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Comparing Smart Contract Paradigms: A Preliminary Study of Security and Developer Experience

Andrea Pinna, Giuseppe Destefanis, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Matteo Vaccargiu

Resource-oriented languages reduce explicit security overhead in smart contracts by 60% compared to imperative languages.

arxiv:2604.26727 v2 · 2026-04-29 · cs.SE · cs.PL

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C1strongest claim

Resource-oriented paradigms shift security from runtime validation to compile-time guarantees, reducing explicit security overhead by 60% (security check density: 6.7% vs. 16.8%, p=0.002) compared to imperative languages.

C2weakest assumption

The 12 contract pairs are truly functionally equivalent and that security checks were identified and counted consistently without implementation bias from the same development team.

C3one line summary

Move reduces security check density by 60% versus Solidity in matched contracts at the cost of 47% larger code size, based on controlled pairs and developer surveys.

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First computed	2026-05-22T01:03:19.529041Z
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188979697fd2da64e100b702dcd8cda38afa9fd822c6cc5caeae291a69d6c536

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arxiv: 2604.26727 · arxiv_version: 2604.26727v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.26727 · pith_short_12: DCEXS2L72LNG · pith_short_16: DCEXS2L72LNGJYIA · pith_short_8: DCEXS2L7

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