I will be working on a new smart contract platform that I believe will offer fundamentally transformative capabilities within the blockchain industry

I suspect it will be a competitor to ethereum, that runs smarter, and leaner. It also probably will allow interopability between Bitshares, Steem, and other chains (that's where the "transformative capabilities" come into play)

Either way:

if Dan's working on it, it's gonna be good. (tm)