Term

Yul

A low-level intermediate language for the Ethereum toolchain targeting the EVM and eWASM.

Type:

ethereum

language

definition

Yul enables writing optimized smart contract code closer to the machine level, with Solidity and Vyper compilers able to output Yul for advanced optimization.

Example 1.1

"Developers used Yul to hand-optimize a hot path, reducing gas costs versus equivalent Solidity."

Related Terms

Virtual Machine

→

An execution environment that runs smart contract code deterministically across nodes (e.g., EVM).

computing

blockchain

Smart Contract

→

Programmatic rules executed by the blockchain to enforce agreements without intermediaries.

blockchain

scripting

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