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Mastering Ethereum

You're reading from   Mastering Ethereum Implement advanced blockchain applications using Ethereum-supported tools, services, and protocols

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789531374
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Merunas Grincalaitis Merunas Grincalaitis
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Blockchain - Ethereum Refresher FREE CHAPTER
2. Blockchain Architecture 3. Ethereum Ecosystems 4. Ethereum Assets 5. Section 2: Decentralized Application Development Workflow
6. Mastering Smart Contracts 7. Mastering dApps 8. Tools, Frameworks, Components, and Services 9. Deployment on Testnet 10. Various dApps Integrations 11. Decentralized Exchanges Workflow 12. Section 3: Ethereum Implementations
13. Machine Learning on the Ethereum Blockchain 14. Creating a Blockchain-based Social Media Platform 15. Creating a Blockchain-Based E-Commerce Marketplace 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building the smart contract

The smart contract that we are going to build will serve as the backend for our decentralized application by storing all the messages, hashtags, and users. In our application, we want to keep users anonymous; that's why they are represented as addresses instead of usernames – to direct people's attention to what's being talked about, not to who is delivering the message.

As you already know, we'll create a hashtag-focused social media platform without images or video. That's why all of our data will be stored in a combination of mappings and arrays.

Planning the design process

Before getting straight to the code, I want you to understand the process that we'll...

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