--- title: How Smart Contracts are Saved on Ethereum | daily.dev description: This post explains how smart contracts are stored on the Ethereum blockchain, how they interact with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and the use of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-smart-contracts-are-saved-on-ethereum-xulllp0jn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Smart Contracts are Saved on Ethereum | daily.dev og:description: This post explains how smart contracts are stored on the Ethereum blockchain, how they interact with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and the use of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-smart-contracts-are-saved-on-ethereum-xulllp0jn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XUllLP0jn.png og:image:alt: How Smart Contracts are Saved on Ethereum og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Smart Contracts are Saved on Ethereum **[Coins Bench](https://daily.dev/sources/coinsbench)** · 9 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post explains how smart contracts are stored on the Ethereum blockchain, how they interact with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and the use of Patricia Merkle Trie as a data structure for contract information storage. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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