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Contract deployment

The onchain creation of a contract account with executable code.

PLAIN-ENGLISH DEFINITION

In more detail

Deployment puts a particular instance of a program on a particular chain. It consumes network resources and produces a contract address people can interact with. The same project's test-network deployment and production deployment are different instances, so checking the network and address matters even when their source code looks identical.

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How you might use it

The team shares its mainnet contract address after testing an earlier deployment; users check that address rather than reusing the testnet one.

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