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etherscan api not returning contract bytecode for some contracts

For some contracts, the Etherscan api returns empty bytecode (0x). For example for: 8AB399CBB9FDB9A36518A7E7EDDF89158E56C595 (even though the contract exists: https://etherscan.io/address/...
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What is the difference between bytecode, init code, deployed bytecode, creation bytecode, and runtime bytecode?

I constantly see different types of bytecode and do not know what each of them are. What are the differences between bytecode, init code, deployed bytecode, creation bytecode, and runtime bytecode?
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Does address.code return runtime or creation code

You have three options to retrieve bytecode: type(C).runtimeCode which returns the runtime code of a contract, type(C).creationCode which returns the creation code of a contract and address.code which ...
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Runtime bytecode not contained in creation bytecode

I'm currently delving into EVM and contract bytecode. My understanding is that by sending a transaction to the NULL address with both the initcode and contract code, and ensuring that the init code ...
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How to deploy a bytecode-only contract without an ABI

I see a contract's bytecode on chain that I want to re-deploy almost verbatim, but the issue is that there's no verification -- no ABI or source code. Can I still redeploy this contract to a hardhat ...
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type(C).creationCode who has access to this?

Who has access to this? For example, if I call type(SimpleStorage).creationCode, wouldn't this cause an issue because there are a lot of SimpleStorage's How does the type() function know the specific ...
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Should all method hashes be found in a smart contract's opcodes?

I have a compiled/deployed solidity smart contract for which I have encoded all the functions signatures. (4-byte hashes) With the deployed bytecode, I have parsed the pushdata into an array for all '...
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Difference between `bytecode` and `deployedBytecode` (especially for contracts with constructor args)

Suppose I have a contract like pragma solidity ^0.8.17; contract MyContract { constructor(string arg1, uint arg2) { ... } ... } When I compile the solidity contract (actually ...
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Why am I not able to access the storage of a contract deployed with bytecode?

I'm learning about EVM and I was trying to write a simple smart contract using bytecode only. What the contract is supposed to do is write the number 202 to storage slot 0 read from the storage and ...
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Bytecode: Does it Reveal What Language it Was Programmed In?

Does EVM bytecode have some indication to what high-level language it was programmed in?
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Figure out the address used at construction time for a regular smart contract

Is there anyway to figure out what was the address used at construction time and find it in the bytecode? For example I know that for libraries they are storing it in the contract in order to be able ...
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How is it the case that a contract's deployed code is longer than 24.576KB given EIP 170?

The deployed code associated with the contract address 0x05c848E3547Bc3Ccd977B84140FDC917Bfff96a1 is longer than EIP 170 permits (I think?). I know I'm misunderstanding something, but am struggling to ...
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Transaction data for contract creation: What's the data before the contract bytecode? [duplicate]

When a contract is deployed, the bytecode of the contract shows in the raw transaction data for the transaction that created the contract, along with constructor arguments after the contract bytecode ...
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Different byteCode generated between block explorer and standard json input

I have deployed a contract and want to verify it, but when I used the same code with same configurations of compiler to verify it, it gave me negative result. Thus I tried to decompile these two ...
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How to look up IPFS url in Ethereum Bytecode meta data

I have a solidity contract that is deployed on the Ethereum mainnet. The contract's bytecode ended with (what I assume to be) an IPFS url {ipfs}64736f6c634300060c0033 How do I look up this URL on ipfs?...
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What's the difference between solc's bin bytecode versus bin runtime?

Solc says that bin-runtime is the runtime part of the contracts. What exactly is the runtime bytecode part and how does it differ from bin bytecode output?