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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
1
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 standard API

ERC20 is the token standard API that defines functions so that they can access the status of the token, the token's details, and account balances. You can find the original EIP of the ERC20 standard on the GitHub repository of the Ethereum project: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-20.md.

The following is the standard API interface defined in Solidity:

interface ERC20FullInterface {
//Below are the OPTIONAL functions of API
function name() external view returns (string);


function symbol() external view returns (string);

function decimals() external view returns (uint8);

//Below are the functions an implementation MUST have
function transfer(address to, uint256 value)

external returns (bool);

function approve(address spender, uint256 value)
external returns (bool);

function transferFrom(address from...