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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.
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## Table of Contents
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- [Background](#background)
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- [Build and Install](#build-and-install)
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- [Example](#example)
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- [Documentation](#documentation)
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- [Development](#development)
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- [Maintainers](#maintainers)
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- [License](#license)
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## Background
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Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts
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that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Smart contracts are programs that are executed inside a peer-to-peer
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network where nobody has special authority over the execution, and thus they allow to implement tokens of value,
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ownership, voting and other kinds of logics.
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When deploying contracts, you should use the latest released version of
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Solidity. This is because breaking changes as well as new features and bug fixes are
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introduced regularly. We currently use a 0.x version
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number [to indicate this fast pace of change](https://semver.org/#spec-item-4).
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## Build and Install
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Instructions about how to build and install the Solidity compiler can be
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found in the [Solidity documentation](https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-solidity.html#building-from-source).
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## Example
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A "Hello World" program in Solidity is of even less use than in other languages, but still:
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```solidity
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pragma solidity ^0.6.0;
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contract HelloWorld {
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function helloWorld() external pure returns (string memory) {
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return "Hello, World!";
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}
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}
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```
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To get started with Solidity, you can use [Remix](https://remix.ethereum.org/), which is an
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browser-based IDE. Here are some example contracts:
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1. [Voting](https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#voting)
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2. [Blind Auction](https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#blind-auction)
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3. [Safe remote purchase](https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#safe-remote-purchase)
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4. [Micropayment Channel](https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html#micropayment-channel)
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## Documentation
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The Solidity documentation is hosted at [Read the docs](https://solidity.readthedocs.io).
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## Development
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Solidity is still under development. Contributions are always welcome!
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Please follow the
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[Developers Guide](https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html)
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if you want to help.
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You can find our current feature and bug priorities for forthcoming
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releases [in the projects section](https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/projects).
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## Maintainers
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* [@axic](https://github.com/axic)
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* [@chriseth](https://github.com/chriseth)
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## License
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Solidity is licensed under [GNU General Public License v3.0](LICENSE.txt).
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Some third-party code has its [own licensing terms](cmake/templates/license.h.in).
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