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Surprise AMA 11/11/2025 📱
...; Nick Szabo knew that; David J knew that. All the OGs knew that. So we created smart contracts and brought them to light, and that was awesome. It was like when JavaScript c...
Surprise AMA 11/11/2025
...ck Szabo knew that; David Chaum knew that. All the OGs knew that. So we created smart contracts and brought them to light, which was awesome—like when JavaScript came with th...
Intersect Structure
...could either aggregate to an actual account with legal agency behind it or to a smart contract, or both, depending on whether you want to split between stablecoins and ADA. ...
PRD and the Lies of Process
...’s a very natural question to ask: why, in November of 2024, didn’t we have the smart contract ready to go? The people who are involved in this who are not blockchain-native,...
Surprise AMA 02/02/2025
...s are being discussed. For example, Patrick Tobler brought up the idea of using smart contracts for the budget process. I think it’s a great idea, and we can innovate a littl...
On RFK
...aw that thinks about computational law, something that is directly connected to smart contracts and regulation in our industry. She’s part of that; she’s also involved in AI ...
$Charles
...dress. Just a second. Actually, yes, that is it. It's the script address of the smart contract. Good. So let me go ahead and do that. What this will do is destroy all of it....
SpacePlace #145 Forking in Public
...e brought the DApps in, and then we started adding the CC features. Then we did smart contracts, and we decided we needed to add guardrails, so we did the guardrails stuff. T...
RWA and Cardano
...lex logic for movement, and all of these things can probably be replicated as a smart contract. It’s a lot of code; it’s a lot of work, but you can write a smart contract for...
On Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano
...to control that. At the end of the day, the Bitcoin core protocol does not have smart contracts capable of doing the things that Cardano and Ethereum can do. There are no DEX...
On Hydra Scaling
...ops, Dex transactions, Oracle transactions, Jed transactions, and complex, rich smart contracts with lots of things going on. What happened over a three-year period is that...
The Lovely Crypto Media
...ustry professionals, show that the desire for verification and certification of smart contracts has become one of the biggest hot-button topics. Effectively, CertiK raised mo...
CS Conversation Board
...ayer two. We don’t need to do anything; just set a 100% fee pool and then use a smart contract to redeem your rewards, but you need a verified NFT to do that.” Here’s the pro...
PFP, Art, and Sharing
...ical. It would be beneficial if these standards were honored and appreciated by smart contracts across multiple systems—not just Solana, Algorand, Cardano, or Ethereum, but a...
I wrote a book
...ch is what Midnight uses. This helps provide a broader understanding of private smart contracts in general. I also delve into some new developments in the ecosystem, like Z...
Thoughts on Growth for Cardano in 2026 (Pentad Series)
... same goes for the XRP ecosystem and any UTXO cryptocurrencies that lack native smart contract capabilities but want to earn yield. We need to improve the UI/UX and work on ...
The Profane Unaccountability of Social Media
...? You look at something like Cardano; there's an on-chain governance, there's a smart contracting stack, there is a network that has...
Live Reaction Video: Trump's Bitcoin Speech
...lt to allow for the pricing of the resources, utilization of the system, so the smart contract capabilities of the system or transactional capabilities of the system. That ty...
Metatransactions
...able to do this in a UTXO system is very important. You can always do it with a smart contract, and that’s the point of Plutus. It allows a very creative interplay, and what ...
The End of an Era
...hey take real-world contracts and try to add a legal DSL to them. You combine a smart contract with a legal DSL, but you need a privacy component for this to actually work, w...
Basho, Input Endorsers, and the Future of Scalability
... it could be like, "Hey, I want to move money," or it could involve an asset, a smart contract, voting, or registering some certificate, etc. There are many different use cas...
Getting to a Minimum Viable Constitution and Beyond
...s super cool is we’re adding something into the SIP where there’s actually some smart contract logic that can represent the Constitution and constrain the Constitutional comm...
Intersect, Repos, and Cardano Product Backlog
...his concept of tribes, and each tribe is connected to a different concept, like smart contracts, for example, or core technology. Smart contracts cover things like Plutus and...
Surprise AMA 12/10/2022
...;d be nice to create a standards body as well for like the wallet standards the smart contract standards these types of things then finally you need a Constitution and the Co...
What is RealFi?
...foundational definitions of defy and the different types of Primitives of D5 so smart contracts and Keepers and oracles and governance different D5 protocols on-chain acid ex...
