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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
12
Section 4: Production and Deployment
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Section 5: Conclusion

Summary

In this final chapter, we explored the different challenges Ethereum is facing and took a quick peek at the tools, technologies, and DApps in the broad Ethereum ecosystem. We paid special attention to one very promising DApp category, DeFi, where we see the incoming players becoming the ones to disrupt the traditional ones. It is always fascinating to see the convergence and integration between blockchain, AI/ML, IoT, and other emerging technologies. Finally, we also provided our view of the future of Ethereum.

With that, we hope this book has helped you understand the ins and outs of blockchain and Ethereum, and equipped you with all you needed to get started with DApp development. We hope we have provided you with some insight into the future of the broad blockchain and cryptocurrency space.