David M. Adlerstein is counsel at New York City law firm Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz, where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate, securities law and regulatory matters. In this opinion ...

The conversation surrounding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has led to an increased interest in smart contracts. In fact, smart contracts—self-executing agreements—live on blockchain-based ...

A smart contract is a self-executing computer program with the terms of the agreement written directly into lines of code. It is stored and replicated on a blockchain network. Smart contracts enable ...

Smart contracts automate transactions on blockchains, cutting out middlemen and reducing fees. Decentralized finance uses smart contracts for trading, lending, and more without traditional banks.

Smart contracts are among the most innovative creations within the blockchain ecosystem, enabling DeFi, NFTs, and automated transactions. While smart contracts create this trustless automation, they ...

What is a smart contract? This is a question that, these days, has become impossible to answer without starting the digital equivalent of a bar fight. The minute that term is thrown out in a ...

Many investors have come to accept that cryptocurrencies have a place in many portfolios. However, some don't understand the functions of cryptocurrencies beyond their use as a digital asset and ...

Smart contracts are potentially one of the most useful tools associated with blockchain, and they can enable the transfer of everything from bitcoin and fiat currency to goods transported around the ...

Smart contracts are the worker bees of blockchain technology. Most of the programs that run on blockchains–ranging from financial exchanges to games–are decentralized applications (dapps) that are ...

Josh Stark is a lawyer and head of operations and legal at Ledger Labs, a blockchain consulting firm and development group. In this op-ed, Ledger Labs head of operations Josh Stark takes a deep dive ...

An application on Ethereum, Solana or other programmable blockchain. Smart contracts mostly govern financial arrangements; for example, they enable new cryptocurrencies to be established, and they ...

A logic error in a smart contract, which is software that resides on Ethereum or other programmable blockchain. Because smart contracts are involved in financial ...