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Ethereum Cookbook

By : Manoj P R
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Ethereum Cookbook

By: Manoj P R

Overview of this book

Ethereum and Blockchain will change the way software is built for business transactions. Most industries have been looking to leverage these new technologies to gain efficiencies and create new business models and opportunities. The Ethereum Cookbook covers various solutions such as setting up Ethereum, writing smart contracts, and creating tokens, among others. You’ll learn about the security vulnerabilities, along with other protocols of Ethereum. Once you have understood the basics, you’ll move on to exploring various design decisions and tips to make your application scalable and secure. In addition to this, you’ll work with various Ethereum packages such as Truffle, Web3, and Ganache. By the end of this book, you’ll have comprehensively grasped the Ethereum principles and ecosystem.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Static and dynamic types in solidity

Statically typed programming languages do the type checking at compile time. Since solidity is a statically typed language, the type of each variable has to be specified at compile time. Solidity also provides an option to create complex user-defined types and type conversion.

In this recipe, you will learn about the basic elementary types of solidity, such as int, bool, array, byte, and address.

Getting ready

Remix is the best way to quickly write a test smart contract. Remix is a browser-based IDE that supports writing, compiling, testing, and deploying solidity smart contracts. Remix provides all these features in an easy-to-use interface and can be accessed quickly without any installation...