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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

By : Jitendra Chittoda
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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

By: Jitendra Chittoda

Overview of this book

Solidity is among the most popular and contract-oriented programming languages used for writing decentralized applications (DApps) on Ethereum blockchain. If you’re looking to perfect your skills in writing professional-grade smart contracts using Solidity, this book can help. You will get started with a detailed introduction to blockchain, smart contracts, and Ethereum, while also gaining useful insights into the Solidity programming language. A dedicated section will then take you through the different Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC) standards, including ERC-20, ERC-223, and ERC-721, and demonstrate how you can choose among these standards while writing smart contracts. As you approach later chapters, you will cover the different smart contracts available for use in libraries such as OpenZeppelin. You’ll also learn to use different open source tools to test, review and improve the quality of your code and make it production-ready. Toward the end of this book, you’ll get to grips with techniques such as adding security to smart contracts, and gain insights into various security considerations. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to write secure, production-ready smart contracts in Solidity from scratch for decentralized applications on Ethereum blockchain.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Getting Started with Blockchain, Ethereum, and Solidity
5
Section 2: Deep Dive into Development Tools
9
Section 3: Mastering ERC Standards and Libraries
16
Section 4: Design Patterns and Best Practices

ERC20 Token Standard

Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC) has a standard process to initiate improvement proposals and make them standard. ERC20 is a token standard that's used to create the fungible tokens on Ethereum blockchain—just like bitcoin (symbol: BTC) and ether (symbol: ETH) are coins and have economic values. Similarly, by using the ERC20 standard, you can mint as many tokens of a specific type, which also have economic values. This standard allows anyone to easily create their own token on a blockchain.

In this chapter, we are going to look into the ERC20 token standard of the Ethereum blockchain. There are many standards present in Ethereum; however, the most used and popular one is the ERC20 standard. We will understand the API methods of the standard, and we will look into the implementation of these API methods. We will understand when to use ERC20...