You don’t need smart contracts for publishing but you do need some way to publish a list of documents or the hashes of the list of documents. A blockchain is an easy way to publish IPFS addresses of articles.
If you want something like verifying that articles are correct you could it’s very hard to do that without smart contracts and interfacing with a service like Kleros.
You don’t need smart contracts for publishing but you do need some way to publish a list of documents or the hashes of the list of documents. A blockchain is an easy way to publish IPFS addresses of articles.
If you want something like verifying that articles are correct you could it’s very hard to do that without smart contracts and interfacing with a service like Kleros.