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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)

Compiling your contract with the solc compiler

Solidity is a high-level language and has to be compiled before being deployed to Ethereum. In this recipe, you will learn how to use the solc command-line compiler to compile your smart contract to its binary and ABI.

Getting ready

You need to have a working installation of the solc compiler to step through this recipe. You can also make use of the JavaScript-based solcjs to compile solidity. These commands may not work in solcjs and you have to follow its documentation.

How to do it...

  1. Consider the following smart contract...