# Zoe API
Zoe v0.24.0. Last updated
August 25, 2022.
The Zoe framework provides a way to write smart contracts without having to worry about offer safety. To use Zoe, we put things in terms of "offers". An offer proposal is a statement about what you want and what you're willing to offer. It turns out, many smart contracts (apart from gifts and one-way payments) involve an exchange of digital assets that can be put in terms of offer proposals.
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The Zoe API is divided into the following sections:
- Zoe Service - The methods for deploying and working with smart contracts.
- Zoe Contract Facet - These Zoe methods can be called synchronously by contract code. A contract can use the Zoe Contract Facet (zcf) to do things like reallocate among offers or complete an offer.
- ZoeHelpers for writing contracts - Functions that extract common contract code and patterns into reusable helpers.
- Price Authority -
Functions related to
priceAuthority
objects that provide a price feed, on-demand quotes, and wakeups for various time and price conditions. See the Zoe documentation's Price Authority section. - Ratio Math - Functions that perform math operations on Amounts by ratios of two natural numbers (i.e. fractions).
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