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Mastering Blockchain.. - Third Edition

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Product type Book

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839213199

Pages 816 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Author (1):

Imran Bashir

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Blockchain 101

2. Decentralization

3. Symmetric Cryptography

4. Public Key Cryptography

5. Consensus Algorithms

6. Introducing Bitcoin

7. The Bitcoin Network and Payments

8. Bitcoin Clients and APIs

9. Alternative Coins

10. Smart Contracts

11. Ethereum 101

12. Further Ethereum

13. Ethereum Development Environment

14. Development Tools and Frameworks

15. Introducing Web3

16. Serenity

17. Hyperledger

18. Tokenization

19. Blockchain – Outside of Currencies

20. Enterprise Blockchain

21. Scalability and Other Challenges

22. Current Landscape and What's Next

23. Index

Development frameworks

There are various development frameworks now available for Ethereum. As seen in the examples discussed earlier, it can be quite time-consuming to deploy the contracts via manual means. This is where Truffle and similar frameworks such as Embark can be used to make the process simpler and quicker. We have chosen Truffle because it has a more active developer community and is currently the most widely used framework for Ethereum development. However, note that there is no best framework as all frameworks aim to provide methods to make development, testing, and deployment easier.

You can read more about Embark here: https://github.com/embark-framework/embark.

In the next section, you will be introduced to an example project to demonstrate the usage of the Truffle framework.

Using Truffle to develop a decentralized application

We discussed Truffle briefly in Chapter 14, Development Tools and Frameworks. In this section, we will see an...

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Authors (1)

Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.

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