February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
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Advanced Topics and the Road Ahead
This chapter deals with select advanced topics related to Ethereum and blockchains. We discuss five broad topics to further your research interests and academic pursuits. We begin with a section on common design patterns that can be applied during smart contract development at enterprise level. Then we move on to the topic of decentralized, autonomous corporations and societies. We devote an entire section to the Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP), where we discuss the life cycle of a proposal. Consortium blockchain concepts are revisited with case studies. We conclude the chapter with a unique topic called Tangle and provide indicators to explore the emerging field of graph-based, distributed ledger technology ...