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Smart Contracts
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Ethereum Virtual Machine: the runtime environment that executes smart contract bytecode on Ethereum-like chains. It defines the instruction set, gas accounting, and state access rules.
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...ng-complete programming language for writing contract code that executes in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), a stack-based execution environment that processes transactions and stat...
Ethereum State Transition Function
...action. If the recipient is a contract account, the contract's code runs in the Ethereum Virtual Machine, consuming gas for each operation until either the code completes successfully,...
Code Execution
The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is the runtime environment where contract code executes—a low-level, stac...
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