspect the recently published literature on decentralized governance systems and integrate the insights it articulates on blockchain technology and smart contracts by employing Preferred Reporting Items for Sy...
Testing in the software development process is one of the crucial disciplines. The immutability of deployed smart contracts makes tests particularly important in their design and implementation. The objective is to minimize the costs of smart contrac...
A smart contract is a pivotal notion in blockchain technology. Distributed applications contain smart contracts verifying the fulfillment of the conditions, which determine the execution of transactions between the blockchain network nodes. Those sof...
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As a novel decentralized computing paradigm, blockchain is expected to disrupt the existing e-commerce architecture and process. Secure smart contracts are the crucial foundation for e-commerce based on blockchain. However, vulnerabilities in smart c...
Smart contracts, as a critical application of blockchain technology, significantly enhance its programmability and scalability, offering broad application prospects. However, frequent security incidents have resulted in substantial economic losses an...
Blockchain-based platforms utilise cryptographic protocols to enforce the correct behaviour of users, as well as to guarantee a sufficient level of protection against malicious adversaries. Cryptography is, however, an ever-evolving discipline, and a...
Blockchain-based decentralized cryptocurrency platforms are currently one of the hottest topics in technology. Although most of the interest is generated by cryptocurrency related activities, it is becoming apparent that a much wider spectrum of appl...
Watermarking protocols represent a possible solution to the problem of digital copyright protection of content distributed on the Internet. Their implementations, however, continue to be a complex problem due to the difficulties researchers encounter...
In the aviation industry, the issuance of airside passes often encounters significant delays, posing logistical challenges and hindering crucial operations. This study delves into the potential of implementing blockchain technology, particularly smar...
Smart contracts are self-executing programs that run on the blockchain and make it possible for peers to enforce agreements without a third-party guarantee. The smart contract on Ethereum is the fundamental element of decentralized finance with billi...
Construction projects usually involve signing various contracts with specific billing procedures. In practice, dealing with complex contract structures causes significant problems, especially with regard to timely payment and guaranteed cash flow. Fu...
Smart contracts constitute the foundation for blockchain distributed applications. These constructs enable transactions in trustless environments using consensus algorithms and software-controlled verification rules. In the current state of the art,...
The integration of blockchain technology into healthcare systems has emerged as a technical solution for enhancing data security, protecting privacy, and improving interoperability. Blockchain-based smart contracts offer reliability, transparency, an...
The energy sector is undergoing a period of technological transformation, driven by the emergence of blockchain and smart contracts. These technologies have the potential to revolutionize energy markets and significantly reduce transaction costs, imp...
To address the challenges of inefficiency, vulnerability to attacks, and the lack of transparency and fairness in distributed power trading, a distributed power trading mechanism based on blockchain smart contracts is proposed. Firstly, a strategy fo...
Smart contracts are programs that reside and execute on a blockchain, like any transaction. They are automatically executed when preprogrammed terms and conditions are met. Although the smart contract (SC) must be presented in the blockchain for the...
Smart contracts (SCs) are digital agreements that execute themselves and are stored on a blockchain. Despite the fact that they offer numerous advantages, such as automation and transparency, they are susceptible to a variety of assaults due to their...
Smart contracts, programs running on a blockchain, play a crucial role in driving Web 3.0 across a variety of domains, such as digital finance and future networks. However, they currently face significant security vulnerabilities that could result in...
The concept of Blockchain has penetrated a wide range of scientific areas, and its use is considered to rise exponentially in the near future. Executing short scripts of predefined code called smart contracts on Blockchain can eliminate the need of i...
Blockchain technology has transformed modern digital ecosystems by enabling secure, transparent, and automated transactions through smart contracts. However, the increasing complexity of these contracts introduces significant challenges, including hi...
Smart contracts have gained a lot of popularity in recent times as they are a very powerful tool for the development of decentralised and automatic applications in many fields without the need for intermediaries or trusted third parties. However, due...
A composite smart contract can execute smart contracts that may belong to other owners or companies through external calls, bringing more security challenges to blockchain applications. Traditional static verification methods are inadequate for analy...
The paper presents an approach of the blockchain and smart contracts utilization for dynamic robot coalition creation. The coalition is forming for solving complex tasks in industry applications that requires sequential united actions from the severa...
This paper addresses the challenge of preserving user privacy within the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem using blockchain technology. Several approaches consider using blockchain and encryption to enhance the privacy of IoT applications and constr...
The current research aims to discover applications of QML approaches in realizing liabilities within smart contracts. These contracts are essential commodities of the blockchain interface and are also decisive in developing decentralized products. Bu...
The construction industry has dynamic supply chains with multiple suppliers usually engaged in short-term relationships. Government legislation, novel types of payment agreements, conventional information technology solutions, and supply chain manage...
With the blooming of blockchain-based smart contracts in decentralized applications, the security problem of smart contracts has become a critical issue, as vulnerable contracts have resulted in severe financial losses. Existing research works have e...
Smart contracts are self-executing programs that facilitate trustless transactions between multiple parties, most commonly deployed on the Ethereum blockchain. They have become integral to decentralized applications in areas such as voting, digital a...
Enterprise blockchain solutions attempt to solve the crucial matter of user privacy, albeit that blockchain was initially directed towards full transparency. In the context of Know Your Customer (KYC) standardization, a decentralized schema that enab...
The increasing reliance on cloud services demands advanced security mechanisms to protect sensitive data and ensure robust access control. This study addresses critical challenges in cloud security by proposing a novel framework that integrates block...
Smart contracts are decentralized applications running on blockchain platforms and have been widely used in a variety of scenarios in recent years. However, frequent smart contract security incidents have focused more and more attention on their secu...
Port supply chains play a very important role in the process of economic globalization. Lack of trust of the mechanism is the main factor in restricting the development of port supply chains. Blockchains have great potential to solve the trust proble...
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