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Mastering Blockchain, Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Blockchain, Fourth Edition Inner workings of blockchain, from cryptography and decentralized identities, to DeFi, NFTs and Web3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241067
Length 818 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
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Preface 1. Blockchain 101 FREE CHAPTER 2. Decentralization 3. Symmetric Cryptography 4. Asymmetric Cryptography 5. Consensus Algorithms 6. Bitcoin Architecture 7. Bitcoin in Practice 8. Smart Contracts 9. Ethereum Architecture 10. Ethereum in Practice 11. Tools, Languages, and Frameworks for Ethereum Developers 12. Web3 Development Using Ethereum 13. The Merge and Beyond 14. Hyperledger 15. Tokenization 16. Enterprise Blockchain 17. Scalability 18. Blockchain Privacy 19. Blockchain Security 20. Decentralized Identity 21. Decentralized Finance 22. Blockchain Applications and What’s Next 23. Index

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Web3 is a JavaScript library that can be used to communicate with an Ethereum node via RPC communication. Web3 works by exposing methods that have been enabled over RPC. This allows the development of user interfaces (UIs) that make use of the Web3 library in order to interact with contracts deployed over the blockchain.

In this chapter, we'll explore the Web3 API, and introduce some detailed examples of how smart contracts are written, tested, and deployed to the Ethereum blockchain. We will use various tools such as the Remix IDE and Ganache to develop and test smart contracts...

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