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Glossary

Administration​

Functions that provide administrative control over the contract, typically reserved for the contract's owner or privileged entities.

Deal Management​

Functions that enable the creation, acceptance, rejection, and cancellation of deals between clients and providers.

ERC20 Token​

A standard interface for fungible tokens on EVM compatible blockchains, which defines functions and events that the token contract should implement.

Event​

In Solidity, events act as a logging mechanism to store data that can be easily accessed from outside the blockchain.

Modifier​

Function decorators in Solidity used to modify the behavior of functions, often for conditions like access control.

Provider Management​

Functions dedicated to the registration, deregistration, and update of CDN providers' offers.

Staking​

Refers to holding and locking up cryptocurrency in a wallet to support operations of a blockchain network. In the context of smart contracts, it can be for collateral or commitment purposes.

Struct​

A composite data type in Solidity allowing for grouping of multiple variables of varying data types.

Utility Functions​

Functions that offer insights or facilitate checks concerning the contract's state or operations.