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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)

Smart Contract Security

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Integer overflow and underflow
  • Re-entrancy attack
  • The parity hack
  • Forcing Ether to a contract
  • Using private variables
  • Transaction Ordering Dependence
  • Call to the unknown
  • DoS using loops
  • Security analysis tools for solidity
  • Uninitialized storage pointer in solidity
  • Best practices in solidity