What is it about?
A smart contract is a piece of software used to facilitate, verify, andenforce the negotiation of a transaction in a blockchain. Smart contract languages are the languages used to specify and/or implement smart contracts. In general, each blockchain platform provides one or more programming languages to specify smart contracts at different levels of abstraction. This paper shows the current state-of-art -and-practice related to these languages, in terms of the existing languages and their main features.
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Why is it important?
Our findings not only bring order to the chaotic smart contract ecosystem, but also unleash some interesting findings that reveal several gaps that open new research opportunities. Furthermore, it is also important because the review has taken into account not only white, formal literature, but also grey literature,
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Writing this article has been a cornerstone to start a new area of research. It allows me to explore the field of smart-contract languages, to take a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art-and-practice and to reveal open issues.
Phd. Antonia M. Reina Quintero
Universidad de Sevilla
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This page is a summary of: Smart Contract Languages, ACM Computing Surveys, January 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3423166.
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Datasets
* The datasets used to conduct this multivocal mapping study can be accessed via Mendeley Datasets here. Dataset DOI: doi:10.17632/b34b55nb3w.1
Notebook with auxiliary datasets and generated graphics
The auxiliary datasets and the graphics generated and included in the paper can be accessed in notebook format
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