Chamber of Digital Commerce Forms A Smart Contract Alliance
The Chamber of Digital commerce has launched an initiative to form an industry-leading Smart Contract Alliance (SCA). The announcement was made today, and its goal is to promote real-world applications for this novel technology. The Chamber of Digital commerce, a trade association comprised of industry leading companies representing the digital assets and blockchain sector, unveiled a new initiative called Smart Contract Alliance (SCA). The project aims to promote real world applications of this new “vital technology”, as the press release says: Smart contracts have the potential to....
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The Smart Contract Alliance, an initiative ran by the Chamber of Digital Commerce to promote real-world application of smart contracts, has announced the launch of the Smart Contract Symposium, a conference to take place in New York City on December 5th, 2016. Of particular note is that renowned cryptographer Nick Szabo, who coined the term “smart contracts,” will give the event’s keynote address. Szabo to Keynote New York Symposium. The Chamber expects to host over 250 executives from financial institutions and firms exploring this technology at Microsoft’s Time’s Square Headquarters.....
The inaugural Smart Contract Symposium convenes December 5 in Times Square, not far ahead of the seating of the 45th President of the United States and thousands of new appointees, most of whom are untutored in blockchain technology, digital currencies and related innovations. The Symposium, presented by the Smart Contract Alliance of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, is continuing to take advance registrations for the event, hosted at Microsoft’s Technology Center in the heart of New York City. Uncertainty regarding what the next administration brings to the industry adds to the timeliness....
The Washington D.C.-based trade association The Chamber of Digital Commerce has announced that it will be holding its first blockchain summit at Georgetown University on March 3. The packed agenda includes panels about smart contracts, banking and financial services, the recently launched Blockchain Alliance and consumer protections, along with talks with some of the blockchain’s biggest thought leaders and two keynotes anchoring the event. “We are bringing together industry and government to have a thoughtful discussion about the policy challenges regarding blockchain technology,” said....
Smart contracts can automate many different kinds of processes and operations, the most obvious being payment and actions conditional on payment. But the capabilities extend to many business and organizational activities. A white paper [PDF] by the Chamber of Digital Commerce with the support of the Smart Contracts Alliance presents 12 use cases of contracts for business and beyond. Nick Szabo in 1996 described a smart contract as “a set of promises, specified in digital form, including protocols within which the parties perform on these promises,” a definition that still describes the....
The Chamber of Digital Commerce, a trade association dedicated to promoting the understanding, acceptance and use of digital assets and blockchain technology, has announced the launch of the Smart Contracts Alliance (SCA), an industry initiative to promote the real-world application of smart contracts, educate and enhance the understanding and adoption of smart contracts, provide a forum to develop industry standards and help shape a pro-growth policy framework. “This initiative will be key in bridging the gap between concept and reality, and making smart contracts accessible across the....