ACADEMY
MODULE 10
LESSON 2
What Makes Qubic Smart Contracts Different
Qubic doesn’t use a virtual machine.
There’s no gas slider. No opcode limits. No separate execution layer.
Instead:
Smart contracts are written into ticks
Ticks are finalized by a quorum of 451 Computors
Execution is part of consensus — not something added after
This means:
Deterministic execution
Sub-second finality
No user-facing fees
No gas tokens required
They’re not hosted in a separate module — they’re embedded in the protocol itself.