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Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616512

Length 814 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Solidity

Tools

Ethereum

Concepts

Blockchain

Authors (3):

Dongying Song

Zhihong Zou

Xun (Brian) Wu

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Blockchain and Ethereum Basics

2. Chapter 1: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Ethereum Architecture and Ecosystem

4. Chapter 3: Decentralized Finance

5. Chapter 4: EVM-Compatible Blockchain Networks

6. Chapter 5: Deep Research and the Latest Developments in Ethereum

7. Part 2:Ethereum Development Fundamentals

8. Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Solidity

9. Chapter 7: Web3 API Fundamentals

10. Chapter 8: Developing Your Own Cryptocurrency

11. Part 3: Ethereum Development Fundamentals

12. Chapter 9: Smart Contract Development and Test Fundamentals

13. Chapter 10: Writing a Frontend to Build the NFT Marketplace DApp

14. Chapter 11: Ethereum Tools and Frameworks

15. Part 4:Production and Deployment

16. Chapter 12: Setting Up Ethereum Private Chain

17. Chapter 13: Deployment of Your DApps

18. Chapter 14: Building Ethereum Wallets

19. Chapter 15: Oracles, Technology, and Layer 2 in Practice

20. Part 5:Conclusion

21. Chapter 16: Conclusion

22. Index

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Setting up an Ethereum environment

To start with Web3 development, you will need to install the Ethereum development environment. Throughout this book, we will discuss various popular development environments. In this section, we will install the Geth Ethereum private node.

Geth (short for Go-Ethereum) is the most popular Ethereum client, implemented in the Go programming language. Geth is maintained by core Ethereum Foundation developers and other contributors and provides Ethereum developers and users with a fast, reliable, and secure platform for running DApps and node operations on the network. In addition, Geth provides a command-line interface (CLI) that allows the client to interact with the Ethereum network and an HTTP and WebSocket-based JSON-RPC API. In the following subsections, we will learn about the Web3 API through a local Geth node and the Goerli testnet.

In the upcoming section, we will be focusing on the installation of Geth, the Go implementation of the Ethereum...

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