Blockchain platform Waves reported that following the support of new functionality on the part of the miners the first phase of the smart contract is activated in the core network and is available today to developers.

We are very happy to announce that Smart Accounts have been activated on #Waves MainNet! As of block #1,190,000, the first phase of Waves #SmartContracts are available: https://t.co/4e0MjdYQ3U#WavesPlatform #Blockchain $WAVES

— Waves Platform (@wavesplatform) 26 September 2018

Activation took place on Wednesday, September 26, on the block #1,190,000.

“It was one of the most anticipated features, and the miners voted to support it quickly and convincingly”, — stated in the message Waves.

New system log for the activation of smart contracts in the core network Waves was released on 10 September. With their help developers will have the ability of implementing different functions in the framework of the so-called smart account, including addresses from multipoles, freezing token, atomic swaps, and vote oracles.

“This will not only make the platform more secure and flexible, providing additional tools for companies and end users, but will offer a completely new application scenarios and challenges for a powerful decentralized applications”, — said the developers.

In the next phase command Waves will launch its Turing complete smart contracts, which will provide a much wider range of functions for ecosystems Waves.

We will remind, last week the founder of Waves Alexander Ivanov announced plans to launch a decentralized exchange for security tokens.

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