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Smart Contracts and the EVM

Explore how smart contracts function as autonomous programs on the Ethereum blockchain and discover the Ethereum Virtual Machine's role as the decentralized engine that executes these contracts securely, enabling developers to build and deploy scalable dApps.

Smart contracts

Smart contracts are programs that run on the Ethereum blockchain when certain conditions are met. We learned that contracts are a type of Ethereum account. They are not controlled by a user but run without any interruption or central body once they’re deployed.

Smart contracts hold value in the form of ETH and can store data on the ...