Solidity
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
Solidity is a statically-typed programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on the EVM. With Solidity, developers are able to write applications that implement self-enforcing business logic embodied in smart contracts, leaving a non-repudiable and authoritative record of transactions
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