Jun 13
·3 min read
Interested in the future of blockchain, smart contracts, and the potential challenges associated with widespread implementation? Me too.
For those interested, I thought I’d share this academic article I ran across, Blockchain smart contracts: Applications, challenges, and future trends (Khan et al., 2021).
The authors talk about challenges and future needs to be investigated further and addressed. The human challenge was top of mind for me this week, as I just listened to a podcast talking about someone who successfully completed a hack challenge for a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and the weak link was the off-chain, human link.
Can smart contracts help? A colleague of mine and I discussed this week how they can help. Smart contracts show promise, but the authors of the article say legal, “off-chain” resources and immutability could prove problematic. Scalability as well, but that is being talked about a lot lately. They
Keep reading this article on Blockchain-Medium.
