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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

The ERC20 token standard library

ERC20 is a token standard that's used in the Ethereum blockchain. It defines some standard functions and events that should be implemented by a contract if there is a need for a token.

The OpenZeppelin library includes contract files for the full implementation of the ERC20 token standard. Some other relevant ERC20 feature-related files are also present; using these files, you can decorate your ERC20 token contract and add more optional features to it. For example, with the Mintable and Pausable features, you can add token-minting and token-transfer-pause features to your ERC20 token contract.

All of the roles-related files are present in the Chapter09/openzeppelin-solidity/contracts/token/ERC20 folder of the OpenZeppelin library.

Let's start by learning about the ERC20 interface.

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