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Smart Contracts And Their Roles In Enterprise Business Blockchain Projects

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Smart Contracts And Their Roles In Enterprise Business Blockchain Projects Smart contracts and blockchain are the Laurel and Hardy of the crypto world, always finding a parallel mention - just that they are a lot more serious than that! Smart contracts are progressing and are well-poised to become one of the most demanded features of blockchain technology. They could find their applications in any place where a ‘contract’ is relevant, right from legal and financial systems to even IoT and healthcare. Smart contracts eliminate the need for intermediaries and clerical delays, and this adds to automation, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and an advantageous rigidity in the processes. Imagine little things like your pharmacist having your drugs ready as soon as the doctor prescribes your medicines, and the pharmacist not being able to include any generic drug that might unpleasantly react with the prescribed ones! This is what smart contracts are capable of. These little pieces of ...

ERC-20 and ERC-721: What are they and how do you use them?

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ERC stands for Ethereum Requests for Comments and is used by Ethereum developers. In order to execute a token in the Ethereum ecosystem, the developers need to abide by a set of rules established by the ERC. Tokens developed compliant to ERCs called ERC tokens have become popular over the years. The property of the ERC token that attracts its users most is the fact that it can be traded. This exchange is possible only if its value is standard. Let’s look at two well-known ERC tokens and their characteristics. Ethereum Smart Contracts ERC-20 ERC-20 tokens represent a certain value and come under fungible tokens. Much like currency, they can be interchanged with other ERC-20 tokens as they all are the same. These tokens have the nature of being divisible, meaning you could send someone 0.5 of your token. A majority of the tokens on the Ethereum platform follow ERC-20. For a token to be considered as an ERC-20 token, it needs to fulfill the conditions set by ERC-20. The prima...