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Ethereum Cookbook

You're reading from  Ethereum Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133998
Pages 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Manoj P R Manoj P R
Profile icon Manoj P R
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Smart Contract Development 3. Interacting with the Contract 4. The Truffle Suite 5. Tokens and ICOs 6. Games and DAOs 7. Advanced Solidity 8. Smart Contract Security 9. Design Decisions 10. Other Protocols and Applications 11. Miscellaneous 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Accepting crypto payments for the crowdsale

Tokens from an ICO are generally purchased by sending Ether to the contract. The examples given in the current chapter use a fallback function to accept direct Ether payments. This allows anyone to send Ether to the contract address through a transaction to purchase tokens.

If the user does not have Ether, they can either purchase it from an exchange or convert other cryptocurrencies to Ether using services such as Shapeshift. Also, you can make use of BTCRelay to accept Bitcoin transactions from Ethereum.

In this recipe, you will learn various options for accepting cryptocurrency payments in your ICO.

Getting ready

You need to have a crowdsale contract set up in Ethereum...

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