Yan Ying, CTO of Ant Digital Technology: Launching "Agentic Contract"

According to Bijie.com, at the 2025 Inclusion·Bund Conference Token Economic Forum, Ant Digital Technology CTO Yan Ying announced the launch of the new "Agentic Contract" that will be deployed natively on its new generation of Layer2 blockchain Jovay. "This is a fundamental upgrade for smart contracts." She said that smart contracts will transform from "automation" based on preset rules to "autonomy" with environmental perception and dynamic decision-making capabilities, helping to intelligently transition the global value network. As the core execution program of blockchain, smart contracts are the center of the automatic operation of blockchain networks. Yan Ying explained that today's smart contract is essentially an automatic executor of preset rules - "If condition A is met, action B is executed". It has no perception ability, cannot reason, and cannot deal with complex or unknown scenarios. In other words, it is "agile" but not "intelligent".