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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

Security analysis tools

There are some static and dynamic security analysis tools available online that you can also use to find the security-related issues in your contract. It is recommended that you should use these tools during the development and testing processes as well. These tools are as follows:

  • Securify: An open source, online, and fully automated static analyzer tool for Solidity smart contracts. It scans the contract code for vulnerability patterns and generates a report. You just need to upload your contract code into the online tool and get the report generated in a few minutes. You can use this tool at https://securify.chainsecurity.com/.
  • Slither: An open source Solidity static analyzer that detects many common Solidity issues. The open source code of the tool can be found at https://github.com/crytic/slither.
  • Mythril: An open source security analysis...