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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)

Creating a basic game on Ethereum

Another wonderful use case for a decentralized platform like Ethereum is building games. CryptoKitties is one such popular game, which is built on Ethereum blockchain. There are many options to consider while creating a decentralized game. You can either go with a fully decentralized and transparent game, or partially decentralized, feature-rich game. It depends on your requirements and target players.

In this recipe, you will learn how to create a simple game that allows the player to own heroes and battle against others.

Getting ready

You need to have a working installation of Ethereum (geth, Parity, ganache, and so on) or the Remix IDE to test this recipe.

The contracts given are for illustration...