March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition
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Smart contracts
We discussed smart contracts at length in the preceding Chapter 9, Smart Contracts. It is sufficient to say here that Ethereum supports the development of smart contracts that run on the EVM. Different languages can be used to build smart contracts, and we will discuss this in the programming section and at a deeper level in Chapter 13, Development Tools and Frameworks and Chapter 14, Introducing Web3.
There are also various contracts that are available in the precompiled format in Ethereum blockchain to support different functions. These contracts, known as precompiled contracts or native contracts are described in the following subsections.
These are not strictly smart contracts in the sense of user programmed solidity smart ...