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Concept Glossary
Concept Glossary
  • Concept Glossary
  • Address Types
    • Genesis or "Built-In" Contract
    • Externally Owned Account (EOA)
    • Multi-Sig
      • Gnosis Safe
    • Null Address
  • Bridge
  • Deployers
  • Gas & Gas Funding
  • Open Source
  • Smart Contracts
    • Are smart contracts immutable?
    • Proxy Contract
    • Implementation Contract
    • Upgradeable Proxy Contract
      • EIP-1967 Upgradeable Proxy Standard
      • Open Zeppelin
    • Renouncing Ownership
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  1. Address Types

Externally Owned Account (EOA)

An Externally Owned Account is an address where control of the address sits entirely with a private key stored off-chain. Think of the private key as a password -- and whoever has the password controls the account.

The canonical example of such an address is an Ethereum address that is not a smart contract, it is just an address secured by a private key held by some person.

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