Mastering Ethereum

Mastering Ethereum is a book for developers, offering a guide to the operation and use of the Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, RootStock (RSK) and other compatible EVM-based open blockchains.

Reading this book

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Chapters

• Preface: 'Preface'
• Chapter 1: 'What Is Ethereum'
• Chapter 2: 'Ethereum Basics'
• Chapter 3: 'Ethereum Clients'
• Chapter 4: 'Cryptography'
• Chapter 5: 'Wallets'
• Chapter 6: 'Transactions'
• Chapter 7: 'Smart Contracts and Solidity'
• Chapter 8: 'Smart Contracts and Vyper'
• Chapter 9: 'Smart Contract Security'
• Chapter 10: 'Tokens'
• Chapter 11: 'Oracles'
• Chapter 12: 'Decentralized Applications (DApps)'
• Chapter 13: 'The Ethereum Virtual Machine'
• Chapter 14: 'Consensus'

Content

The content status is "COMPLETE". The first edition of this book was published on December 1st, 2018. That edition is available in print and ebook format at many popular bookstores. It is tagged "first_edition_first_print" in the develop branch of this repository.

At this time, only bug fix requests are accepted. If you find a bug, start an issue or better yet, fix the problem with a pull request. We will start work on the second edition in late 2019.

Source and license

The first edition of this book, as printed and sold by O'Reilly Media, is available in this repository.

Mastering Ethereum is released under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.

This "Free Culture" compliant license was approved by our publisher O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com), who understands the value of open source. O'Reilly Media is not just the world's best publisher of technical books, but is also a strong supporter of this open culture and the sharing of knowledge.

Mastering Ethereum by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook.

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