Blockchain and Smart Contract Engineering

Xabier Larrucea; Cesare Pautasso

doi:10.1109/MS.2020.3000354

Blockchain and Smart Contract Engineering

Xabier Larrucea, Cesare Pautasso

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Abstract

Blockchains help to build trust among a decentralized network of unknown and untrusted peers who need to agree on a common protocol and trust the correctness and compatibility of the corresponding software implementations. The software engineering discipline cannot ignore this trend, as it fundamentally affects the way software is designed, developed, deployed, and delivered.1 As with the emergence of the Internet, software smart contracts for solving new classes of real-world problems, as opposed to introducing blockchains everywhere, where they may be unnecessary, or provide an inefficient and environmentally unsound solution.4

Original language	English
Article number	9173634
Pages (from-to)	23-29
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	37
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2020.3000354
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2020

Keywords

Special issues and sections
Smart contracts
Software
Bitcoin
Peer-to-peer computing
Computer architecture
Blockchain

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