The Blockchain and Smart Contracts Discussion Group operates under the Kantara Initiative IPR Policies - Option Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (HTML version). JOIN | SUBSCRIBE | ARCHIVE | CALENDAR | CHARTER | MINUTES | USE CASES | REPORT The purpose of this Kantara DG is to initiate a broad discussion on various aspects of smart contracts and blockchain systems. The DG launched on July 5, 2016 and intends to meet for six months, delivering a briefing note . It will deliver a report at the end of that time that answers these questions: What is blockchainWhat is CommonAccordWhat are the kinds of contracts that have "smarts"Use cases for the aboveIssue identification and analysis for the aboveoffers recommendations and observations to Kantara regarding solving use cases for empowering traditionally disempowered parties (such as individuals) to "contract and transact" e.g. with parties that traditionally hold greater power (such as companies and large countries), given the new landscape of decentralization and distributed technologies and techniques and their mixture with identity. |