January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
372 pages
11h 17m
English
Content preview from Foundations of Blockchain
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NEO smart contract
Smart contracts are one of the features that highlight the NEO blockchain. Writing smart contracts in a NEO blockchain system is a fairly simple process compared to other smart contract platforms, mainly due to the support it has for a huge number of general-purpose languages in which smart contracts could be created. Unlike Ethereum, NEO doesn't need a domain-specific language to create and execute smart contracts.
NEO has a lightweight virtual machine that is similar to the JVM for Java. NEO's virtual machine executes smart contract instructions in sequence. NEO virtual machines only execute the instructions that are compiled by the NEO compilers. NEO plans to support compilers for languages such as C#, Java, C, C++, ...