Authors:
(1) Christopher D. Clack, Centre for Blockchain Technologies, Department of Computer Science, University College London;
(2) Vikram A. Bakshi, Investment Bank CTO Office, Barclays;
(3) Lee Braine, Investment Bank CTO Office, Barclays. Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Foundations and 2.1 Terminology — “smart contracts” 2.2 Automation 2.3 Enforceability 2.4 The semantics of contracts 3 Smart Contract Templates 3.1 Templates and Parameters 3.2 The design landscape for Smart Contract Templates 4 Summary and Further Work and References 3 Smart Contract Templates Smart Contract Templates provide a framework to support complex legal agreements for financial instruments, based on standardised templates. Following Grigg’s Ricardian Contract triple [9], they use parameters to connect legal prose to the corresponding computer code, with the aim of providing a legally-enforceable foundation for smart legal contracts. Complex sets of legal documentation can be augmented with the identification of operational parameters that are key to directing the behaviour of the smart contract code (in this paper we call these “code parameters”) — the smart contract code is assumed to be standardised code whose behaviour can be controlled by the input of such parameters. Here we explore the design landscape for the implementation of Smart Contract Templates. We observe that the landscape is broad and that there are many potentially viable sets of design decisions. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. Authors: (1) Christopher D. Clack, Centre for Blockchain Technologies, Department of Computer Science, University College London; (2) Vikram A. Bakshi, Investment Bank CTO Office, Barclays; (3) Lee Braine, Investment Bank CTO Office, Barclays. Authors: Authors: (1) Christopher D. Clack, Centre for Blockchain Technologies, Department of Computer Science, University College London; (2) Vikram A. Bakshi, Investment Bank CTO Office, Barclays; (3) Lee Braine, Investment Bank CTO Office, Barclays. Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Foundations and 2.1 Terminology — “smart contracts” 2 Foundations and 2.1 Terminology — “smart contracts” 2.2 Automation 2.2 Automation 2.3 Enforceability 2.3 Enforceability 2.4 The semantics of contracts 2.4 The semantics of contracts 3 Smart Contract Templates 3 Smart Contract Templates 3.1 Templates and Parameters 3.1 Templates and Parameters 3.2 The design landscape for Smart Contract Templates 3.2 The design landscape for Smart Contract Templates 4 Summary and Further Work and References 4 Summary and Further Work and References 3 Smart Contract Templates Smart Contract Templates provide a framework to support complex legal agreements for financial instruments, based on standardised templates. Following Grigg’s Ricardian Contract triple [9], they use parameters to connect legal prose to the corresponding computer code, with the aim of providing a legally-enforceable foundation for smart legal contracts. Complex sets of legal documentation can be augmented with the identification of operational parameters that are key to directing the behaviour of the smart contract code (in this paper we call these “code parameters”) — the smart contract code is assumed to be standardised code whose behaviour can be controlled by the input of such parameters. Here we explore the design landscape for the implementation of Smart Contract Templates. We observe that the landscape is broad and that there are many potentially viable sets of design decisions. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. available on arxiv

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