Allianz and Nephila successfully piloted blockchain technology for catastrophe swap
Insurance provider Allianz Risk Transfer AG (ART) and Nephila Capital Limited (Nephila) [announced](http://www.agcs.allianz.com/about-us/news/blockchain-technology-successfully-piloted-by-allianz-risk-transfer-and-nephila-for-catastrophe-swap-/%20) on Wednesday that they have “successfully piloted the use of blockchain smart contract technology for transacting a natural catastrophe swap.”
A Visit to the Oracle
Smart contracts are poised to revolutionize the ways that humans, machines, and organizations create and enforce contractual relationships. Everything from property ownership to financial instruments to family arrangements can now be implemented as a piece of code on a publicly verifiable shared ledger known as a blockchain.
Third Key Solutions Decentralized Arbitration and Mediation Network to bridge law and smart contracts
Smart Contracts are among the hottest of all topics in the FinTech world today, but how exactly does a nation's justice system recognize, interface with, and acknowledge the outcomes from smart contracts?
Assert Guards: Towards Automated Code Bounties & Safe Smart Contract Coding on Ethereum
With great power comes great responsibility. Once uploaded, the code on Ethereum runs exactly as programmed… forever. That is one of the platform’s core benefits: code that always interoperates as promised, can’t be tampered with, and has no down time. You don’t have to trust the creator or hosting, only the code. Except, that comes with a price. As we all know, bugs always creep up. In fact, in Ethereum, there’s already been circumstances where this code, which you can’t replace, has caused trouble.
Beware the impossible smart contract
Ethereum-like smart contracts are on the MultiChain roadmap. The answer I always give is: no, or at least not yet. But in the hype-filled world of blockchains, smart contracts are all the rage, so why ever not? Well, the problem is, while we now know of three strong use cases for permissioned Bitcoin-style blockchains (provenance, inter-company records and lightweight finance), we’re yet to find the equivalent for Ethereum-style smart contracts.
Blockchain smart contract platforms on the rise
When bitcoin initially came on to the financial playing field in 2009, little note was taken of the fledgling technology. As the years have passed, it has received applause and criticism. However, bitcoin as a currency has not experienced the same staggering rise to fame as it’s underlying technology.
Symbiont partners with Gemalto to store and run smart contracts with heightened security
A New York-based FinTech startup, [Symbiont.io](http://symbiont.io), is bridging the gap between blockchain technology and traditional financial markets. The company is creating programmable versions of traditional securities.
Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain
This report makes a number of recommendations which focus on ministerial leadership, research, standards and the need for proof of concept trials. Secondly, this report is not about Bitcoin. It is about the algorithmic technologies that enable Bitcoin and their power to transform ledgers as tools to record, enable and secure an enormous range of transactions. So the basic block chain approach can be modified to incorporate rules, smart contracts, digital signatures and an array of other new tools.
BitHalo offers ‘unbreakable’ blockchain smart contracts
David Zimbeck's Halo may be the purest, peer to peer, cryptographically secure and enforceable Smart Contract yet to be made available for international businesses.
Smart contracts: The ultimate automation of trust?
The materialisation of contracts capable of enforcing themselves is now facilitated by blockchain technologies. The ability of smart contracts to alter the way in which many traditional processes are performed is potentially immense. However, standardisation and wider adoption of the blockchain is needed to turn this potential into reality.
Bitcoin and Criminal Smart Contracts
Smart Contracts are said to streamline property deals, loans, wills and other contractual agreements. However, in the hands of criminals, they could be used for illicit means.
