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The Essential Guide to Web3

By : Vijay Krishnan
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Book Image

The Essential Guide to Web3

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By: Vijay Krishnan

Overview of this book

Web3, the new blockchain-based web, is often hailed as the future of the internet. Driven by technologies such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized finance, and more, Web3’s aim is to give individuals more control over the web communities they belong to. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, this book will help you master the intricacies of Web3 and its revolutionary technologies. Beginning with a concise introduction to blockchain and the Ethereum ecosystem, this book quickly immerses you in real-world blockchain applications. You’ll work on carefully crafted hands-on exercises that are designed for beginners as well as users with prior exposure. The chapters show you how to build and deploy smart contracts, while mastering security controls and discovering best practices for writing secure code. As you progress, you’ll explore tokenization and gain proficiency in minting both fungible and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with the help of step-by-step instructions. The concluding chapters cover advanced topics, including oracles, Layer 2 (L2) networks, rollups, zero knowledge proofs, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). By the end of this Web3 book, you’ll be well-versed in the Web3 ecosystem and have the skills to build powerful and secure decentralized applications.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1 – Introduction to Web3
5
Part 2 – All about Smart Contracts
9
Part 3 – Writing Your DApps for Web3
12
Part 4 – Fungible Tokens
15
Part 5 – Non-Fungible Tokens
18
Part 6 – Web3 Advanced Topics

Summary

This wraps up a long chapter with a lot of Solidity-related topics. We covered various topics related to Solidity programming language and smart contract development. We discussed Solidity data types, including boolean, integer, address, and byte arrays, and their usage in smart contract development. We also covered Solidity contract types, including fixed-size and dynamic-size byte arrays, string literals and types, and enumerated types, explaining their definitions and how they are used. We also discussed Solidity storage and memory, including how they differ and how they are used in smart contract development.

Furthermore, we discussed Solidity smart contract events and logs, as well as their importance in debugging and monitoring smart contracts. We also explained how smart contract ABIs are used to interact with smart contracts.

Finally we discussed the importance to use factory contracts like simple factory and proxy factory contracts.

Overall, this chapter provided...