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 \caption{In the diagram above, we see a State object representing a cash claim of \pounds100 against a commercial bank, owned by a fictional shipping company.  The state object explicitly refers by hash to its governing legal prose and to the contract code that governs its transitions.}
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-Our focus on states of agreements is in contrast to systems where the data over which participants much reach consensus is the state of an entire ledger or the state of an entire virtual machine. Corda provides three main tools to achieve global distributed consensus:
+Our focus on states of agreements is in contrast to systems where the data over which participants must reach consensus is the state of an entire ledger or the state of an entire virtual machine. Corda provides three main tools to achieve global distributed consensus:
 \begin{itemize}
     \item Smart contract logic to ensure state transitions are valid according to the pre-agreed rules.
     \item Uniqueness and timestamping services to order transactions temporally and eliminate conflicts.