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• The SYNTAX LLM will compile, test, and deploy Ethereum-based smart contract code, based off your natural language prompts.

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Remember the other week when we wrote about an AI model that would let you code Web3 apps with your voice?

The basic gist was this:

Ava Labs, the team behind Avalanche, is working on building an AI interface that would take in natural language prompts (written, or spoken) and return smart contract code (which is what powers Web3 applications).

Only problem was:

The tech was still thought to be ten years away.

Now, that might still be true for the team at Ava Labs — but we just learned that the situation is a little different over at a place called Spectral Labs, where they’ve already got a natural language coding model live and in the field!

The platform is called SYNTAX, and in short:

You state your intent, and SYNTAX does the rest: compiling, testing, and deploying Ethereum-based smart contract code.

It's said to allow users to begin building a DAO with no coding knowledge, write logic for Web3 games, and easily create memecoins.

Is it perfect?

No.

In fact, calling what we saw in some of their demos “natural language” is a stretch — it appears you still need have a pretty good grip on blockchain coding terminology in order to write a successful prompt.

(E.g. ‘Write a contract that calls the UniswapV2Router02 contract and retrieves the factory address’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).

But it’s no doubt a huge efficiency bump for blockchain developers, a helpful onramp for the crypto-coding curious, and at the very least:

A glimpse at a future where idiots like our intern (Kevin) can code Web3 apps with their voice.

Very cool!