Smart contracts one essential feature that helps to differentiate ethereum from bitcoin, it also enables developers to build applications on top of ethereum blockchain to execute programming contracts automatically. (coinstocks.com)
But what's truly disruptive about the issuance isn't the use of cryptocurrency, rather it's that the bond will be cleared, settled and registered on the public ethereum blockchain. (coindesk.com)
One option is to download an ethereum client (a copy of the entire ethereum blockchain). (coindesk.com)