University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 166, No. 1 (December 2017), pp. 263-303 (41 pages) "Smart contracts" are decentralized agreements built in computer code and stored on a blockchain.

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Smart contracts are sophisticated digital agreements that are securely stored on a blockchain and automatically executed when ...

More businesses are using automated “smart contracts” to handle transactions. Based on blockchain technology, these contracts execute automatically and are lauded as a way to efficiently digitize ...

Like it or not, we seem to be stuck with the term “smart contract.” The technology, which can be used to automate transactions on a blockchain, is still so new that no one really agrees on its ...

For years, “code is law” served as the rallying cry of a new digital frontier — a promise that rules, once written, would enforce themselves like clockwork. In the early architecture of Web3, smart ...

The recent emergence of smart contracts is assumed by most to have corresponded with the emergence of cryptocurrencies — the value exchanged in many self-executing deals. But in reality, smart ...

Smart contract technology is booming with the release of Ethereum and programming languages such as Solidity and Serpent, that have made contracts much simpler to build and deploy. The idea has been ...

The code is written by people, and they can make mistakes. If the smart contract is in the Blockchain, it couldn’t be changed. A good example of the human error is ...