Ethereum Projects for Beginners: Build blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and DApps

✍ Scribed by Kenny Vaneetvelde

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 102
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understand the Ethereum platform to build distributed applications that are secured and decentralized using blockchain technology

Key Features

• Build your own decentralized applications using real-world blockchain examples
• Implement Ethereum for building smart contracts and cryptocurrency applications with easy-to-follow projects
• Enhance your application security with blockchain

Book Description

Ethereum enables the development of efficient, smart contracts that contain code. These smart contracts can interact with other smart contracts to make decisions, store data, and send Ether to others.Ethereum Projects for Beginners provides you with a clear introduction to creating cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and decentralized applications. As you make your way through the book, you'll get to grips with detailed step-by-step processes to build advanced Ethereum projects. Each project will teach you enough about Ethereum to be productive right away. You will learn how tokenization works, think in a decentralized way, and build blockchain-based distributed computing systems. Towards the end of the book, you will develop interesting Ethereum projects such as creating wallets and secure data sharing.By the end of this book, you will be able to tackle blockchain challenges by implementing end-to-end projects using the full power of the Ethereum blockchain.

What you will learn

• Develop your ideas fast and efficiently using the Ethereum blockchain
• Make writing and deploying smart contracts easy and manageable
• Work with private data in blockchain applications
• Handle large files in blockchain applications
• Ensure your decentralized applications are safe
• Explore how Ethereum development frameworks work
• Create your own cryptocurrency or token on the Ethereum blockchain
• Make sure your cryptocurrency is ERC20-compliant to launch an ICO

Who this book is for

This book is for individuals who want to build decentralized applications using blockchain technology and the power of Ethereum from scratch. Some prior knowledge of JavaScript is required, since most examples use a web frontend.

Table of Contents

1. Workflow Setup & Thinking Blockchain
2. Developing your first Decentralized Application with Ethereum
3. Creating your own Cryptocurrency on the Ethereum Blockchain
4. Signing Legal Documents on the Blockchain & Identity Verification
5. Ethereum Outside the PC/Web Environment

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributor
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Workflow Setup and Thinking Blockchain
Ethereum-based projects
Gnosis
FirstBlood
Dynamis
Ujo Music
Golem
Overview of blockchain and Ethereum
Going from Bitcoin to Ethereum
The benefits and limitations
Benefits of blockchain and Ethereum
Limitations of blockchain and Ethereum
Overcoming limitations
Setting up the workflow
Requirements
Getting started
Summary
Chapter 2: Developing Your First Decentralized Application with Ethereum
Creating a project
Deploying and testing a projects
Starting a development blockchain 
Configuring your deployment
Deploying the smart contracts
Exploring the Solidity syntax and JavaScript codes
Understanding the Solidity syntax
Working with JavaScript
Bug fixing and debugging smart contracts
Changing our application with a better payment application
Summary
Chapter 3: Creating Your Own Cryptocurrency on the Ethereum Blockchain
Creating an ERC20 token
Installing OpenZepplin Solidity
Setting up new project
Deploying and testing ERC20 tokens
Deploying ERC20 tokens
Testing ERC20 tokens
Understanding token standards
ERC20
ERC721
ERC827
Using tokens and executing logic
Summary
Chapter 4: Signing Legal Documents on Blockchains and Identity Verification
User identity and sensitive data on the blockchain
Hashing
Dealing with files and large data on the blockchain
User identity verification with blockchains
Signing a document on the blockchain 
Summary
Chapter 5: Ethereum Outside the PC/Web Environment
Ethereum outside the browser
Ethereum and IoT
Ethereum and smartphone applications
Using a DApp browser
Using Android or the iOS library
Further steps and resources
Summary
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index