A program the ledger runs and records the result of, so its behaviour can be checked afterwards by anyone reading the chain. Neither smart nor a contract; it is code with a public audit trail.

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Smart Contract — ArcBlock builds decentralized identity, user-owned data, Blocklet infrastructure, and AI-native application systems.

Why Our Smart Contracts Are Intentionally Non-Turing-Complete, and Why Every Contract Is an On-Chain NFT

EngineeringNov 13, 2026

Why Our Smart Contracts Are Intentionally Non-Turing-Complete, and Why Every Contract Is an On-Chain NFT

One of the biggest security misconceptions in crypto over the past decade was assuming smart contracts must be written in a Turing-complete general-purpose language. Here is why ArcBlock Chain replaces imperative bytecode with SQL-style atomic transaction blocks, a legal-contract-style declarative DSL, and verifiable on-chain Contract NFTs.

EngineeringNov 13, 2026

When Every NFT Is Born an Account, a Container, and a Contract: ArcBlock Chain's Unified Asset Design

Why did mainstream blockchains spend eight years bolting on complex smart contract patches like ERC-6551 just to give NFTs their own accounts, while ArcBlock Chain made every NFT a first-class account without changing a single table schema? Here is how our 'Everything is a DID' axiom unifies NFTs, FTs, prepaid cards, co-owned containers, and smart contracts.