Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks.¶
Szabo, N. (1997). Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks. First Monday, 2(9).
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Primes¶
- Contract
- and the incomplete-contracting frame from economics maps directly onto them. Organizational governance. Service-level agreements, charters, and governance documents bind units within an organization, with an HR or audit function as the enforcement regime. Algorithmic and ledger settings. Smart contracts encode the obligation-and-consequence structure as executable code, with a blockchain as the enforcement substrate.
This sourceIntroduces smart contracts: obligation-and-consequence structures encoded as executable code with the network as enforcement substrate.
- and the incomplete-contracting frame from economics maps directly onto them. Organizational governance. Service-level agreements, charters, and governance documents bind units within an organization, with an HR or audit function as the enforcement regime. Algorithmic and ledger settings. Smart contracts encode the obligation-and-consequence structure as executable code, with a blockchain as the enforcement substrate.
- Future Or Promise
- The explicit pending/fulfilled/rejected state machine, articulated in software futures, was imported into smart-contract languages and off-chain settlement protocols.
This sourceIntroduces smart contracts, importing explicit conditional-fulfillment state machines and third-party-authority escrow patterns into cryptographic protocols.
- The explicit pending/fulfilled/rejected state machine, articulated in software futures, was imported into smart-contract languages and off-chain settlement protocols.
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