ETH Smart Contract Utility Thesis
Ethereum's smart contracts functionality is a game-changer in technology, enabling independent transactions without human intervention.
Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (3 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.
"AI agents need two things banks cannot provide: programmable money that acts as code and micropayments at fractions of a cent, which crypto handles natively. He compared the shift ahead to the early days of stablecoins and perpetual futures contracts, both dismissed at launch and now embedded in mainstream finance."
"Ethereum's biggest achievement has been proving that Blockchain can be much more than a way to transfer value. By introducing smart contracts, Ethereum opened the door to innovations, such as DeFi, Stablecoins, tokenisation, NFTs and thousands of decentralised applications."
"But the 'trigger moment,' as he described, came when Ethereum rolled out the smart contracts functionality. 'That really is what changed the game in my mind from a technology perspective, because the ability to have external sources that created triggers that then enabled various transactions to occur all independently without any human intervention to me, that’s a big deal,' Cuban said."