What kind of actual real world use-cases has ethereum's programmable "contracts" enabled? It's been out there for a while yet I fail to see where it made an impact.
Most of them are interoperable with each other instead of trying to be unique and original, which has sparked something analogous to the Industrial Revolution over the last year.
For anyone else passing by, on the technical side, this is because of the "composability" concept coming to fruition in early 2020, the idea that outputs from one team's smart contracts can be used as the inputs for a different team's smart contracts.
[0]: https://althea.net/
* privacy technology (tornado cash, AZTEC)
* DeFi (MakerDAO, Uniswap, Compound, Augur, etc)
https://www.coinspeaker.com/first-ilo-launches-avalanche/
I think we'll see many more of these in the future.
Do you want to be inspired and be part of that ecosystem, or do you want to drone on about how you could do any example use case some other irrelevant way that nobody can interact with