The IOTA Foundation, the non-profit driving open-source distributed ledger technology for a new digital economy, announced the beta release of IOTA Smart Contracts in a release shared with CryptoSlate.
The fully functional smart contract solution offers a number of new features aimed at resolving current scalability and transaction fee issues while offering new features currently unmatched in the crypto space.
The IOTA Smart Contracts Beta enables users to create and execute custom smart contracts on a feeless network for the first time. It also comes with Ethereum Virtual Machine EVM support, the current industry standard. Developers can now write Solidity smart contracts inside an IOTA chain that is anchored on the feels EVM Tangle.
The feature supports several programming languages, including Go, Rust and Ethereum Solidity. This choice is in line with the IOTA Foundation's commitment to interoperability and standardization, two cornerstone principles of the new digital economy.
Unlike Ethereum, IOTA Smart Contracts allow developers to set their own execution fees. This dynamic pricing creates an incentive to drive fees down since different chains can compete for the work of executing a smart contract.
The most unique feature of IOTA Smart Contracts is its scalability and interoperability. The network already offers full sharding, making it possible to scale smart contracts beyond the current limitations on other networks.
By leveraging native tokenization on the IOTA Ledger, all Smart Contracts are able to wrap assets onto the base layer. This makes all digital assets and smart contracts created on IOTA fully interoperable without the need for trusted relays or bridges. This will enable powerful new composability for dApp developers and new possibilities for users to engage in the ecosystem.
With the IOTA Smart Contracts Schema tool, users can input the functionalities they wish to include into the smart contract they are writing and have the system automatically generate and test the appropriate boilerplate code.
We have integrated some of the defining features of IOTA interoperability, flexibility, feeless transactions into a new contract solution for a new generation that we believe will become industry standard once it is released on the IOTA mainnet. We invite as many users as possible to try out the current Smart Contracts Beta and to see for themselves how much potential this release has, said Dominik Schiener, co-founder and Chairman of the IOTA Foundation.
The IOTA Smart Contracts Beta can be tested on the IOTA 2.0 DevNet.