For Bitcoin Wednesday’s 5-Year Anniversary, Ilya Smagin will give a presentation on smart contracts. Ilya is the head of smart contract development for the Waves Platform. The project raised $16 million through a crowd sale held in the spring of 2016, and a little more than 2 years later is valued at more than $343 million.

At Bitcoin Wednesday, Ilya will discuss the differences between the various smart contract technologies as well as the future direction of this functionality and the decentralized applications that will be built with it. He will also begin his talk with an overview of what smart contracts really are.