Consensys announced a research agreement with Smart Transaction Corp (STXN), enabling STXN to investigate ways to further enhance the composability and utility of Ethereum transaction semantics.
The research, which is separate from but complementary to MetaMask’s Smart Transactions feature launched in May 2024, will “be conducted by the STXN team and funded by Consensys.”
Vlad Zamfir, Co-Founder of STXN, as emphasized in his 2022 Devcon Bogotá presentation on Smart Transactions:
“Transactions face evolutionary pressure due to unexpectedly changing semantics, which is especially challenging in cross-chain contexts. Today, the transformation of EVM transaction semantics to smart transactions is well underway. It’s not just a deep technical problem but also a very delicate blockchain governance reorganization.”
Anuj Das Gupta, Co-Founder of STXN said:
“These new primitives open up entirely new categories of onchain experiences. They are like time machines wrapped in time capsules: they enable new context-aware conditional logic, from just-in-time liquidity provision and cron jobs to asynchronous execution and lazy onchain evaluation. This creates endless novel use cases. In many ways, smart transactions are an even bigger deal in the historical evolution of blockchain than ‘smart contracts‘.”
Jason Linehan, Director of the Special Mechanisms Group at Consensys said:
“The STXN team’s work in virtual validation and decentralized execution environments has been trailblazing. We are excited to see them develop these concepts even further.”
Consensys and STXN will be co-hosting “a side event during the second half of 2024 to present the initial findings of this research.”
As noted in the update, Smart Transaction Corp. (STXN) ships verifiable time machines on Ethereum. Co-founded by Vlad Zamfir & Anuj Das Gupta, STXN radically enhances Ethereum transaction semantics.
This opens entirely new categories “of blockchain uses that were not possible before.”
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