# Tech Design Philosophy Through the development process of creating Fracton Protocol, the dev team is centered around the following design philosophies: * **Secure** * **Stateless** * **Smart** ## Secure Besides rounds of internal/external audits on the Fracton protocol’s smart contracts, each line of code Fracton protocol deployed on the blockchain is non-upgradeable. It ensures that the smart contract is fixed and cannot be altered, even by the contract's creator itself. This can give users of the contract greater confidence as non-upgradeable smart contracts are simpler and more secure, with no need to include code to handle updates or modifications. ## Stateless System Design Fracton Protocol fully utilizes the contract state variables within a framework to implement business logic and process control while optimizing gas consumption by avoiding the addition of new state variables. There are a few reasons why it is important: * Users pay fewer gas fees * Help Ethereum to better scale and decentralize * Create better composability for the Dapps that build on top of the Fracton protocol ## Smart Token Development A “think” protocol design is followed as most of the business functions are embedded under the token contract in order to achieve high efficiency between contract calls.