More on FTX and the Industry
...ustry and start coming together on basic basic standards for this type of thing smart contract security standards and some ethical functionality standards I hope people begin...
Video to Elon: How to Build Decentralized Twitter Using Doge and Cardano for Profit and Pleasure
...hink of that like maybe a Dao for organizational design you think about maybe a smart contract who knows and so it's a really interesting challenge actually at its co...
Birthday Musings
...f you're a Bitcoin maximalist if you ever were curious about how to get smart contracts to come to bitcoin you should look to cardano because the extended utxo and pl...
Bitcoin is Digital Gold. Let's talk about the mine...
...do that but you could take wrapped Bitcoin on cardano or ethereum or some other smart contract Network and then create something that is dollar pegged or Euro pegged or you w...
Road to a Polyglot Ecosystem for Cardano
...s of things another thing is that this spec language could also be extended for smart contract standards as well foreign so in summary I hope that helps everybody kind of Rea...
Surprise AMA 09/17/2022
... are we making it Charles are you concerned about emergent Behavior via complex smart contracts which would be out of scope of the original security model EG chain derivative...
Vasil is Coming September 22nd, 2022
...id back when we launched alonzo there's really two ways you can look at smart contracts and programmability in the ecosystem one way is to start with maximum expressi...
Surprise AMA 08/19/2022
...i'd love to collaborate on standards i'd love to collaborate on smart contracts um collaborate on future protocol design uh gavin's a very bright guy ...
Mongolia Special AMA 07/16/2022
...acts you can point to the creation of solidity the way it was built and the way smart contracts are designed on ethereum tend to lead to insecure smart contracts there were 1...
Let's Talk Roadmap and Governance
...p;#39;t make everybody happy all the time for example being slow to market with smart contracts meant that cardano missed a lot of the defy stuff that's happening tod...
Vasil Upgrade - The State of Play
...on rate with pipelining and then all the sips are basically there to make pluto smart contracts easier to write if you're a developer whether you're doing it ...
Post-Consensus, Markets, and Thoughts
...sformed and used with ai and other techniques so that they can be embedded into smart contracts and entrepreneurs can ask simple questions of whether is this transaction lega...
Update from Washington
...ing to collaborate and cooperate on some basic principles like the standards of smart contracts the definitions of things like decentralization trying to create regulatory fr...
Gifts, Obsidian, and Back in the Office
...the Barcelona Summit for formal methods and applying formal methods to Cardinal smart contracts to me it's very important that everybody who writes Cardinal smart con...
A Few Musings
... than ever before there are more transactions on cardinal than ever before more smart contracts on cardano than ever before more nfts on cardano than ever before more daps un...
Back from California (Milken Institute)
...ing a deep and detailed conversation about the application of formal methods to smart contracts that will result in certification standards for all cardano dabs so we don&...
Surprise AMA 04/13/2022
hi this is charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny colorado always warm always sunny sometimes colorado today is april 13th 2022. it's a lovely day back in the office having some f...
Rollup
...t's enormous work product in principle uh in practice to do and uh just smart contract certification is an enormous work product uh there's a bunch of our dev...
Dubai Surprise AMA: 03/26/2022
... what bitcoin had done extend it and then add more capabilities to it to enable smart contracts ethereum chose a completely different accounting model which i think was based...
Some Updates
...erate on the intent and embed them as kind of a regulator of the system for all smart contracts this comes up a lot in the Privacy space people want confidentiality and priva...
Surprise AMA 02/21/2022
... remain nameless did a podcast today came out today and said well the launch of smart contracts on cardano is a failure we are not a real competitor to ethereum uh you know w...
Moxie's Thoughts on Cryptocurrencies and Web3
...autonomous art says hey what's the output of this view function on this smart contract alchemy or fura responds with a json blob that says this is the output and the ...
Cardstarter and SundaeSwap
hi this is Charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado always warm Always Sunny sometimes Colorado today is January 24th 2022 and I'm making a video to discuss the latest dram...
Whiteboard: DApps and Development
...ith james gabby and lars brunius and it's the utxo versus account based smart contract blockchain paradigms so basically it compares and contrasts what people are use...
Little Bit of Everything
... ah we have deads ah we have prism need a platform a settlement system you need smart contracts gogen's out cardano is at scale you need a large community to draw fro...