The Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has revealed a new technology that he believes could help alleviate the problems associated with smart contracts from the ethereum.

In a statement released Wednesday, Fujitsu said the new system aims to detect in advance the risks associated with a smart contract source code on ethereum. Indeed, technology helps the blockchain authenticate the source call that triggers smart contract transactions.

Smart contracts are a key feature that differentiates ethereum from bitcoin, allowing developers to build applications over the blockchain ethereum to automatically execute programming (or contract) orders.

However, Fujitsu said that currently, there are six common risks associated with the platform. While existing technologies are able to solve most of these problems, the authenticity of the call at the source remains problematic.

For example, as the company has explained, since several smart contracts might have been integrated indirectly into a chain of blocks, there is a risk that the system may not perform properly. Original intent of a source call.

To this end, the new system, fruit of the combined efforts of the Fujitsu laboratory and its R & D center, would alert developers of any source code vulnerability that could be exploited to abuse the language of the Ethereum and that could ultimately "falsify the origin of a transaction."

In addition, the two divisions also tout the new technology as being able to locate the code of these bugs.

In other news, Fujitsu said it would also expand its blockchain research and development efforts to help commercialize Hyperledger Fabric, a blockchain framework developed by the blockchain consortium of which Fujitsu is a member . This project is expected to be completed later in 2018.

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