Mine ether, deploy smart contracts, tokens, and icos, and manage security vulnerabilities of ethereumkey featuresbuild end to end decentralized ethereum apps using truffle, web3, and solidityexplore various solution based recipes to build smart contracts and foolproof decentralized applicationsdevelop decentralized marketplaces from scratch, build wallets, and manage transactionsbook descriptionethereum and blockchain will change the way software is built for business transactions. Most industries have been looking to leverage these new technologies to gain efficiencies and create new business models and opportunities. The ethereum cookbook covers various solutions such as setting up ethereum, writing smart contracts, and creating tokens, among others. You ll learn about the security vulnerabilities, along with other protocols of ethereum. Once you have understood the basics, you ll move on to exploring various design decisions and tips to make your application scalable and secure. In addition to this, you ll work with various ethereum packages such as truffle, web3, and ganache. By the end of this book, you ll have comprehensively grasped the ethereum principles and ecosystem. What you will learnefficiently write smart contracts in ethereumbuild scalable distributed applications and deploy themuse tools and frameworks to develop, deploy, and test your applicationuse block explorers such as etherscan to find a specific transactioncreate your own tokens, initial coin offerings icos, and gamesunderstand various security flaws in smart contracts in order to avoid themwho this book is forthe ethereum cookbook is for you if you are a software engineer, blockchain developer, or research scientist who wants to build smart contracts, develop decentralized applications, and facilitate peer to peer transaction. It is assumed that you are familiar with blockchain concepts and have sound knowledge of javascript.