Chain

This section covers the current Carbon validator from the developer point of view.

It is the reference area for chain-facing behavior that sits below the higher-level tooling docs:

• VM execution model and interop surface

• current contract execution contexts and lifecycle hooks

• low-level script/runtime concepts that matter when debugging or auditing VM behavior

Start Here

If you are building or deploying contracts, start with the VM section:

Virtual Machine

If you want the higher-level deployment workflow first, use:

Smart Contracts