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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

Chapter 1

  1. In the first chapter, we discussed many different properties of blockchain. Of those properties, immutability and replacing trust are the most unique. If your application needs these properties, then blockchain should be used; otherwise, it is not recommended that you use blockchain as part of your application.
  2. Blockchain is also called distributed database and distributed ledger technology. As it is a distributed database, it offers many benefits, which we discussed in the chapter on the properties of blockchain; however, centralized databases and other kinds of database have their own benefits. For example, centralized databases are fast in transaction processing, they can handle large amounts of data, and keeping each storage cell persistent does not require any kind of fee. Hence, blockchain technology is not going to replace traditional databases.
  3. Blockchain technology...