Canister smart contract

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Canisters are smart contracts that scale — interoperable compute units designed for internet-scale services.

Advantages over other types of smart contracts

Canisters have all the features of smart contracts on other blockchains (such as Ethereum). "In contrast to smart contracts, however, canisters have performance characteristics that makes it possible to use them to build software services that scale[1]. Canisters are better suited for distributed systems and concurrency because of their embracing of the Actor model.


Their number

The number of canisters on the IC are represented in the IC dashboard.

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