A smart contract can enforce a deal. But can it tell whether the deal was actually fulfilled? Imagine a DeFi escrow tied to a seller’s written terms on a website. The funds are locked, and the release condition is coded in advance. But what if fulfilling that condition requires reading the terms and interpreting evidence? The contract can execute its instructions perfectly while still depending on someone else to say what happened. That’s the part of decentralization worth questioning. @GenLayer’s Intelligent Contracts can access the live web and use language models to evaluate conditions that ordinary smart contracts cannot interpret on their own. And the decision doesn’t simply rest on one model’s answer. Validators independently run the contract using their own models. If they disagree, another round can follow, and the decision can be appealed. This doesn’t make mistakes impossible. It means the system has a process for checking a judgment instead of blindly accepting one report. For me, that’s the real distinction: automating a transaction is one thing. Evaluating the conditions behind it is another. If you were locking funds in an escrow, what evidence would you want the contract to examine before releasing your money?