--- title: What Really Happens When You Call a Smart Contract? description: A beginner-friendly walkthrough of what happens when a smart contract function is called on the EVM. Covers how Solidity compiles to bytecode, how function... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-really-happens-when-you-call-a-smart-contract--7nm5vpi17 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Really Happens When You Call a Smart Contract? | daily.dev og:description: A beginner-friendly walkthrough of what happens when a smart contract function is called on the EVM. Covers how Solidity compiles to bytecode, how function... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-really-happens-when-you-call-a-smart-contract--7nm5vpi17 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7Nm5vpI17.png og:image:alt: What Really Happens When You Call a Smart Contract? 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. # What Really Happens When You Call a Smart Contract? **[Coins Bench](https://daily.dev/sources/coinsbench)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A beginner-friendly walkthrough of what happens when a smart contract function is called on the EVM. Covers how Solidity compiles to bytecode, how function selectors identify which function to execute, and why contract execution starts at the beginning of runtime bytecode rather than jumping directly to the called function. Sets up a series on EVM internals including selector collisions, delegatecall, and proxy patterns. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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