Ethereum is a blockchain and decentralized computing platform that allows the execution of smart contracts.
This book provides a basic overview of the Ethereum ecosystem, the concept behind Ethereum, and the mechanism of Ethereum, and demonstrates a step-by-step approach in building decentralized applications. It offers a quick guide, allows a reader who does not have in-depth or systematic knowledge on the topic to master the following skills.
This book begins with the very basics of Ethereum, blockchain, the Solidity language, and cryptocurrency. The book will simplify cryptography for you and then demonstrate how it can be used to secure ether, cryptographic data structures, advanced encryption standard (AES), hashes, private keys, and more. The book will then demonstrate how mining works and how miners make their profits. After this, the book will cover concepts such as proof of work, proof of stake, and smart contracts. The book will cover smart contracts in details, including concepts such as the Solidity programming language, token standards, and more. The book will cover how to build UIs for applications in Node.js and web3.js, explore Ethereum wallets, and look at building real-time scalable Ethereum applications. In addition, the book covers use cases highlighting the potential applications of Ethereum across sectors such as banking, financial services, healthcare, insurance, and real estate. By reviewing various Ethereum tools and frameworks with examples, readers will learn Truffle, Remix, MetaMask, IPFS, SWARM, Infura, Whisper, OpenZeppelin, and many other Ethereum technologies.
By the end of this book, you will learn about Ethereum decentralized application development, testing, deployment, developer tools, frameworks, more advanced blockchain concepts.