Blockchain-based Smart Contracts: A Systematic Mapping Study

Understand

An appealing feature of blockchain technology is smart contracts.

• A smart contract is executable code that runs on top of the blockchain to facilitate, execute and enforce an agreement between untrusted parties without the involvement of a trusted third party.
• In this paper, we conduct a systematic mapping study to collect all research that is relevant to smart contracts from a technical perspective.
• The aim of doing so is to identify current research topics and open challenges for future studies in smart contract research.