The current landscape of smart contract distribution on the Ethereum network is fragmented and inefficient.

Services like Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS), Aragon OSx, and others implement their own semantic versioning attempts.

However, these solutions are not generalized, leading to a lack of uniformity and increased complexity.

This also results EIP712 built in versioning field largely underused.

Moreover, projects generate numerous deployment artifacts that cannot be optimized in node memory because of built metadata affecting hashes.

This practice results in a significant increase in blockchain size for node operators, far beyond what is necessary.

The absence of a trusted ecosystem to exchange functional code pieces (distributions) exacerbates the problem, making it difficult to manage and verify deployment artifacts efficiently and blocks novel applications built on ethereum, which trust each other by-design.

EDS aims to address these challenges by providing a generalized, decentralized, and fully on-chain distribution system. By leveraging semantic versioning, efficient factory frameworks, and robust security measures, EDS seeks to create a more streamlined and secure environment for distributing and managing smart contracts on the Ethereum network.