# Extension Chains: smart contracts for NoM

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**Created:** [June 21, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](http://forum.zenon.org/t/extension-chains-smart-contracts-for-nom/1512 "2023-06-21T13:04:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](http://forum.zenon.org/t/extension-chains-smart-contracts-for-nom/1512/93 "2024-02-03T18:43:17Z")

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I like Supernova ZVM. It feels like lotion on my brain.

> [@Extension Chain vs ZVM](https://forum.zenon.org/t/extension-chain-vs-zvm/1794):
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> Rather than coming out of the gate with the sidechain-L2-extension stuff, how about leading with ‘virtual machines’. VM verbiage is increasingly trending and from a copywriting perspective I think VM is a much stronger term and the other stuff that hurts my aesthetic soul to mention. VM verbiage is self-descriptive and very easy to work with in terms of logic and language because rather than uttering a term that requires further definition, virtual machine implicitly describes what it is and w…

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