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Mastering Ethereum - Building Blockchain Service Contracts and Decentralized Apps

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood

Note: This is the original source reformatted in a single-page book edition (using the Manuscripts format).

• What is Ethereum?
  • Compared to Bitcoin
    • Components of a blockchain
  • Development of Ethereum
  • The birth of Ethereum
  • Ethereum's four stages of development
    • Past transitions
    • Current state
    • Future plans
  • Ethereum: A general purpose blockchain
  • Ethereum's components
    • Further references
  • Ethereum and Turing Completeness
    • Turing Completeness as a "feature"
    • Implications of Turing Completeness
  • From general purpose blockchains to Decentralized Applications (DApps)
  • Evolving the World Wide Web
  • Ethereum's development culture
  • Why learn Ethereum?
  • What this book will teach you?
• Tokens
  • What are tokens?
  • How are tokens used?
  • Tokens and fungibility
  • Counterparty risk
  • Tokens and intrinsicality
  • Using tokens: utility or equity
    • It's not a duck
    • Utility tokens: who needs them?
  • Token Standards
    • ERC20 Token Standard
      • ERC20 required functions & events
      • ERC20 optional functions
      • The ERC20 interface defined in Solidity
      • ERC20 data structures
      • ERC20 workflows: "transfer" and "approve & transferFrom"
      • ERC20 Implementations
    • Launching our own ERC20 token
    • Interacting with METoken using the truffle console
    • Sending ERC20 tokens to contract addresses
    • Demonstrating the approve & transferFrom workflow
    • Issues with ERC20 tokens
    • ERC223 - a proposed token contract interface standard
    • ERC777 - a proposed token contract interface standard
    • ERC721 - non-fungible token (deed) standard
  • Token standards
    • What are token standards? What is their purpose?
    • Should you use these standards?
  • Security by maturity
  • Extensions to token interface standards
  • Tokens and ICOs

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Sources

See the original source repo.