diff --git a/public/content/developers/docs/intro-to-ethereum/index.md b/public/content/developers/docs/intro-to-ethereum/index.md index 56cbee11a9b..02ef5ed5f09 100644 --- a/public/content/developers/docs/intro-to-ethereum/index.md +++ b/public/content/developers/docs/intro-to-ethereum/index.md @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ ETH is also used to provide crypto-economic security to the network in three mai ## What are smart contracts? {#what-are-smart-contracts} -In practice, participants don't write new code every time they want to request a computation on the EVM. Rather, application developers upload programs (reusable snippets of code) into EVM state, and users make requests to execute these code snippets with varying parameters. We call the programs uploaded to and executed by the network smart contracts. +In practice, participants don't write new code every time they want to request a computation on the EVM. Rather, application developers upload programs (reusable snippets of code) into EVM state, and users make requests to execute these code snippets with varying parameters. We call the programs uploaded to and executed by the network "smart contracts". At a very basic level, you can think of a smart contract like a sort of vending machine: a script that, when called with certain parameters, performs some actions or computation if certain conditions are satisfied. For example, a simple vendor smart contract could create and assign ownership of a digital asset if the caller sends ETH to a specific recipient.