Semantic understanding of smart contracts: Executable operational semantics of solidity

• Main Authors: JIAO, Jiao, KAN, Shuanglong, LIN, Shang Wei, SANAN, David, LIU, Yang, SUN, Jun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Bitcoin; Computer programming languages; Ethereum; Finance and Financial Management; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5968; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6971/viewcontent/Semantic_Understanding_of_Smart_Contracts_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Bitcoin has been a popular research topic recently. Ethereum (ETH), a second generation of cryptocurrency, extends Bitcoin's design by offering a Turing-complete programming language called Solidity to develop smart contracts. Smart contracts allow creditable execution of contracts on EVM (Ethe...