Michelson Interface

The Michelson Interface is implemented by a Michelson runtime that behaves as closely as possible to Tezos Layer 1, allowing Tezos developers to deploy and run their existing smart contracts on Etherlink with minimal changes.

The few differences with respect to Tezos Layer 1 are detailed at Compatibility with Tezos L1.

Key features

The Michelson Interface exposes a Tezos RPC endpoint, meaning any Tezos-compatible toolchain — wallets, indexers, SDKs, CLIs — can interact with it without modification.

It supports:

• User accounts (tz1, tz2, tz3 addresses)
• Smart contracts (KT1 addresses) written in Michelson or compiled from higher-level languages (SmartPy, LIGO, etc.)
• Standard Tezos operations: transfers, contract originations, delegation, etc.
• FA1.2 and FA2 token standards

Cross-interface calls to and from EVM contracts are available via the NAC gateway.