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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

Developing the e-commerce smart contract

Developing a smart contract that interacts with ERC-721 tokens is simple, because we only have to make sure that users have a token ID associated with their products. Users will be able to interact with their tokens independently if they wish to do so. For our marketplace, we'll focus on creating the buy and sell functions to create and burn tokens. As usual, we'll also create multiple getters to extract the data from the smart contract for the user interface.

Let's start to create the e-commerce contract, which will have all the market logic in the same file, since it doesn't take up that much space:

  1. Define the variables needed for the smart contract, starting with the structs that you'll need, as shown in the following code:
/// @notice The main ecommerce contract to buy and sell ERC-721 tokens representing...
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