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📄️ Soroban on Stellar FAQs

Soroban's Stellar integration is under active-development and may change.

📄️ Authorization

This is an overview of the Soroban authorization framework.

📄️ Built-In Types

Built-in types are available to all contracts for use as contract function

📄️ Custom Types

Custom types are struct, union, and enum types defined by contracts. They are

Contract development occurs in the Rust programming language, but several features of the Rust language are either unavailable in the deployment guest environment, or not recommended because their use would incur unacceptable costs at runtime.

📄️ Debugging

Soroban contracts are as much as possible regular Rust programs and can be debugged using the same tools you'd usually use.

📄️ Environment Concepts

The contract environment is an interface that defines the facilities -- objects, functions, data sources, etc. -- available to contracts.

📄️ Errors

There are a number of ways to generate errors in contracts.

📄️ Events

Events are the mechanism that applications off-chain can use to monitor changes and events in contracts on-chain.

📄️ Gas and Metering

Gas and metering are the mechanisms that will measure the cost of running a contract and bill that cost to the account executing the contract.

📄️ Interacting with Contracts

Three types of interactions

📄️ Persisting Data

Ledger entries

📄️ High-Level Overview