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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

Introducing dApp architecture

Architecting a decentralized application means making high-level software decisions to direct the design of our ideas. We are laying out the steps so that we can fluently create a dApp without getting stuck in design decisions. It also implies planning how the smart contract will communicate with the dApp, how users will interact with the dApp, and what kind of features we want for the end product.

When designing an application, we want to focus heavily on the user experience so that they feel comfortable using the resulting dApp. That's why it's important to have a clear vision of how it will look before we start coding because if we want to have a modern dApp that feels responsive for tech users, we'll have to focus more on providing extensive information about each element of our application.

For instance, let's suppose that...