Introduction

Smart contracts provide automation in blockchain solutions. They are immutable, decentralized and deterministic, which make them ideal to remove third-parties and let peer-to-peer interactions. Once aggreed between the parties and deployed on a distributed ledger, their activities and outcomes can be verified, so they can be trusted by all stakeholders. Everybody involved in DLTs are interested in smart contracts and the benefits they bring, but are also worried because there are many aspects about smart contracts they don't understand including legal and ethical insecurities. The main goal of this workgroup will be to enable users, developers, businessmen, decision makers and others interested in smart contracts to understand how they can be utilized among the different DLTs that are under the Hyperledger unbrella and also explore all potentials from deploying them to everyday software solution scenarios.

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• White Paper about smart contracts and the respected aspects concerning their usage

• Taxonomy for smart contracts in every day scenarios
• Performance of smart contracts across the different HL DLT frameworks

• Identifying use cases, case studies

• Find practical ways to connect stuff 'out there' with things we could use within our implementations

• Exploring security, privacy, legal boundaries

• Performance of smart contracts across the different HL DLT frameworks

• Identifying use cases, case studiesProposing solutions to the problems identified

• Survey the state of the art and academic content 

• Produce 'Requests To Build' that could feed into feature planning on the different Hyperledger frameworks

• Exploring security, privacy, legal boundaries

• Proposing solutions to the problems identified

• Identifying conferences or other opportunities to connect face to face

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The following individuals have already expressed an interest in joining this working group, and we hope they will become contributors over the first year:

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