Explain it to me like I’m 5: in one sentence what is polkadot?

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  • ink

    Parity's ink! to write smart contracts. (by use-ink)

    • There is a contracts pallet in the substrate framework that allows parachains to run smart contracts uploaded to the blockchain, it’s built in rust and compiles to wasm. Though it’s not a priority for polkadot as a framework, parachains can already write, run and deploy smart contracts and run them against their blockchain. It’s quite over looked as it’s not promoted much but it’s their https://github.com/paritytech/ink.

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