diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
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+add_library(example-capi STATIC EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL capi.c)
+target_include_directories(example-capi PRIVATE ../include)
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diff --git a/examples/capi.c b/examples/capi.c
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+#include "evm.h"
+
+struct evm_uint256 balance(struct evm_env*, struct evm_hash160 address);
+
+union evm_variant query(struct evm_env* env,
+                        enum evm_query_key key,
+                        union evm_variant arg) {
+    union evm_variant result;
+    switch (key) {
+    case EVM_GAS_LIMIT: result.int64 = 314; break;
+
+    case EVM_BALANCE:
+        result.uint256 = balance(env, arg.address);
+        break;
+
+    default: result.int64 = 0; break;
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
+/// Example how the API is supposed to be used.
+void example() {
+    struct evm_instance* jit = evm_create(query, 0, 0, 0);
+
+    char const code[] = "exec()";
+    struct evm_bytes_view code_view = {code, sizeof(code)};
+    struct evm_hash256 code_hash = {{1, 2, 3}};
+    struct evm_bytes_view input = {"Hello World!", 12};
+    struct evm_uint256 value = {{1, 0, 0, 0}};
+
+    int64_t gas = 200000;
+    struct evm_result result =
+        evm_execute(jit, NULL, code_hash, code_view, gas, input, value);
+
+    evm_destroy_result(result);
+    evm_destroy(jit);
+}