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What is OpenZeppelin Contracts?
OpenZeppelin Contracts is the most widely audited open-source library of reusable Solidity components, including ERC-20, ERC-721, Ownable, AccessControl, and ReentrancyGuard.
Inheriting from OpenZeppelin instead of hand-writing token logic removes whole categories of bugs. The library is versioned and audited, and it is what most production contracts on Ethereum and Monad are built on.
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Definition by Adwait Keshari, founder of Monsmith.
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