You're reading from The Essential Guide to Web3 Develop, deploy, and manage distributed applications on the Ethereum network

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813471

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ethereum

Concepts

Blockchain

Author (1):

Vijay Krishnan

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Introduction to Web3 FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Blockchain and Web3

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started With Ethereum

4. Chapter 3: Your First Ethereum Transaction

5. Part 2 – All about Smart Contracts

6. Chapter 4: Introduction to Smart Contracts

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Deploying Your First Smart Contract

8. Chapter 6: Smart Contract Security and Access Controls

9. Part 3 – Writing Your DApps for Web3

10. Chapter 7: Developer Tools and Libraries for Web3 Development

11. Chapter 8: Writing and Testing Your First dApp on Web3

12. Part 4 – Fungible Tokens

13. Chapter 9: Introduction to Tokenization

14. Chapter 10: Creating Your First Token

15. Part 5 – Non-Fungible Tokens

16. Chapter 11: Non-Fungible Token Standards

17. Chapter 12: Creating Your First Non-Fungible Token

18. Part 6 – Web3 Advanced Topics

19. Chapter 13: Understanding Oracles

20. Chapter 14: Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Zero-Knowledge EVMs

21. Chapter 15: L2 Networks and Rollups

22. Chapter 16: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Overview

23. Index

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Summary

In summary, Ethereum is currently the second-largest blockchain network by market capitalization. It has been growing rapidly in recent years, with an increasing number of dApps and DeFi platforms being built on top of it. Ethereum moved to a PoS consensus algorithm called Ethereum 2.0. The network has also seen significant growth in the DeFi space and the NFT market.

In this chapter, we delved deeply into the EVM to unravel the inner workings of smart contract execution on the Ethereum network. As you embarked on this journey, you gained a profound understanding of the EVM’s architecture and its pivotal role in powering the decentralized world of Ethereum.

We uncovered the complexities of the EVM’s components, starting with the execution environment. Here, we discovered how the EVM provides a secure sanctuary for smart contracts, housing crucial elements such as code, data storage, and the execution state. With this foundation, we also saw the EVM’...