I think Nick Szabo coined 'smart contract' in his 1996 Extropy paper. He had worked at Agorics and I don't know how much of it is their influence; from my pov the agorics papers were extraordinary, while I kind of bounced off that particular Szabo paper. Before Agorics, there was Amix which MarkM called something like the first smart contract platform, retrospectively. (I visited the Amix office during an 80s visit to SF, btw, but I didn't know anything about them then. Current DeFi people might see it as a stretch to apply the same term.)
Speaking of Extropy, Accelerando's universe owes a whole lot more to the extropians list.
oh, thanks! you could totally be right about szabo's paper; he was prominent on cypherpunks but i don't trust my memories of the language people were using on cypherpunks that far back
I think Nick Szabo coined 'smart contract' in his 1996 Extropy paper. He had worked at Agorics and I don't know how much of it is their influence; from my pov the agorics papers were extraordinary, while I kind of bounced off that particular Szabo paper. Before Agorics, there was Amix which MarkM called something like the first smart contract platform, retrospectively. (I visited the Amix office during an 80s visit to SF, btw, but I didn't know anything about them then. Current DeFi people might see it as a stretch to apply the same term.)
Speaking of Extropy, Accelerando's universe owes a whole lot more to the extropians list.