Chapter 9. The Ethereum ecosystem

This chapter covers
  • A bird’s-eye view of the full Ethereum ecosystem
  • Decentralized address resolution with ENS
  • Decentralized content storage on Swarm and IPFS
  • External data access through oracles
  • Dapp frameworks and IDEs

In previous chapters, you learned about the main components of the Ethereum platform and how to implement and deploy a decentralized application using simple tools such as the Remix IDE and the geth console. You then improved the efficiency of the development cycle by partially automating the deployment with Node.js. You made further efficiency improvements by deploying and running your smart contracts on a private network and, ultimately, on Ganache, where you progressively ...

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