Ant Digital Technologies launches intelligent agent contracts, to be natively deployed on its Layer2 blockchain Jovay

Jinse Finance reported that at the 2025 Inclusion·Bund Conference Token Economy Forum, Ant Digital Technologies CTO Yan Ying announced the launch of the brand-new "Agentic Contract," which will be natively deployed on its next-generation Layer2 blockchain Jovay. "This is a fundamental upgrade for smart contracts," she stated. Smart contracts will transform from "automation" based on preset rules to "autonomy" with environmental awareness and dynamic decision-making capabilities, facilitating an intelligent leap for the global value network. As the core execution program of blockchain, smart contracts are the central hub for the automatic operation of blockchain networks. Yan Ying explained that today's smart contracts are essentially automatic executors of preset rules—"if condition A is met, then execute action B." They lack perception, cannot reason, and are unable to handle complex or unknown scenarios. In other words, they are "agile" but not "intelligent."