One of the hottest features of blockchain is its ability to facilitate smart contracts. While the fintech, banking, and legal services industries are already dabbling with automated transactions that execute based on preset conditions, a whole host of other business are clueless that they, too, could benefit from smart contracts. By introducing manufacturing, supply chain management, and other sectors to the concept of smart contracts, developers will reap handsome rewards while helping to reshape those industries. How can smart contracts be useful in these and other non-legal use cases? The answer becomes clear when you consider more closely what what smart contracts allow you to do. Since smart contracts are simply blocks of code, they can be incorporated into a variety of software applications. But including them in a blockchain is best way to add security, accountability, and transparency to the process.