Book Image

Advanced Blockchain Development

By : Imran Bashir, Narayan Prusty
Book Image

Advanced Blockchain Development

By: Imran Bashir, Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger with applications in industries such as finance, government, and media. This Learning Path is your guide to building blockchain networks using Ethereum, JavaScript, and Solidity. You will get started by understanding the technical foundations of blockchain technology, including distributed systems, cryptography and how this digital ledger keeps data secure. Further into the chapters, you’ll gain insights into developing applications using Ethereum and Hyperledger. As you build on your knowledge of Ether security, mining, smart contracts, and Solidity, you’ll learn how to create robust and secure applications that run exactly as programmed without being affected by fraud, censorship, or third-party interference. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll explore how blockchain solutions can be implemented in applications such as IoT apps, in addition to its use in currencies. This Learning Path also highlights how you can increase blockchain scalability, and discusses the future scope of this fascinating and powerful technology. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be equipped with the skills you need to tackle pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle and confidently design and deploy decentralized applications.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
15
Blockchain - Outside of Currencies
16
Scalability and Other Challenges
Index

Building a client for the betting contract


To make it easy to find match's IDs, deploy, and invest in contracts, we need to build a UI client. So let's get started with building a client, which will have two paths, that is, the home path to deploy contracts and bet on matches and the other path to find the list of matches. We will let users deploy and bet using their own offline accounts so that the entire process of betting happens in a decentralized manner and nobody can cheat.

Before we start building our client, make sure that you have testnet synced because Oraclize works only on Ethereum's testnet/mainnet and not on private networks. You can switch to testnet and start downloading the testnet blockchain by replacing the --dev option with the --testnet option. For example, take a look at the following:

geth --testnet --rpc --rpccorsdomain "*" --rpcaddr "0.0.0.0" --rpcport "8545"

Projecting the structure

In the exercise files of this chapter, you will find two directories, that is, Final...