✍️. Smart Contract City

In a virtual city called "Etherea", houses are not built with bricks, but with chains. There is no signing with a pen, but with smart contracts. The people there do not trust each other because they do not need to trust — everything is programmed to execute as agreed.

"Layla" was a code engineer, spending her days weaving codes like a widow weaves her net, programming contract after contract for clients from all corners of the earth. No lawyer, no intermediary, just her and "Ethereum".

"Yusuf" entered, a young man who does not understand programming, but carries an idea: a project that allows artists to sell their paintings as non-fungible tokens. NFT.

He said: "I want a smart contract... one that does not betray me nor betray them."

Layla looked at him with a mysterious smile, as if she knew something he did not.

"Do you trust the code more than humans?" she asked.

"I trust that humans are the ones who corrupt, but the code... does not lie."

She paused for a moment, then wrote the first line:

pragma solidity ^0.8.0;

This is how the magic begins.

A week later, the platform launched. One painting was sold for a hundred Ethereum. In an instant, Yusuf became a millionaire… in a world with no limits, except for its speed.

But one night, he discovered a flaw. The smart contract executes what it is asked, not what is intended. He lost everything.

He returned to Layla, his voice broken.

"You said that the code does not lie…"

She replied calmly:

"Yes, but it does not understand intentions… it just executes."