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Learn Ethereum: Build your own decentralized applications with Ethereum and smart contracts

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Learn Ethereum

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

It is a common belief that the bankruptcy filed by Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street banking giant, on September 15, 2008, triggered the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Excessive risk exposure in subprime mortgage and financial derivatives by large banks almost brought down global financial systems. The crisis was the ultimate consequence of a fundamental breakdown of trust in the relationship between customers and the financial institutions that should have been serving them.

Shortly after that, Satoshi Nakamoto, a mysterious and anonymous entity, published a whitepaper on October 31, 2008, called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, which is considered the origin of Bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies. Satoshi proposed a completely decentralized approach for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) payment without central banks or intermediaries. He outlined...

Technical Requirements

Introducing blockchain technology

You might have heard the parable of the blind men and an elephant. It is a folk tale about each of six blind men's individual descriptions of the same elephant based on their own touch and feel of the animal. It highlights the fact that different perspectives may lead to distinct viewpoints, emphasizing the limits of perception and the importance of a complete context.

When Satoshi invented Bitcoin, the fundamental concept in its vision was to build a blockchain, a shared public ledger (longest proof-of-work (PoW) chain), that verifies and records immutably all transactions through a decentralized computer network (P2P network) and a consensus mechanism with computational proof. Satoshi came up with an elegant solution solving the double-spend problem of electronic monies. A double-spend is an attack when someone tries to spend money through...

Rehashing cryptography

Cryptography is the study of secure communication techniques that prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages and allow only the intended recipient of a message to view its contents. It is the cornerstone of information security, which serves as the basis for delivering secure business applications and services. Modern cryptography concerns itself with the following five objectives of information security:

  • Confidentiality: This is the concept of preventing sensitive data from being accessible by any unauthorized entities.
  • Integrity: This means protecting sensitive data from unauthorized changes during transit from one party to another party.
  • Authentication: This is the process of ensuring that user identity is truly what the user claims it to be, whether the user is human or a system.
  • Authorization: This is the concept of determining...

Anatomizing a blockchain consensus mechanism

A fundamental problem in large-scale distributed systems is how to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of failures. Systems need to be fault-tolerant. This requires a process for distributed, often heterogeneous systems to reach a consensus and agree on the network state, whether it is a database commit or an action to take. In this section, we will discuss two types of consensus algorithms, PoW and proof-of-stake (PoS).

What is consensus?

Consensus in a blockchain is the process by which a network of mutually distrusted nodes reaches an agreement on the global state of the chain of blocks. In blockchain, transactions or data are shared and distributed across the...

Understanding Bitcoin and cryptocurrency

Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin, which is considered the origin of all cryptocurrencies. In this section, we will introduce the basics of Bitcoin and discuss the digital payment mechanism with Bitcoin.

Bitcoin basics

Bitcoin is a decentralized electronic cash system that makes peer-to-peer payment possible without going through an intermediary. The original Bitcoin software was developed by Satoshi Nakamoto, released under the MIT license in 2009, following the Bitcoin whitepaper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Bitcoin is the first successful implementation of a distributed cryptocurrency. Ten years after Bitcoin was born, as of February 16, 2019, it has...

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Introducing Ethereum architecture

Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum and co-founder of the Ethereum Foundation, envisioned Ethereum as a decentralized computing platform that enables anyone to create, store, and run smart contract-based Decentralized Applications, or DApps.

As the following diagram shows, an Ethereum blockchain network is a decentralized Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network of Ethereum clients, representing network nodes. An Ethereum client refers to any node that can verify the new transaction, execute the smart contract, and process new blocks of the chain. It is a kind of enclave, residing in thousands of computers or devices on the internet, and connected through the Ethereum P2P network. What is enclaved is the EVM and the runtime environment in the P2P network for smart contract execution. The following diagram shows the P2P network:

Ethereum clients run...

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Key benefits

  • Explore the Ethereum ecosystem and understand the latest research on the platform
  • Build decentralized apps (Dapps) using smart contracts and Ethereum with the help of practical examples
  • Learn to make your decentralized applications fast and highly secure

Description

Ethereum is a blockchain-based, decentralized computing platform that allows running smart contracts. This book provides a basic overview of how Ethereum works, its ecosystem, mining process, and the consensus mechanism. It also demonstrates a step-by-step approach for building decentralized applications. This book begins with the very basics of Blockchain technology. Then it dives deep into the Ethereum architecture, framework and tools in its ecosystem. It also provides you an overview of ongoing research on Ethereum, for example, Layer 1 and 2 scaling solution, Stablecoin, ICO/STO/IEO, etc. Next, it explains Solidity language in detail, and provides step-by-step instructions for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and monitoring decentralized applications. In addition, you’ll learn how to use Truffle, Remix, Infura, Metamask, and many other Ethereum technologies. It’ll also help you develop your own cryptocurrency by creating ERC20, and ERC721 smart contracts from scratch. Finally, we explain private blockchains, and you learn how to interact with smart contracts through wallets.

Who is this book for?

This book is for all developers and architects who want to explore Ethereum blockchain fundamentals and get started with building real-world decentralized applications. Knowledge of an object-oriented programming language such as JavaScript will be useful but not mandatory.

What you will learn

  • Understand the concepts of blockchain and cryptocurrency
  • Master Ethereum development tools such as Truffle, Remix IDE and Infura
  • Delve into smart contract development
  • Develop DApps frontend using Node.js, React.js, and Web3js API
  • Learn Etherscan and other tools to secure and monitor smart contracts
  • Develop and debug smart contracts by working with Remix
  • Apply Truffle suite to compile, migrate, and unit test smart contracts
  • Explore smart contracts such as ERC20 token and decentralized digital market
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Section 1: Blockchain and Ethereum Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Ethereum Architecture and Ecosystem Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deep Research on Ethereum Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Blockchain Development Cycle Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Solidity Fundamentals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Developing Your Own Cryptocurrency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Ethereum Implementations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Smart Contract Development and Test Fundamentals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Writing UI for the DApps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Ethereum Tools and Frameworks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 4: Production and Deployment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating an Ethereum Private Chain Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deployment of Your Smart Contract Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building Ethereum Wallets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The pictures in the book are horrible. Super small and poor quality. Some are not legible at all…
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The book has a nice coverage, however the material presented is not uniformly deep / systematic / structured enough. As a result the reader might not have the big picture view once you complete the reading. So it would be up to the reader to gain that big picture based on the further reading. With this said, the book is great to give the keywords / main concepts / initial orientation.
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The authors seem overly constrained by the space available. Often a topic will be well-introduced, but the discussion gets oddly cut off, as if they ran out of room in the chapter. This issue means that in many cases, the code examples and explanations give just a little less information than you would need to reproduce them.A good introduction to concepts in the programmable blockchain, but if you really want to do it yourself you'll need more than just this book.
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Love the text, but the diagrams are untenable. Grey on grey in grey. Literally no contrast. Unreable
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