Qtum Reveals Mobile Platform for Blockchain Smart Contracts

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Ahead of its planned $15 million crowdsale, Qtum revealed today that its platform will allow smart contracts and decentralized applications to function on mobile phones, tablets and Internet-of-Things (IoT) appliances.

The developers explain that in contrast to existing smart contract platforms, which require a full node and blockchain copy to be present on a client app to execute decentralized applications, Qtum allows smart contract usage without having to install heavy, specialized software. With this, smart contracts can be used in low data storage environments, such as smartphones and IoT devices.

This is done by stacking the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) on ... (read more)