Commentaries by Unnat Akhouri

The Sustainability of Smart Contracts

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The Sustainability of Smart Contracts

June 18, 2020 06:11:27 pm

Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day. -Fred Ehrsam With the rapid digitization, we saw a new technology called Blockchain quickly emerge. This peer-to-peer distributed ledger has provided a platform to create transactions that are safe, secure, and immutable. Blockchain gave rise to a concept called “smart contracts”, a major contributor [...]

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