!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] are [protocols] that facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of a contract, or that make a contractual clause unnecessary. 

[{$pagename}] usually also have a user interface and often emulate the logic of contractual clauses. 

Proponents of [{$pagename}] claim that many kinds of contractual clauses may thus be made partially or fully self-executing, self-enforcing, or both. 

[{$pagename}] aim to provide security superior to traditional [contract] [law] and to reduce other transaction costs associated with contracting.

One real-world [{$pagename}] that gained mainstream coverage was The [DAO], a [Decentralized Autonomous Organization] for venture capital funding, running on [Ethereum], which was launched with US$250 million in crowdfunding in May 2016 and was hacked and drained of 3,689,577 ETH three weeks later.

[{$pagename}] typically use [Byzantine Fault Tolerance] [Algorithms] through [Distributed Ledger Technology] to provide [Security]

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