Mastering Ethereum
Building Smart Contracts and DApps
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood
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Discover why IBM, Microsoft, NASDAQ, and hundreds of other organizations are experimenting with Ethereum. This essential guide shows you how to develop the skills necessary to be an innovator in this growing and exciting new industry.
- Run an Ethereum client, create and transmit basic transactions, and program smart contracts;
- Learn the essentials of public key cryptography, hashes, and digital signatures;
- Understand how "wallets" hold digital keys that control funds and smart contracts;
- Interact with Ethereum clients programmatically using JavaScript libraries and Remote Procedure Call interfaces;
- Learn security best practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns with real-world examples;
- Create tokens that represent assets, shares, votes, or access control rights;
- Build decentralized applications using multiple peer-to-peer (P2P) components. 
Book Description
Ethereum represents the gateway to a worldwide, decentralized computing paradigm. This platform enables you to run decentralized applications (DApps) and smart contracts that have no central points of failure or control, integrate with a payment network, and operate on an open blockchain. With this practical guide, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood provide everything you need to know about building smart contracts and DApps on Ethereum and other virtual-machine blockchains.Discover why IBM, Microsoft, NASDAQ, and hundreds of other organizations are experimenting with Ethereum. This essential guide shows you how to develop the skills necessary to be an innovator in this growing and exciting new industry.
- Run an Ethereum client, create and transmit basic transactions, and program smart contracts;
- Learn the essentials of public key cryptography, hashes, and digital signatures;
- Understand how "wallets" hold digital keys that control funds and smart contracts;
- Interact with Ethereum clients programmatically using JavaScript libraries and Remote Procedure Call interfaces;
- Learn security best practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns with real-world examples;
- Create tokens that represent assets, shares, votes, or access control rights;
- Build decentralized applications using multiple peer-to-peer (P2P) components.
This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND). Free download in PDF format is not available. You can read Mastering Ethereum book online for free.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
What Is Ethereum?
Chapter 2
Ethereum Basics
Chapter 3
Ethereum Clients
Chapter 4
Cryptography
Chapter 5
Wallets
Chapter 6
Transactions
Chapter 7
Smart Contracts and Solidity
Chapter 8
Smart Contracts and Vyper
Chapter 9
Smart Contract Security
Chapter 10
Tokens
Chapter 11
Oracles
Chapter 12
Decentralized Applications (DApps)
Chapter 13
The Ethereum Virtual Machine
Chapter 14
Consensus
Appendix A
Ethereum Fork History
Appendix B
Ethereum Standards
Appendix C
Ethereum EVM Opcodes and Gas Consumption
Appendix D
Development Tools, Frameworks, and Libraries
Appendix E
web3.js Tutorial
Book Details
Title
Mastering Ethereum
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
2018
Pages
424
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9781491971949
ISBN10 Digital
1491971940
License
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