The industrialization age of programming by contract is opening a new era in software development. Just as development techniques went from assembly to structured languages and from structured ...

Bitcoin offered the first smart contract programming language the world had ever seen. Script, as this language is called, lets users encode different conditions under which coins can be spent. But ...

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 ...

Project manager and IT director interview this contract programmer, and based on the contract shop’s recommendation and a brief technical interview she’s hired, reports a pilot fish on the scene. “She ...