General-purpose Languages for Blockchain Smart Contracts Development: A Comprenhensive Study

L Olivieri, V Arceri, B Chachar, L Negrini… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart contracts are undoubtedly one of the most successful and popular applications of the
blockchain industry. They consist of computer programs that are stored in blockchain …

Vulnerability Detection in Ethereum Smart Contracts via Machine Learning: A Qualitative Analysis

D Ressi, A Spanò, L Benetollo, C Piazza… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Smart contracts are central to a myriad of critical blockchain applications, from financial
transactions to supply chain management. However, their adoption is hindered by security …

Scalable UTXO Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained Distributed State

M Bartoletti, R Marchesin, R Zunino - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.07700, 2024 - arxiv.org
Current UTXO-based smart contracts face an efficiency bottleneck, requiring any transaction
sent to a contract to specify the entire updated contract state. This requirement becomes …