In 2017, Blockstream set out to develop a smart contract language that outperforms Bitcoin Script and EVM, offering more expressiveness with stronger safety assurances. Eight years later, we believe we have achieved this with Simplicity.

With the arrival of Simplicity on the Liquid Network mainnet today, we now have, for the first time, a clean foundation for serious financial applications, free from the complexity and patchwork of risks that defined the last era of DeFi.