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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

Upgradable and scalable smart contracts

The Ethereum blockchain is immutable, which means that you can't modify its past actions. Once an action is confirmed by the majority of the miners, that action stays there forever. The same restrictions apply to smart contracts. However, we, as Ethereum experts, are able to overcome the issue of deploying unscalable code that ends up being vulnerable because we understand that there are different development techniques where we create scalable code. The idea is to deploy smart contracts so that they are ready to scale in the future with a set of different, interchangeable contracts. Knowing how to create smart contracts that scale and can be improved in the future is an essential skill that any top Ethereum expert must possess, so don't miss out on it.

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