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What Is the Role of ‘Solidity’ in Relation to the EVM?

Solidity is the primary high-level programming language used to write smart contracts for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). It is a contract-oriented language.

The Solidity code is compiled into EVM bytecode, which is the machine language that the EVM can execute directly on the blockchain.

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