Since bitcoin is a currency, of course most of the goal is to gain financial advantages. Bitcoin is applicable in all sectors that have economic and business elements.
. The smart contracts
The bitcoin protocol wasn't specifically designed for this purpose (to the best of my knowledge to date), so I don't know which bitcoin you're talking about. I just found something like that here (forked coin)...
https://coingeek.com/bitcoin101/bitcoin-smart-contracts/