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More businesses are using automated “smart contracts” to handle transactions. Based on blockchain technology, these contracts execute automatically and are lauded as a way to efficiently digitize ...

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Regardless of the business you are in, even the simplest deals can often require you to enter into a legal contract. Any contract you use must meet specific legal standards, and must contain necessary ...

Legal precedent comes from court decisions where judges are asked to interpret the law, and once a court rules on an issue, legal precedent becomes the law. This means that legal precedent and ...

Update Oct. 11 at 11:37pm UTC: This article has been updated to reflect that the Cardano transaction wasn’t a smart contract. Cardano has hosted the first legally enforceable contract on its network ...

A long-standing problem confronting the blockchain world and NFT owners is the distinct lack of contractual clarity and legal rights in the enforcement of digital asset transactions. Today, Vleppo and ...