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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)

Best practices in solidity

Solidity is very new and undergoes rapid changes every day. You should expect new best practices and bugs to be suggested/discovered every day, which improves the platform as a whole. There are some best practices and software engineering techniques in solidity that you can follow to write bug-free and optimized smart contracts for Ethereum. This recipe focuses on this topic.

How to do it...

  1. The first and most important technique is to keep the contract as simple as possible. Complex contracts increase the likelihood of bugs. The contract's logic should be simple and modularized.
  2. Use already available, well-tested, and popular libraries to achieve common tasks. This can help you in writing...