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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've learned a great deal of things related the mechanisms that integrate blockchain technology with real-world scenarios, such as exchanges and adoption rates. You are now capable of using powerful tools to improve the quality of your decentralized applications and smart contracts, while also being able to predict future price movements based on the most important metrics about Ethereum. In the first section, you saw how the Ethereum blockchain is defined using a specific set of rules known as the chain spec, then you learned about the different parts that make such impressive technology possible, including the many applications built on each layer. Finally, you saw how Ethereum consensus, economics, and metrics work to help you understand why Ethereum is such a valuable coin, while also seeing the way many nodes cooperate toward a singular objective...