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How Do Smart Contracts Facilitate the Creation of Exotic Options with Complex Payoff Structures?

Smart contracts excel at facilitating exotic options because complex payoff structures can be precisely defined in code. The rules for the option's payout, which might depend on multiple assets, price barriers, or specific time windows, can be programmed directly into the contract.

This automates the monitoring of these complex conditions and guarantees the execution of the payoff without ambiguity or dispute, as long as the conditions are met. This opens up possibilities for highly customized derivative products that would be administratively burdensome to manage through traditional financial infrastructure.

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