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Building Blockchain Projects
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Building Blockchain Projects

by Narayan Prusty
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
7h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to LightWallet

LightWallet is an HD wallet that implements BIP32, BIP39, and BIP44. LightWallet provides APIs to create and sign transactions or encrypt and decrypt data using the addresses and keys generated using it.

LightWallet API is divided into four namespaces, that is, keystore, signing, encryption, and txutils. signing, encrpytion, and txutils provide APIs to sign transactions, asymmetric cryptography, and create transactions respectively, whereas a keystore namespace is used to create a keystore, generated seed, and so on. keystore is an object that holds the seed and keys encrypted. The keystore namespace implements transaction signer methods that requires signing the we3.eth.sendTransaction() calls if we are using ...

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