# Introduction to Smart Contracts

## What are Smart Contracts?

Smart contracts are programs that execute on the blockchain. They enforce persistent rules, manage assets, automate actions, and run shared logic in a secure, deterministic, and verifiable way. In EVE Frontier, smart contracts are the foundation for Smart Assembly functionality and on-chain business logic. Contracts are written in [Move](https://docs.sui.io/concepts/sui-move-concepts) and deployed to [Sui](https://sui.io/).

Sui validators compile and verify Move modules, execute transactions on the Move VM, and persist the resulting state on-chain. This ensures that all business logic runs deterministically and that any participant can verify correctness.

## Next Steps

* [Move Documentation](https://move-book.com/concepts/) — Move concepts.
* [Move Patterns in Frontier](/smart-contracts/move-patterns-in-frontier.md) — Key Move patterns used in the world contracts.
* [EVE Frontier World Explainer](/smart-contracts/eve-frontier-world-explainer.md) — Overview of the world architecture.
* [World Contracts](https://github.com/evefrontier/world-contracts) — Source code and examples.


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