The Ethereum Virtual Machine
Bytecode execution.
What Is the EVM?
The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is the runtime that executes smart contract code on every Ethereum node.
It is a sandboxed, deterministic computer shared by the whole network.
A Global Computer
The EVM is often called a world computer. Every full node runs the same EVM and processes the same transactions, arriving at the same result.
This shared execution is what gives Ethereum a single, agreed-upon state.
All lessons in this course
- The Ethereum Virtual Machine
- Storage, Memory, Stack
- Opcodes
- Accounts and State