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Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers

You're reading from   Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers Empowering Python developers in the world of blockchain and smart contracts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121367
Length 436 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Arjuna Sky Kok Arjuna Sky Kok
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Blockchain and Smart Contract FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Blockchain Programming 3. Chapter 2: Smart Contract Fundamentals 4. Chapter 3: Using Vyper to Implement a Smart Contract 5. Part 2: Web3 and Ape Framework
6. Chapter 4: Using Web3.py to Interact with Smart Contracts 7. Chapter 5: Ape Framework 8. Chapter 6: Building a Practical Decentralized Application 9. Part 3: Graphical User Interface Applications
10. Chapter 7: Front-End Decentralized Application 11. Chapter 8: Cryptocurrency Wallet 12. Part 4: Related Technologies
13. Chapter 9: InterPlanetary: A Brave New File System 14. Chapter 10: Implementing a Decentralized Application Using IPFS 15. Chapter 11: Exploring Layer 2 16. Part 5: Cryptocurrency and NFT
17. Chapter 12: Creating Tokens on Ethereum 18. Chapter 13: How to Create an NFT 19. Part 6: Writing Complex Smart Contracts
20. Chapter 14: Writing NFT Marketplace Smart Contracts 21. Chapter 15: Writing a Lending Vault Smart Contract 22. Chapter 16: Decentralized Exchange 23. Part 7: Building a Full-Stack Web3 Application
24. Chapter 17: Token-Gated Applications 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Networks in blockchain

In the course of this chapter, you have learned how to develop smart contracts on development blockchains. You’ve tested contracts manually with scripts and you’ve tested them automatically with unit tests. Now, it’s time to deploy a smart contract to the Ethereum mainnet. Before you do that, you should familiarize yourself with other kinds of blockchains that are helpful for developing smart contracts: testnet blockchains. The most popular Ethereum testnet blockchain is Sepolia.

What are the differences between Sepolia and Ganache?

Ganache only runs on your computer and only one computer maintains it. Sepolia runs on the internet and is used by many people. There is a set of validators maintaining the Sepolia network.

This means you can deploy your smart contract to Sepolia and let your friends in a different country use it. It’s not that you cannot do that with Ganache, but Ganache is not scalable for that purpose. It’...

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