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Ethereum Smart Contract Development

You're reading from Ethereum Smart Contract Development Build blockchain-based decentralized applications using solidity

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788473040

Length 288 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Solidity

Tools

Ethereum

Concepts

Cryptocurrency

Author (1):

Mayukh Mukhopadhyay

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. Blockchain Basics

2. Grokking Ethereum FREE CHAPTER

3. Hello World of Smart Contracts

4. A Noob's Guide to DApps and DAO

5. Deep-Diving into Smart Contracts

6. Solidity in Depth

7. Primer on Web3.js

8. Developing a Cryptocurrency from Scratch

9. Enterprise Use Cases

10. BaaS and the Dark Web Market

11. Advanced Topics and the Road Ahead

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Summary

Solidity is a work-in-progress yet well-documented language, being gradually developed as users face various problems while implementing smart contracts on the blockchain. In this chapter, we have covered a few fundamental aspects of this new language. We started off with praising JavaScript and how it has evolved as a robust language for web development. Solidity has been chosen for the blockchain on this legacy. Then we moved on to see various nuances this language has to offer us with its new concept of contract-oriented programming. We then nose-dived into the solidity optimizer's inner workings, and explored debugging options using events and bare-bone assembly opcodes. We closed the chapter by discussing and analyzing the Parity wallet hack, which helped in gaining deeper insights into how libraries and fallback functions play a crucial yet vulnerable role in ensuring the future of the smart contract industry. To be honest, it is just the beginning and we have barely scratched...

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Authors (1)

Mayukh Mukhopadhyay

Mayukh Mukhopadhyay

Mayukh Mukhopadhyay started his career as a BI developer. After the 2008-09 financial crisis, he was at Tata Consultancy Services for one of their Fortune 500 clients in the telecom sector. Holding a master's in software engineering from Jadavpur University, he is presently working as a data insight developer, where he focuses on applying data science and machine learning to raw telecom equipment logs to generate business insights. He has a varied list of academic interests, ranging from audio signal processing, structural bioinformatics, and bio-inspired algorithms to consciousness engineering. Apart from being an Oracle Certified Specialist, he is a Certified Bitcoin Professional, recognized by C4 (Crypto Currency Certification Consortium). He tries to apply blockchain as a technology to different business domains.

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