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Creating and Deploying Your First Smart Contract

In this chapter, you will learn to write your first smart contract. The chapter will guide you to set up the development environment and tools required. We will guide you step by step to write your first solidity smart contract. This will be a very simple ERC20 token smart contract, providing an introduction to writing a smart contract and all the basic elements of a smart contract in a practical way. Once the smart contract is written, you will be shown how to compile, deploy, and test them. You’ll learn about Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs), which are essential components that allow your application to interact with and execute functions within a smart contract. They serve as an interpretive ...

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