Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on Ethereum.

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Solidity is an object-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts. Smart contracts are programs that govern the behavior of accounts within the Ethereum state.

To install the most recent 0.4.x / 0.5.x version of Solidity you can also use brew install solidity@4 and brew install solidity@5, respectively. If you need a specific version of Solidity you can …

A contract in the sense of Solidity is a collection of code (its functions) and data (its state) that resides at a specific address on the Ethereum blockchain. The line uintstoredData; declares a …

Solidity is similar to Python in that it uses C3 Linearization to force a specific order in the directed acyclic graph (DAG) of base classes. This results in the desirable property of monotonicity but …

With Solidity, you can create contracts for uses such as voting, crowdfunding, blind auctions, and multi-signature wallets and much more! Below we list some of the most popular use cases.

6 days ago · The Road to Core Solidity Solidity has just reached its 10-year mark. This is a perfect opportunity for us to present "The Road to Core Solidity", a series of blog posts through which …

Solidity provides a built-in function ecrecover that accepts a message along with the r, s and v parameters and returns the address that was used to sign the message.

Jan 29, 2025 · The place to discuss design and usage of and changes to the Solidity programming language.