In the preceding chapter, you learned how to use Solidity to create instructions for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. However, you stopped short of uploading your program to the EVM, a process known generally in computer application development as deployment. This chapter presents the process by which you can deploy your Solidity scripts ...
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5. Smart Contracts and Tokens
Small reusable code templates (in programming terms, classes) written in Solidity are called smart contracts, a nod to financial contracts. You can think of smart contracts as being suited to creating financial derivatives as a web service—with a few twists
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