Solidity Data Types

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Solidity data types serve as the fundamental building blocks for defining the storage and memory layout within smart contracts, ensuring precise interaction with financial primitives. Value types represent data passed by copy, providing necessary predictability for arithmetic operations, such as calculating interest rates or margin requirements in decentralized exchanges. Reference types, including arrays and mappings, manage complex datasets that facilitate the accounting of collateral positions and the tracking of liquidity pool balances. These structures ensure that numerical operations remain deterministic, which is essential for auditability in high-frequency trading environments.