Manoj P R - Ethereum Cookbook

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Manoj P R is a tech-savvy person who has been working with distributed ledger technology for more than three years. His passion for the latest technology trends in the market has made him an avid learner and contributor in this space. He specializes in Ethereum, JavaScript, and Go. A self-taught programmer, Manoj started his programming career as a freelancer during his early academic life. He has developed many scalable enterprise blockchain solutions for various clients across the globe. He is currently associated with Conduent Labs as a Blockchain SME. He loves solving real-life problems using technology and is a lively contributor towards open source projects. Apart from work, Manoj likes traveling and writing.

Mayukh Mukhopadhyay is an assistant consultant at Tata Consultancy Services who works on the big data and revenue assurance projects of the world's oldest telecommunication company, where he tames messy data to generate tangible insights. He has authored the book Ethereum Smart Contract Development and engages in occasional pro-bono consultation on blockchain implementation. He has a master's in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University and is an executive MBA candidate at IIT Kharagpur.

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With this practical guide, you will learn how to set up Ethereum and connect to a network, write and deploy quality smart contracts, use Truffle and Ganache to manage your development, create your own Tokens and ICOs, build decentralized games and organization, create your own wallet that supports multiple tokens, and much more.

You'll also learn about the security vulnerabilities that can arise and various other protocols of Ethereum. Moving on, youll learn the various design decisions and tips to make your application scalable and secure. With this book and the advanced topics it covers, you can get well versed with the Ethereum principles and ecosystem.

If you want to set up an Ethereum blockchain network, write and deploy smart contracts, build decentralized applications (DApps) or facilitate peer-to-peer transaction, then this book is for you. It is recommended that the readers should be familiar with basic blockchain concepts and knowledge of JavaScript and NodeJS.

, Getting Started , covers the very basics of Ethereum and its tools. You will find the steps required to set up and run a network and interact with it.

, Smart Contract Development , contains a set of recipes that will help you write smart contracts. It also covers the steps to compile, deploy, and test the contracts that you have written.

, Interacting with the Contract , covers the topics that are essential for building a decentralized application (DApp) that can interact with blockchain and the contracts.

, The Truffle Suite , explains a popular tool in the Ethereum ecosystem. This chapter also explains the use cases that will help you to have a better development workflow and build better DApps.