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Learn Ethereum

By : Xun (Brian) Wu, Zhihong Zou, Dongying Song
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Learn Ethereum

By: Xun (Brian) Wu, Zhihong Zou, Dongying Song

Overview of this book

Ethereum is a blockchain-based, decentralized computing platform that allows running smart contracts. This book provides a basic overview of how Ethereum works, its ecosystem, mining process, and the consensus mechanism. It also demonstrates a step-by-step approach for building decentralized applications. This book begins with the very basics of Blockchain technology. Then it dives deep into the Ethereum architecture, framework and tools in its ecosystem. It also provides you an overview of ongoing research on Ethereum, for example, Layer 1 and 2 scaling solution, Stablecoin, ICO/STO/IEO, etc. Next, it explains Solidity language in detail, and provides step-by-step instructions for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and monitoring decentralized applications. In addition, you’ll learn how to use Truffle, Remix, Infura, Metamask, and many other Ethereum technologies. It’ll also help you develop your own cryptocurrency by creating ERC20, and ERC721 smart contracts from scratch. Finally, we explain private blockchains, and you learn how to interact with smart contracts through wallets.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: Blockchain and Ethereum Basics
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Section 2: Blockchain Development Cycle
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Section 3: Ethereum Implementations
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Section 4: Production and Deployment
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Section 5: Conclusion

Summary

In this chapter, we started working with different approaches to deploying smart contracts to testnets via Ethereum wallets. We went through deploying smart contracts with the Goerli testnet and Ropsten testnet. Then, we took a close look at how to monitor smart contracts on Etherscan. Finally, we looked at and used some of the useful tools that are provided by Etherscan.

In the next chapter, we will get a better understanding of Ethereum wallet technology, create a hierarchical deterministic wallet, and compare wallets.