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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

Summary

In this chapter, we started by getting a high-level overview of Ethereum's history to understand where it came from and where it's headed. Then, we moved to specific topics, such as the EEA, since it's great to know how the Ethereum technology is being applied in different real-world scenarios. After that, we covered many different topics regarding the specifics of the Ethereum blockchain to understand it more on a technical level that makes sense as a developer, since we'll be dealing with all aspects related to its blockchain. Next, we moved to more technical topics regarding smart contracts, since they are at the core of what an Ethereum developer does, so that you get a clear vision of how they are implemented in the grand scheme of things. Finally, we moved to essential smart contract programming with Solidity and Vyper to kick-start your understanding...