12. Smart Contract Security and Best Practices
By Victor Fang, PhD*
* Victor Fang, PhD, is founder and CEO of AnChain.ai.
A smart contract, coined by American computer scientist Nick Szabo, is the revolutionary feature that defines blockchain 2.0, compared to the peer-to-peer decentralized transactions in the blockchain 1.0 era such as Bitcoin, Ripple, and so on.
As of 2019, Ethereum is the most widely adopted smart contract-enabled blockchain. An Ethereum smart contract is decentralized software that can be executed and verified on the Ethereum public blockchain.
Ethereum smart contracts are programmed in Solidity, a JavaScript-like programming language (ECMAScript syntax), and they run in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). You can learn more ...
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