Recently, we at NEAR spend significant time and brainpower to sum up our vision on using virtual machines at the blockchains, especially on the possible design and architectural problems and decisions. Format of FAQ seemed to be the most suitable for that particular communications, so please welcome "The Contract Runtime VM FAQ". It is not a typical architecture white paper, as we intentionally avoid being too pushy in design decisions, and mostly describe particular problem/dichotomy as a question and describe approaches and opinions we consider constructive in solving it. And of course, NEAR's own virtual machine for blockchain follows the guidelines and opinions we express here.
