New smart contract company, Confideal, is to offer users of its Ethereum - based, self - executing deal platform a dispute arbitration service staffed by lawyers, as it prepares... (artificiallawyer.com)
There's been particular emphasis of late on designing smart contracts that are more secure and easier to use, and much of the blame (at least in the public's eye) has fallen on ethereum's new smart contracting language, Solidity. (coindesk.com)
Another new piece of cutting - edge cryptography, MAST doesn't enable new smart contracts per se, but by reducing the size of the data necessary for bitcoin scripts, it enables «complicated redemption conditions» that aren't currently viable partially because of space constraints. (coindesk.com)