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Merging the Blockchain and Transaction Codes

Both the program state and the transactions that are run against this program state are stored as serializations of CX programs. In order to run a transaction against the program state, a merging of both serializations needs to be performed. This merging – although not so trivial – results in a structure similar to the one depicted in the diagram below:

As can be seen, each of the memory segments of the serialization of the transaction code is appended at the end of each of the memory segments of the serialization of the blockchain code. The merging of both serializations results in a serialization representing a CX program that both includes the blockchain and the transaction code.

After running the merged program, the program needs to be separated into two parts again: the program state and the serialized transaction code, where the new program state is stored as part of an unspent output, and the serialized transaction code is stored as part of the transaction.

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