As our dear readers widely know, Statebox is a company that heavily relies on category theory for the development of its products. Attention towards category theory by academia is not at all surprising. …

Hello everyone! As promised, this post continues the story about behavioral programming done with Petri nets. In the last post, we modeled the dining philosophers problem to highlight how and why behavioral programming can be useful. In this blogpost we focus on modeling a smart contract using Petri net. …

À la functional way, through examples The Statebox language has come a long way in the past year, and so it’s time to illustrate how programming using Statebox works. Sure, the monograph details the mathematics behind Statebox but how do you actually use it? Our codebase will soon be made public for everyone to read, but…

I’ve always been into hacking since the late nineties, when being less than ten years old I casually discovered IRC. …

Note: This article was first published in Rethinking Law, issue 1, on 31 October 2018. Since the advent of Ethereum, one of the keystones of blockchain [1] infrastructure has been smart contracts [2]. Technically, as far as we are concerned, a smart contract is nothing more than a piece of…

I claim that compositionality is extremely delicate, and that it is so powerful that it is worth going to extreme lengths to achieve it. [Jules Hedges] Having worked on compositional structures for my PhD degree, I am used to hearing about compositionality a lot. Though to my utmost surprise, the…

Some time ago Statebox founder and friend Jelle told me about the Critical Engineering manifesto. Many people in the Statebox team grew up in the first age of the internet, when hacking things was easier, new acquaintances could be made just by joining an IRC chatroom and copyright laws/privacy violations…

Statebox has received a lot of hype and attention in the last months. Nevertheless, we admittedly released very little information about what we are working on, and about the development state of our project in general. …