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## INTRODUCTION Every blockchain application that handles value needs to answer the same question: how do you track who owns what? There are two dominant approaches, and choosing between them shapes your entire contract architecture. Contract-state accounting behaves like a bank ledger. A single smart contract holds a balance map, and transactions update entries in place. The UTXO model behaves li