Core Contracts

There are currently 7 core smart contracts that are always deployed on each chain. These are responsible for the vital functions of the chain and provide infrastructure for all other smart contracts:

• root: Responsible for the initialization of the chain, maintains registry of deployed contracts.

• accounts: Manages the on-chain ledger of accounts.

• blocklog: Keeps track of the blocks and receipts of requests that were processed by the chain.

• governance: Handles the administrative functions of the chain. For example: rotation of the committee of validators of the chain, fees and other chain-specific configurations.

• errors: Keeps a map of error codes to error messages templates. These error codes are used in request receipts.

• evm: Provides the necessary infrastructure to accept Ethereum transactions and execute EVM code.