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Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language
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# The Solidity Contract-Oriented Programming Language



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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 official [Solidity Language Portal](https://soliditylang.org).



## Table of Contents



- [Background](#background)

- [Build and Install](#build-and-install)

- [Example](#example)

- [Documentation](#documentation)

- [Development](#development)

- [Maintainers](#maintainers)

- [License](#license)

- [Security](#security)



## Background



Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts

that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Smart contracts are programs that are executed inside a peer-to-peer

network 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 of

Solidity. This is because breaking changes, as well as new features and bug fixes, are

introduced regularly. We currently use a 0.x version

number [to indicate this fast pace of change](https://semver.org/#spec-item-4).



## Build and Install



Instructions about how to build and install the Solidity compiler can be

found in the [Solidity documentation](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/installing-solidity.html#building-from-source).



## Example



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



```solidity

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

pragma solidity >=0.6.0 <0.9.0;



contract HelloWorld {

    function helloWorld() external pure returns (string memory) {

        return "Hello, World!";

    }

}

```



To get started with Solidity, you can use [Remix](https://remix.ethereum.org/), which is a

browser-based IDE. Here are some example contracts:



1. [Voting](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#voting)

2. [Blind Auction](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#blind-auction)

3. [Safe remote purchase](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#safe-remote-purchase)

4. [Micropayment Channel](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#micropayment-channel)



## Documentation



The Solidity documentation is hosted using [Read the Docs](https://docs.soliditylang.org).



## Development



Solidity is still under development. Contributions are always welcome!

Please follow the

[Developers Guide](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/contributing.html)

if you want to help.



You can find our current feature and bug priorities for forthcoming

releases in the [projects section](https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/projects).



## Maintainers

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

The core team is sponsored by the [Ethereum Foundation](https://ethereum.foundation/).



## License

Solidity is licensed under [GNU General Public License v3.0](LICENSE.txt).



Some third-party code has its [own licensing terms](cmake/templates/license.h.in).



## Security



The security policy may be [found here](SECURITY.md).