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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

Upgradable and scalable smart contracts

The Ethereum blockchain is immutable, which means that you can't modify its past actions. Once an action is confirmed by the majority of the miners, that action stays there forever. The same restrictions apply to smart contracts. However, we, as Ethereum experts, are able to overcome the issue of deploying unscalable code that ends up being vulnerable because we understand that there are different development techniques where we create scalable code. The idea is to deploy smart contracts so that they are ready to scale in the future with a set of different, interchangeable contracts. Knowing how to create smart contracts that scale and can be improved in the future is an essential skill that any top Ethereum expert must possess, so don't miss out on it.

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