Programmability
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In the context of ledger platforms, programmability means the ability to incorporate contingent instructions that can be executed without human intervention.
- Benefits of programmability
- "Tokenisation – the process of recording claims on financial or real assets that exist on a traditional ledger on a programmable platform – introduces two important capabilities.
- First, by dispensing with messaging and the reliance on account managers to update records, it provides greater scope for composability, whereby several actions are bundled into one executable package.
- Second, it enables the contingent performance of actions through smart contracts, ie logical statements such as “if, then, or else”.
- By combining composability and contingency, tokenisation makes the conditional performance of actions more readily attainable, even quite complex ones...
- Moreover, programmability allows new types of contingent payment, while certain policy measures (eg capital controls) can be built in from the start."
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Annual Economic Report 2023, pages 89 & 91.
See also
- Account
- Balance sheet
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Cash management
- Central bank
- Central bank digital currency (CBDC)
- Central bank money
- Composability
- Contingency
- Cryptocurrency
- Currency
- Digital currency
- Distributed ledger
- Financial asset
- Helvetia III
- Infrastructure
- Money
- Multi-CBDC arrangement
- Platform
- Real asset
- Reconciliation
- Reserve
- Retail central bank digital currency
- Sight deposits
- Smart contract
- Stablecoin
- Tokenise
- Wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC)