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Ethereum Cookbook

You're reading from   Ethereum Cookbook Over 100 recipes covering Ethereum-based tokens, games, wallets, smart contracts, protocols, and Dapps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133998
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manoj P R Manoj P R
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Smart Contract Development 3. Interacting with the Contract 4. The Truffle Suite 5. Tokens and ICOs 6. Games and DAOs 7. Advanced Solidity 8. Smart Contract Security 9. Design Decisions 10. Other Protocols and Applications 11. Miscellaneous 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Scheduling Ethereum transactions using an alarm clock


Ethereum needs an external actor to perform transactions. This restricts anyone to schedule a transaction which will get executed in the future. Ethereum has a scheduling smart contract, which helps in solving such problems. This contract helps to design and implement more complex DApps that depend on future transactions.

In this recipe, you will learn to schedule transactions that will be executed in the future and develop DApps around those future transactions.

Getting ready

You need to have an understanding of Ethereum and smart contracts to get more out of this recipe. Refer to the first three chapters of this book to get a basic understanding of Ethereum and building DApps.

How to do it…

  1. Ethereum Alarm Clock(EAC) is a smart contract that lives in the Ethereum blockchain. This makes the service trusted and accessible from other smart contracts.
  2. To interact with the EAC service, you need to use the scheduler interface. The interface provides...
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