Algorand warns developers that vibe coding smart contracts with AI tools risks irreversible fund loss and calls for disciplined agentic engineering.

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 ...

Update (25 July, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC): This article has been updated to add commentary by Shantanu Sontakke, security engineer at web3 security firm Zokyo Smart-contract developers and auditors told ...

The new smart contract platform dismantles longstanding development issues by introducing a scalable, easy-to-use solution. Hathor, a layer-1 blockchain, introduces Nano Contracts, a smart contract ...

Yet, despite such optimism, something unreal happened soon after OpenAI launched EVMbench. An exploit involving Claude Opus 4 ...

While exploitation of security flaws in many smart contracts have become a perennial target of cyberattackers, more security firms are shining a spotlight on scams that use fraudulent or obfuscated ...

Smart contracts are programs written on the blockchain that self-execute when certain conditions are met. They use code to define and enforce the rules of the contract. Once a smart contract is ...

You might be surprised how well your current programming skills translate to the blockchain and Web3. Let's get started with smart contract development using Ethereum and Solidity. For programmers ...

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