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The Ethereum network brought smart contracts into the blockchain space, making concepts like decentralized finance (DeFi) possible. Smart contracts can automatically execute processes once certain ...

The Ethereum Foundation has awarded a grant to researchers at Columbia and Yale for work on their new smart contract programming language. The Ethereum Foundation has awarded a grant to researchers at ...

WeBank, one of China’s first all-digital challenger banks, has revealed that it will begin exploring the potential integration of DAML, which is an open-source smart contract programming language ...

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Smart contracts could soon get a boost in bitcoin as prominent programmer Pieter Wuille has unveiled a new coding language designed specifically for their use. Posted to the bitcoin developer mailing ...