[en] Recent technologies such as inter-ledger payments, non-fungible tokens, and smart contracts are all fruited from the ongoing development of Distributed Ledger Technologies. The foreseen trend is that they will play an increasingly visible role in daily life, which will have to be backed by appropriate operational resources. For example, due to increasing demand, smart contracts could soon face a shortage of knowledgeable users and tools to handle them in practice. Widespread smart contract adoption is currently limited by security, usability and costs aspects. Because of a steep learning curve, the handling of smart contracts is currently performed by specialised developers mainly, and most of the research effort is focusing on smart contract security, while other aspects like usability being somewhat neglected. Specific tools would lower the entry barrier, enabling interested non-experts to create smart contracts. In this paper we designed and developed Blockly2Hooks, a solution towards filling this gap even in challenging scenarios such as when the smart contracts are written in an advanced language like C. With the XRP Ledger as a concrete working case, Blockly2Hooks helps interested non-experts from the community to learn smart contracts easily and adopt the technology, through leveraging well-proven teaching methodologies like Visual Programming Languages, and more specifically, the Blockly Visual Programming library from Google. The platform was developed and tested and the results are promising to make learning smart contract development smoother.
Centre de recherche :
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > SEDAN - Service and Data Management in Distributed Systems
Disciplines :
Sciences informatiques
Auteur, co-auteur :
TRESTIOREANU, Lucian Andrei ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SEDAN
SHBAIR, Wazen ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SEDAN
SCHEIDT DE CRISTO, Flaviene ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SEDAN
STATE, Radu ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SEDAN
Co-auteurs externes :
no
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
Blockly2Hooks: Smart Contracts for Everyone with the XRP Ledger and Google Blockly
Date de publication/diffusion :
2023
Nom de la manifestation :
IEEE DAPPS 2023
Lieu de la manifestation :
Athens, Grèce
Date de la manifestation :
17-20 July 2023
Manifestation à portée :
International
Titre du périodique :
International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS)
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