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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

Developing the e-commerce smart contract

Developing a smart contract that interacts with ERC-721 tokens is simple, because we only have to make sure that users have a token ID associated with their products. Users will be able to interact with their tokens independently if they wish to do so. For our marketplace, we'll focus on creating the buy and sell functions to create and burn tokens. As usual, we'll also create multiple getters to extract the data from the smart contract for the user interface.

Let's start to create the e-commerce contract, which will have all the market logic in the same file, since it doesn't take up that much space:

  1. Define the variables needed for the smart contract, starting with the structs that you'll need, as shown in the following code:
/// @notice The main ecommerce contract to buy and sell ERC-721 tokens representing...