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Mastering Ethereum

By : Merunas Grincalaitis
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Mastering Ethereum

By: Merunas Grincalaitis

Overview of this book

Ethereum is one of the commonly used platforms for building blockchain applications. It's a decentralized platform for applications that can run exactly as programmed without being affected by fraud, censorship, or third-party interference. This book will give you a deep understanding of how blockchain works so that you can discover the entire ecosystem, core components, and its implementations. You will get started by understanding how to configure and work with various Ethereum protocols for developing dApps. Next, you will learn to code and create powerful smart contracts that scale with Solidity and Vyper. You will then explore the building blocks of the dApps architecture, and gain insights on how to create your own dApp through a variety of real-world examples. The book will even guide you on how to deploy your dApps on multiple Ethereum instances with the required best practices and techniques. The next few chapters will delve into advanced topics such as, building advanced smart contracts and multi-page frontends using Ethereum blockchain. You will also focus on implementing machine learning techniques to build decentralized autonomous applications, in addition to covering several use cases across a variety of domains such as, social media and e-commerce. By the end of this book, you will have the expertise you need to build decentralized autonomous applications confidently.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Blockchain - Ethereum Refresher
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Section 2: Decentralized Application Development Workflow
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Section 3: Ethereum Implementations

Creating a Blockchain-Based E-Commerce Marketplace

A decentralized e-commerce marketplace is one of the best cases of blockchain technology for the simple reason that you don't have to pay fees or entrust your data into the hands of powerful corporations that will sell it for profit. Ethereum is an excellent solution for this, is the new ERC-721 token standard has been approved for you to generate digitalized objects on the blockchain. In this chapter, you'll learn how to deal with personal user data so that it's protected for each individual, given that Ethereum is a public system.

In the first section, we'll look at how an e-commerce website should be structured so that users can interact with it as if it were a real store. You'll build the user interface that will display the unique products identified with the ERC-721 convention. Then, you'll...