t__anchor</a>)
allows a smart contract to access the transient data an application passes
to a smart contract. See interaction points <strong>(9)</strong> and <strong>(10)</strong>.
Transient data is private to the application-smart contract interaction.
It is not recorded on the ledger and is often used in conjunction with
private data collections <strong>(3)</strong>.</p></li>
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<li><p><strong>Key APIs</strong> are used by smart contracts to manipulate state