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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)

Transferring tokens between accounts

Tokens can be transferred between multiple accounts. This allows you to trade tokens in exchange for services. To achieve this functionality, ERC20 provides a standard function definition. You will learn to implement basic transfer function with this recipe.

Getting ready

You need to have a development environment that supports solidity programming and an Ethereum network to deploy and test your code.

How to do it...

  1. ERC20 defines a transfer function to transfer tokens between accounts. Create the function to implement the feature...