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Mastering Blockchain.. - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213199
Pages 816 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
Profile icon Imran Bashir
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters close

Preface 1. Blockchain 101 2. Decentralization 3. Symmetric Cryptography 4. Public Key Cryptography 5. Consensus Algorithms 6. Introducing Bitcoin 7. The Bitcoin Network and Payments 8. Bitcoin Clients and APIs 9. Alternative Coins 10. Smart Contracts 11. Ethereum 101 12. Further Ethereum 13. Ethereum Development Environment 14. Development Tools and Frameworks 15. Introducing Web3 16. Serenity 17. Hyperledger 18. Tokenization 19. Blockchain – Outside of Currencies 20. Enterprise Blockchain 21. Scalability and Other Challenges 22. Current Landscape and What's Next 23. Index

Building an ERC-20 token

In this section, we will build an ERC-20 token. In previous chapters, we saw several ways of developing smart contracts, including writing smart contracts in Visual Studio Code and compiling them and then deploying them on a blockchain network. We also used the Remix IDE, Truffle, and MetaMask to experiment with various way of developing and deploying smart contracts. In this section, we will use a quick method to develop, test, and deploy our smart contract on a Goerli test network. We will not use Truffle or Visual Studio Code in this example as we have seen this method before; we are going to explore a quicker method to build and deploy our contract.

In this example, we will see how quickly and easily we can build and deploy our own token on the Ethereum blockchain network.

Pre requisites

We will use the following components in our example:

  • Remix IDE, available at http://remix.ethereum.org. Note that in the following example...
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