Ethereum Smart Contract Development电子书

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Ethereum Smart Contract Development

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Blockchain Basics

Understanding distributed systems

The Byzantine Generals' Problem

Losing strategy

Winning strategy

The CAP theorem

Consensus in distributed systems

Understanding the hash function and the Merkle tree

Understanding a blockchain–a developer and trader's perspective

Inside a block

Blockchain mining and forking

Blockchains – evolution, generations, and hype

Summary

Grokking Ethereum

Understanding Ethereum

The notion of decentralization

The Ethereum ecosystem

Mist

Decentralized applications

Middleware

Swarm

Whisper

EVM

Hardware clients and internet

Turing completeness and the magic sauce

Ethereum block, mining, and forking

The Ethereum wallet and client interface

Summary

Hello World of Smart Contracts

A smart contract in seven lines of code

Remix in a nutshell

Increment and decrement operations using Solidity

Coding a loop

Raising an issue on GitHub

Smart contract on a private blockchain

Writing the genesis block

Building a private blockchain

Connecting MIST browser using geth

Mining ethers in a private blockchain

Deploying smart contracts on our private chain

Summary

A Noob's Guide to DApps and DAO

Understanding DApps

Steps to develop a DApp

Architecture of a DApp

What is ethercast?

btcrelay.org

oraclize.it

the-pitts-circus.com

Understanding the design of DAO

The rise and fall of DAO

Summary

Deep-Diving into Smart Contracts

What makes a contract "smart"?

Definition and design

Role of code in a smart contract

Basic anatomy of a smart contract design

Smart contract optimization

Smart contract auditing and compliance

Designing a voting DApp

Summary

Solidity in Depth

Need for solidity

Nuances, syntax, and features of solidity

Pragma, import, and comments

Class properties of a contract

Functions

Events

Inheritance

Libraries

Expression and control structures

Units and variables

Optimizer and debugging options

Parity hack demystified

Summary

Primer on Web3.js

Web3.js in the Ethereum ecosystem

Running a smart contract using Web3.js

API structure of Web3.js

Designing an ownership contract

Summary

Developing a Cryptocurrency from Scratch

Token versus coin

ERC20 token development using Truffle

Arbitrage trading for cryptocurrencies

The ICO story

Fiat2Crypto and Crypto2Crypto exchange

Parity hack returns

Summary

Enterprise Use Cases

Banking and payments

Insurance

Supply chain management

Forecasting and prediction market

Charity

Public benefits

Energy management

Art and music

Retail

Real estate

Cyber security

Crowdfunding

Networking and the Internet of Things

Voting

Government

Private transport and ride sharing

Cloud storage

Healthcare

Smart contract use cases

Insurance

Trade finance

Derivatives

Securities

Accounts

Digital identity

Record-keeping

Loans and mortgages

Legal

Supply chain

Clinical trials

Terminal disease research

Decentralized microblogging

Administrative and security constraints

TwtAccount.sol

TwtRegistry.sol

Service setup on the private blockchain

Reading tweets

Summary

BaaS and the Dark Web Market

Playful privacy

Types of blockchain

Private blockchains

Public blockchains

Consortium blockchains

Blockchain-as-a-service

Enterprise platforms for BaaS

IBM Hyperledger

Microsoft Azure EBaaS

Amazon Eris

Dark web marketplace

Project smartCV

Summary

Advanced Topics and the Road Ahead

Common design patterns

Restricting access

Token systems

Factory pattern

Registries

Voting systems

DACs and DAS

Ethereum improvement proposal

Rational behind EIPs

Types of EIP

EIP life cycle

EIP template

Consortium blockchains

Case study on R3 Corda

Tangle beyond blockchain

Shortcomings of a blockchain

Tangle demystified

Iota GitHub analysis

Purchase and storage of Iota

Summary

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