A Developer’s Guide to Blockchain Programming Fundamentals Blockchain development is entering a period of explosive growth, as real applications gain traction throughout multiple industries and cryptocurrencies earn greater acceptance throughout the financial sector. Blockchain represents one of the most promising opportunities for developers to advance and succeed. Building Blockchain Apps is an accessible guide to today’s most advanced and robust blockchain programming models and architectures. Building on his pioneering experience, Michael Juntao Yuan covers a wide range of blockchain application development paradigms. The book starts with a concise introduction to blockchain and smart contract technologies. It then guides you through application development on Ethereum-compatible smart contract platforms. Ethereum is the largest and most robust blockchain ecosystem in the world. Coverage includes
Ethereum topics such as tools, application frameworks, internal data structures, external data interfaces, and future roadmap
An introduction to new blockchain data protocol based on ElasticSearch, which provides insights into the current state of smart contracts and enables new application designs
How to build an application-specific smart contract protocol by modifying and customizing the open source Ethereum Virtual Machine and its programming language tools
How to extend and support language features that are most suitable for particular kinds of smart contracts (e.g., smart contracts for e-commerce marketplaces) with the open source Lity project
How to customize and change the blockchain consensus layer beneath the application layer via the popular Tendermint and Cosmos SDK frameworks
A survey of cryptocurrency and financial topics from the developers’ point of view, providing an analytical framework for valuating cryptocurrencies and explaining the roles of crypto exchanges
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Building on his pioneering experience, Michael Yuan introduces today’s most popular blockchain development paradigm, Ethereum Smart Contract programming. Yuan guides you through working with Dapps, ERC20 tokens, programming for ICOs, and more. Next, he introduces next-generation Tendermint / Cosmos programming models and software architectures that overcome key limitations of previous blockchain environments, reducing congestion and enabling unprecedented scalability. Finally, he introduces potential blockchain applications in key sectors, including Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Finance, Exchanges, and Healthcare.
Students will:
Master cutting-edge blockchain development technologies including Tendermint and Cosmos
Build decentralized blockchain applications for e-commerce, marketplaces, finance, supply chains, healthcare, content distribution, and more
Help financial institutions enable virtual currencies and achieve revolutionary process improvements
Preview next-generation techniques that transcend the limitations of today’s cryptocurrencies
upercharge your technical career by mastering blockchain application development
Master cutting-edge blockchain development technologies including Tendermint and Cosmos
Build decentralized blockchain applications for e-commerce, marketplaces, finance, supply chains, healthcare, content distribution, and more
Help financial institutions enable virtual currencies and achieve revolutionary process improvements
Preview next-generation techniques that transcend the limitations of today’s cryptocurrencies
About the Author
Dr. Michael Juntao Yuan is the CEO of Second State Inc., a VC-funded startup that builds and commercializes blockchain infrastructure software. He is also a cofounder of the CyberMiles Foundation, which focuses on building a decentralized e-commerce ecosystem on the CyberMiles public blockchain. Dr. Yuan has extensive experience with the development and commercialization of open source software. He was an early employee at JBoss and was a product manager at Red Hat. He is also the principal investigator of multiple research awards from the National Institutes of Health. He received a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Texas at Austin.
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