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# Solidity

## The Solidity Language

æternity has limited support for the Solidity language bytecode and ABI. There are a number of test cases and some scaffolding code. However, it is not mature enough to be part of consensus and thus the Solidity ABI is not allowed on chain.

For a full description of Solidity see [The Solidity Specification](https://solidity.readthedocs.io/).

### The Solidity\_01 ABI <a href="#the-solidity_01-abi" id="the-solidity_01-abi"></a>

Note that the Solidity\_01 ABI specifies that the create contract initial call returns the actual bytecode to be stored in the contract state tree to be used for future calls.

See [The Solidity Specification:ABI](https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/abi-spec.html)

#### Storing the contract state <a href="#storing-the-contract-state" id="storing-the-contract-state"></a>

Contracts store the VM storage map containing 256 bit binaries for both keys and values in the MPT. Undefined keys are treated as having the value 0 and keys bound to the value zero are stored as the empty binary, thus purging them from the tree.


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