What this article covers
This guide explains what smart contracts are, why they matter for casinos, and how DeFi building blocks—liquidity pools, automated market makers (AMMs), decentralized oracles, and stablecoin rails—can reshape payouts, odds, and compliance. It finishes with an operator blueprint, a risk checklist, and FAQs anchored in current documentation and case law.
Smart contracts 101 for gambling founders
A smart contract…
What is a smart contract?
A smart contract is software stored on a blockchain that holds data and functions at a specific address and runs exactly as programmed when triggered by a transaction. In Ethereum’s docs, it’s “a program that runs on the Ethereum blockchain,” composed of code (functions) and state (data).
Standards bodies echo this: NIST describes smart contracts as…
Table of contents
What a smart contract is
How execution works on Ethereum
Core properties and trade-offs
Token standards that power Web3
Oracles and the “oracle problem”
Common use cases in 2025
Security pitfalls and best practices
Upgrades and proxy patterns
Fees and scaling with rollups
Account abstraction and smart-contract wallets
Getting started
FAQs
What a smart contract is
A smart contract is program code plus state stored at an on-chain address; when a…