Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks

TL;DR: This short survey sketches some state-of-the-art approaches to obtain an efficient and scalable computation of smart contracts, with particular emphasis on sharding, a promising method that allows parallelization and therefore a more efficient management of the computational resources of the network.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a novel blockchain-based and proxy-oriented public audit (BBPO-PA) scheme for low performance terminal devices, which used smart contracts instead of untrusted TPA to improve the reliability and stability of audit results.

TL;DR: The defects in NFT smart contracts could be exploited by attackers to harm the security and reliability of the NFT ecosystem. This paper introduces 5 defects in NFT smart contracts and proposes a tool named NFTGuard to detect them. NFTGuard is able to effectively detect defects based on a symbolic execution framework and has achieved a high precision of 92.6% on a large dataset of real-world smart contracts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between contracts, contracting and better relationships, and seek to contribute to the understanding and operationalization of proactive law in the context of contracts.

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TL;DR: The objective of this paper is to give a comprehensive introduction to applied cryptography with an engineer or computer scientist in mind on the knowledge needed to create practical systems which supports integrity, confidentiality, or authenticity.

TL;DR: The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) as the first step of the internal re-engineering of business processes to electronic commerce is discussed in this article, where a cost-justification model and an extensive list of business documents that are today's biggest EDI hitters are presented.