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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)

Writing your first smart contract

Solidity is the language of choice for writing smart contracts in Ethereum. A solidity smart contract is a collection of code (functions) and data (state) that resides at a specific address in the Ethereum blockchain.

Solidity is a statically typed, high-level language which is influenced by JavaScript, Python, and C++. Solidity supports inheritance, libraries, and user-defined types, and is designed for EVM.

Getting ready

It is recommended to use Remix (https://remix.ethereum.org) for writing smart contracts in solidity. Remix is a browser-based IDE that supports writing, compiling, testing, and deploying solidity smart contracts. Remix provides all of these features in an easy-to-use interface...