Contract Application Binary Interface. Have you heard about this? If you have been learning Solidity and have created an ERC-20 token or ERC-721 then this term has come up.
What are ABI's exactly?? 
Any contract that you create is associated with an ABI. When you compile a contract whether you use Truffle or Hardhat, you end up producing an artifact file, within that artifact file lives the ABI. ABI's are the standard way of interacting with a contract. This is for interacting within the ethereum ecosystem which, includes outside of the blockchain and contract-to-contract.
<img src="https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1631808908384/Pn8mbSITU.png" alt="abi_09_16_21.PNG" />
You can use Etherscan to find the ABI for a specific contract by entering the address of the contract. 
I thought it would be helpful to talk about ABI's since this will be a part of every contract. If you would like to learn more checkout Solidity docs for more details.

Contract Application Binary Interface. Have you heard about this? If you have been learning Solidity and have created an ERC-20 token or ERC-721 then this term has come up.

**What are ABI's exactly??** 

Any contract that you create is associated with an ABI. When you compile a contract whether you use Truffle or Hardhat, you end up producing an artifact file, within that artifact file lives the ABI. ABI's are the standard way of interacting with a contract. This is for interacting within the ethereum ecosystem which, includes outside of the blockchain and contract-to-contract.


![abi_09_16_21.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1631808908384/Pn8mbSITU.png)

You can use Etherscan to find the ABI for a specific contract by entering the address of the contract. 

I thought it would be helpful to talk about ABI's since this will be a part of every contract. If you would like to learn more checkout Solidity docs for more details.






Contract ABI's