Legal scholars and professionals have long discussed the potential of computable contracts, with machine-readable and self-executing legal language, for transactional applications. These days, those conversations are coming closer to reality.

Legal smart contract consortium Accord Project last week released Ergo, the consortium’s first working prototype of a legal smart contract programming language. The prototype source code and documentation is publicly available on GitHub.

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