SMART CONTRACT AS A SUBJECT OF LEGAL REGULATION IN RUSSIA
This paper identifies some problems of legal regulation of smart contracts, the relevance of which will grow as such contracts spread in various spheres of life. Thus, the main problem of regulating relations on the use of a smart contract becomes the uncertainty about its legal essence, during the analysis of which the author comes to conclusion that smart contract is a form of registration and implementation of the terms of the transaction. Other issues raised in the study include the lack of a legal definition of a smart contract, the exclusively declarative nature of its legal regulation, the ambiguity of the range of public relations where contracts in this form are applicable, the problems of judicial regulation and the availability of a smart contract.