I’d like to elaborate on why I’m really attached to the idea of mobile code in Web3. Turing-complete safe binaries that can be picked up and run deterministically in a range of client environments.

I’d like to elaborate on why I’m really attached to the idea of mobile code in Web3. Turing-complete safe binaries that can be picked up and run deterministically in a range of client environments.
https://x.com/thomasoncrypto/status/1818756336726716606

It’s a concept with a long history, the glorious Canon Cat (commercial failure, but 20 years ahead of its time) used to let machines machines spawn Forth processes on each other as a core part of it’s networking stack.

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It’s a concept with a long history, the glorious Canon Cat (commercial failure, but 20 years ahead of its time) used to let machines machines spawn Forth processes on each other as a core part of it’s networking stack.
https://archive.org/details/canoncat


And back in the 90s Java applets were going to replace the static web

And back in the 90s Java applets were going to replace the static web
https://www.vice.com/en/article/8q8n3k/a-brief-history-of-the-java-applet

Ideally you want them to be tied to the smart contract code they interpret and reusable all the way down to the e-ink screen on a h/ware wallet.

Ideally you want them to be tied to the smart contract code they interpret and reusable all the way down to the e-ink screen on a h/ware wallet.
https://snaps.metamask.io


Ledger Plugin’s are great, but I need to make an effort to find and install them. That means the average user will still keep blind signing a blob.

Ledger Plugin’s are great, but I need to make an effort to find and install them. That means the average user will still keep blind signing a blob.
https://ethcc.io/archive/Securing-DeFi-A-sneak-peek-in-the-world-of-Ledger-Nano-Ethereum-plugins


We could at the very least resurrect the early work on Natspec natural language signing and try to make some standardised localisable dialog flow. Simple text-adventure style interaction works most places.

We could at the very least resurrect the early work on Natspec natural language signing and try to make some standardised localisable dialog flow. Simple text-adventure style interaction works most places. 
https://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/


And if we’re ever going after the dream of a smart contract on every shipping container, most of that’s going to need to run on the RFID tag’s 8-bit microcontroller. Nodejs and React ain’t gunna cut it!

Without it we have very little hope of solving the Blind Signing in a composable way. It’s all fine to have a DHTML client hosted on AWS for a single DEX, but what happens when I want to slide that into a ticking website? You need reusable blocks stapled to the contracts.
