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 Building Full Stack DeFi Applications

You're reading from   Building Full Stack DeFi Applications A practical guide to creating your own decentralized finance projects on blockchain

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634118
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samuel Zhou Samuel Zhou
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Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to DeFi Application Development FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to DeFi 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with DeFi Application Development 4. Chapter 3: Interacting with Smart Contracts and DeFi Wallets in the Frontend 5. Part 2: Design and Implementation of a DeFi Application for Trading Cryptos
6. Chapter 4: Introduction to Decentralized Exchanges 7. Chapter 5: Building Crypto-Trading Smart Contracts 8. Chapter 6: Implementing a Liquidity Management Frontend with Web3 9. Chapter 7: Implementing a Token-Swapping Frontend with Web3 10. Chapter 8: Working with Native Tokens 11. Part 3: Building a DeFi Application for Staking and Yield Farming
12. Chapter 9: Building Smart Contracts for Staking and Farming 13. Chapter 10: Implementing a Frontend for Staking and Farming 14. Part 4: Building a Crypto Loan App for Lending and Borrowing
15. Chapter 11: An Introduction to Crypto Loans 16. Chapter 12: Implementing an Asset Pool Smart Contract for a Crypto Loan 17. Chapter 13: Implementing a Price Oracle for Crypto Loans 18. Chapter 14: Implementing the Crypto Loan Frontend with Web3 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deploying a smart contract on Testnet

During the process of developing Web3 products, before we deploy the smart contracts in Mainnet, which carries out genuine transactions with real financial value, we need an environment to simulate the Mainnet with a full set of tools and real-world transaction volumes. However, these tools and real-world traffic cannot be provided by a local EVM. Luckily, the most popular blockchains, including Ethereum, have their Testnet available for developers, so they can try out their smart contract in a simulation environment.

Because the cryptocurrencies in Testnet don’t have real-world value, it is free for developers to test out their smart contracts without worrying about financial loss. Developers can switch to Mainnet from Testnet just by changing to another RPC endpoint. Once you have learned how to use Hardhat to deploy smart contracts on Testnet, you can do the same thing to deploy the smart contracts on Mainnet.

Ethereum has multiple...

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