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Solidity is a statically-typed, contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts on the Ethereum platform.

For a good overview and starting point, please check out the officialSolidity Language Portal.

• Background
• Build and Install
• Example
• Documentation
• Development
• Maintainers
• License
• Security

Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contractsthat run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Smart contracts are programs that are executed inside a peer-to-peernetwork where nobody has special authority over the execution, and thus they allow anyone to implement tokens of value,ownership, voting, and other kinds of logic.

When deploying contracts, you should use the latest released version ofSolidity. This is because breaking changes, as well as new features and bug fixes, areintroduced regularly. We currently use a 0.x versionnumberto indicate this fast pace of change.

Instructions about how to build and install the Solidity compiler can befound in theSolidity documentation.

A "Hello World" program in Solidity is of even less use than in other languages, but still:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MITpragma solidity>=0.6.0<0.9.0;contractHelloWorld {function helloWorld()externalpurereturns (stringmemory) {return"Hello, World!";    }}

To get started with Solidity, you can useRemix, which is abrowser-based IDE. Here are some example contracts:

1. Voting
2. Blind Auction
3. Safe remote purchase
4. Micropayment Channel

The Solidity documentation is hosted usingRead the Docs.

Solidity is still under development. Contributions are always welcome!Please follow theDeveloper's Guideif you want to help.

You can find our current feature and bug priorities for forthcomingreleases in theprojects section.

The Solidity programming language and compiler are open-source community projects governed by a core team.The core team is sponsored by theEthereum Foundation.

Solidity is licensed underGNU General Public License v3.0.

Some third-party code has itsown licensing terms.

The security policy may befound here.