One of the Trump administration’s very first executive orders (No. 14178), issued January 23, 2025, titled “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,” was aimed at promoting ...

Smart contracts enable automated, trustless transactions without intermediaries. However, the security of these contracts is paramount, especially when dealing with valuable digital money and property ...

Truebit lost $26 million after a smart-contract overflow bug let an attacker mint tokens at near-zero cost, sending the TRU price down 99%. A $26 million exploit of the offline computation protocol ...

Contract analysis once required weeks of manual audits and specialized review, but AI tools can now surface issues in seconds. However, as AI’s capabilities expand ...

The New York Fed and the Bank for International Settlements are trialing smart contracts for tokenized monetary policy, aiming to let central banks act instantly in future financial systems. Central ...

Ripple (XRP) launched smart contracts on AlphaNet in November 2025 to enable native DeFi applications on XRPL. XRP has struggled to convert payment infrastructure growth into sustained token demand ...

Smart contracts may sound like tech jargon, but beneath the name lies a game-changing solution that’s reshaping finance as we know it. The purpose of this piece is to, or at least attempt to anyway, ...