TY - GEN
T1 - Smart contract development from the perspective of developers
T2 - 1st Asian Workshop on Usable Security, AsiaUSEC 2020, the 1st Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, CoDeFi 2020, the 5th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, VOTING 2020, and the 4th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2020, held at the 24th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2020
AU - Ayman, Afiya
AU - Roy, Shanto
AU - Alipour, Amin
AU - Laszka, Aron
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Blockchain-based platforms are emerging as a transformative technology that can provide reliability, integrity, and auditability without trusted entities. One of the key features of these platforms is the trustworthy decentralized execution of general-purpose computation in the form of smart contracts, which are envisioned to have a wide range of applications. As a result, a rapidly growing and active community of smart-contract developers has emerged in recent years. A number of research efforts have investigated the technological challenges that these developers face, introducing a variety of tools, languages, and frameworks for smart-contract development, focusing on security. However, relatively little is known about the community itself, about the developers, and about the issues that they face and discuss. To address this gap, we study smart-contract developers and their discussions on two social media sites, Stack Exchange and Medium. We provide insight into the trends and key topics of these discussions, into the developers’ interest in various security issues and security tools, and into the developers’ technological background.
AB - Blockchain-based platforms are emerging as a transformative technology that can provide reliability, integrity, and auditability without trusted entities. One of the key features of these platforms is the trustworthy decentralized execution of general-purpose computation in the form of smart contracts, which are envisioned to have a wide range of applications. As a result, a rapidly growing and active community of smart-contract developers has emerged in recent years. A number of research efforts have investigated the technological challenges that these developers face, introducing a variety of tools, languages, and frameworks for smart-contract development, focusing on security. However, relatively little is known about the community itself, about the developers, and about the issues that they face and discuss. To address this gap, we study smart-contract developers and their discussions on two social media sites, Stack Exchange and Medium. We provide insight into the trends and key topics of these discussions, into the developers’ interest in various security issues and security tools, and into the developers’ technological background.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-54455-3_29
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-54455-3_29
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85089621729
SN - 9783030544546
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 405
EP - 422
BT - Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2020 International Workshops, AsiaUSEC, CoDeFi, VOTING, and WTSC, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Bernhard, Matthew
A2 - Bracciali, Andrea
A2 - Camp, L. Jean
A2 - Matsuo, Shin’ichiro
A2 - Maurushat, Alana
A2 - Rønne, Peter B.
A2 - Sala, Massimiliano
PB - Springer
Y2 - 14 February 2020 through 14 February 2020
ER -