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Smart contract

What crypto means by it

Code that lives on the chain itself and executes exactly as written the moment its conditions are satisfied. No discretion, no goodwill, no one to appeal to.

What you already know this as

An escrow agreement plus the core banking code that executes it, fused into one thing and published for anyone to read.

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