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A Beginner's Guide to Reading and Writing Smart Contracts on Explorers
- Experienced players in the Verdant mining game interacted with smart contracts directly via blockchain explorers like Abscan or Etherscan.
- Blockchain explorers serve as search engines for blockchain data, showing transaction histories, smart contract interactions, and more.
- Smart contracts are self-executing programs on the blockchain, immutable, transparent, trustless, and automatic.
- Interacting with smart contracts offers advantages like transparency, direct access, advanced features, lower fees, learning, and troubleshooting.
- Users can find smart contracts on explorers by searching for contract addresses, project names, or related transactions.
- Verified contracts show source code, ABI, constructor arguments, and creation code for transparency.
- Reading from a smart contract is a view-only operation that doesn't incur gas fees, while writing requires transactions and gas fees.
- Understanding function parameters and transaction details, including logs and events, are essential for smart contract interaction.
- Safety considerations include verifying contract addresses, starting small, checking read functions first, and understanding actions.
- Direct interaction with smart contracts through explorers provides independence, insight, and sometimes a competitive advantage in blockchain applications.
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