With a budding market of widespread smart contract implementation on the horizon, there is much conversation about how to regulate this new technology. Discourse on standard form contracts (SFCs) and how they have been adopted in a digital environment is useful toward predicting how smart contracts might be interpreted. This essay provides a critical review of the discourse surrounding digitised SFCs and applies it to issues in smart contract regulation. An exploration of the literature surrounding specific instances SFCs finds that it lacks a close examination of the textual and documentary aspects of SFCs, which are particularly important in a digital environment as a shift in medium prompts a different procedural process. Instead, common perspectives are either based on outdated notions of paper versions of these contracts or on ideologies of industry and business that do not sufficiently address the needs of consumers/users in the digital age. Most importantly, noting the failure of contract law to address the inequities of SFCs in this environment can help prevent them from being codified further with smart contracts.

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标准格式合同和智能合约的未来

随着新兴智能合约实施市场的兴起，有关如何规范这项新技术的讨论很多。讨论标准格式合同（SFC）以及如何在数字环境中采用它们对于预测如何解释智能合同很有用。本文对围绕数字化SFC的论述进行了批判性审查，并将其应用于智能合约监管中的问题。对围绕特定实例SFC的文献进行的研究发现，它缺乏对SFC的文本和文献方面的仔细检查，这在数字环境中尤为重要，因为媒介的转移会引发不同的程序过程。代替，共同的观点是基于这些合同的纸本版本的过时概念，或者是基于未能充分满足数字时代消费者/用户需求的工业和商业意识形态。最重要的是，注意到合同法未能解决这种环境中SFC的不平等现象，可以帮助防止将它们与智能合同进一步编纂。