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 Smart contracts in Ethereum are written using Solidity.  Solidity is a contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing Smart Contracts, and targets the Ethereum Virtual Machine. One can use Remix online IDE to try writing and deploying Smart Contracts.
 
 ### Smart Contracts in Hyperledger
-Smart contracts in Hyperledger is called chaincode, and is written in Golang programming language.
+A Smart Contract in Hyperledger is called chaincode and is written in Golang programming language. 
+A chaincode is typically used by administrators to group related smart contracts for deployment, but can also be used for low level system programming of Fabric.
 
 ## Hello World Smart Contract
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