Describing Smart Contract Functionality

A simple graphic illustrating the concept of a blockchain transaction

🧭 Lesson Overview: Describing Smart Contract Functionality

In Web3 development, it’s essential to describe what smart contracts do with precision and objectivity. This lesson is your guide to mastering the language needed for technical documentation, project updates, and professional audits.

You’ll learn how to use the passive voice to describe smart contract actions in a neutral, professional tone, focusing on the action rather than the actor. We’ll also cover relative clauses as a tool to provide precise definitions and details about blockchain components.

By the end of this lesson, you'll be more fluent in technical English, with a strong command of the sentence structures commonly used in smart contract audits, documentation, and feature descriptions.

📚 Learning Steps: Your Path to Technical Fluency

  1. ✅ Master the Vocabulary: Familiarize yourself with all essential blockchain terms so you can talk confidently about them.

  2. 📖 Go Hands-on: Complete the reading assignment to reinforce your understanding English grammar and expressions for talking about blockchain technology and it's core concepts.

  3. 📝 Test Your Knowledge: Take the comprehension quiz to solidify your learning and ensure you're ready for the next lesson.

🧠 Essential Blockchain Vocabulary

Before diving deeper into describing smart contract functionality, build your Web3 vocabulary with our essential terms. These definitions and real-world analogies are designed to help you create a mental model of how blockchain concepts work. By mastering this technical terminology, you’ll be better equipped to understand the technologies discussed in this lesson.

Each term has been selected to support your understanding of describing smart contract functionality at both a conceptual and practical level.

Cryptographic Proofs

Function

Gas

Immutable

Mapping

Multisig

Nodes

Oracle Network

State

📘 Challenge Yourself

Ready to go hands-on? Complete the reading assignment to reinforce this lesson's concepts. Then, take the short quiz to test your technical fluency.

📝 Quiz: Test Your Blockchain Knowledge

Ready to put your skills to the test? Take this short quiz to test your understanding of the lesson's core concepts. Solidify your knowledge before moving on to the next topic in your learning path.

1. The contract __________ after the audit was completed.

© fluentDev 2025