February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
Content preview from Ethereum Smart Contract Development
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The Ethereum ecosystem
In Chapter 1, Blockchain Basics, we studied how an Ethereum blockchain is represented as a giant Merkle tree with the leaves of the tree being the state of execution of a code. We also learned that blockchains are distributed ledgers with a web 3.0 framework.
Figure 2.4 depicts such a framework for an Ethereum technological stack. Things are going to get tricky now, so please pay close attention:
Figure 2.4: Web 3.0 tech stack for Ethereum, Source: Ethereum stack exchange