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Blockchain By Example

You're reading from   Blockchain By Example A developer's guide to creating decentralized applications using Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hyperledger

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475686
Length 528 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Say Hello to Blockchain FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Bitcoin Payment System 3. Building Your Own Cryptocurrency 4. Peer-to-Peer Auctions in Ethereum 5. Tontine Game with Truffle and Drizzle 6. Blockchain-Based Futures System 7. Blockchains in Business 8. Creating an ICO 9. Distributed Storage IPFS and Swarm 10. Supply Chain on Hyperledger 11. Letter of Credit (LC) Hyperledger 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing our token sale contract

Our token sale contract will handle the mechanics of buying and selling our token in ether. To do this, our token sale contract will have to communicate with our ERC-20 contract in order to perform transfers from our token sale contract's balance to the balances of participants. For this communication, the token sale contract must know which functions are supported in our ERC-20 contract. This can be done in one of two ways:

  • Define an interface: We can use Solidity's interface keyword to define the parts of the ERC-20 contract that the token sale contract needs to use. We would make this declaration in the same file, above the token-sale contract body.
  • Import the ERC-20 contract: We can use an import statement to include the entire ERC-20 contract. For our implementation, this is the method we'll use.

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