# smart contracts News

While many in the space felt the blow of tumbling crypto prices since their highs at the end of 2017, other crypto enthusiasts have chosen to focus on the long-term implications of blockchain technology. One metric to measure this enthusiasm has been in robust funding rounds. In that case, the sector...

Smart contracts are central to the idea of creating decentralized communities where wealth and information can be exchanged under predefined terms without centralized intermediaries moderating the exchange. One type of smart contract that is gaining lots of attention is the Hashed TimeLock Contract (or HTLC). Hash locks are a type...

A group of academic researchers has unveiled a new first-of-its-kind protocol designed to provide confidentiality and anonymity to account-based smart contract platforms such as Ethereum. The Problem Creating systems where privacy is preserved for users has long been a foundational value in the cryptocurrency world. In the early days, it...

The distributed ledger and artificial intelligence startup Fetch.AI announced their induction into the Trusted IoT Alliance via a press release shared with BTCManager on February 7, 2019. The community will work together to better grasp how large corporations such as Bosch, T-Labs, and Cisco can leverage an autonomous Internet of Things (IoT)...

Waves has announced the beginning of a partnership with Microsoft Azure, paving the way for developers to be able to create smart contracts on both private and public ledgers, January 29, 2019. The Partnership This Tuesday, January 29, Sasha Ivanov, the leader and CEO of the Russian-based platform Waves announced...