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A smart contract is a self-executing digital term of agreement embedded in strings of codes to be executed when the specified conditions have been met. The advent of smart contracts in blockchain technology is genuine in all these features. Solana is a public blockchain that runs on a BFT—Byzantine Fault Tolerance—themed Tower Consensus. The Tower consensus leverages the Proof-of-History consensus mechanism. As one of the fastest blockchain networks, Solana can process about 710,000 TPS.