Michael Yuan

Broschiertes Buch

Building Blockchain Apps

Beschreibung

A Developer's Guide to Blockchain Programming FundamentalsBlockchain development is entering a period of explosive growth, as real applications gain traction throughout multiple industries and cryptocurrencies earn greater acceptance throughout the financial sector. Blockchain represents one of the most promising opportunities for developers to advance and succeed. Building Blockchain Apps is an accessible guide to today’s most advanced and robust blockchain programming models and architectures.Building on his pioneering experience, Michael Juntao Yuan covers a wide range of blockchain application development paradigms. The book starts with a concise introduction to blockchain and smart contract technologies. It then guides you through application development on Ethereum-compatible smart contract platforms. Ethereum is the largest and most robust blockchain ecosystem in the world.Coverage includesEthereum topics such as tools, application frameworks, internal data structures, external data interfaces, and future roadmapAn introduction to new blockchain data protocol based on ElasticSearch, which provides insights into the current state of smart contracts and enables new application designsHow to build an application-specific smart contract protocol by modifying and customizing the open source Ethereum Virtual Machine and its programming language toolsHow to extend and support language features that are most suitable for particular kinds of smart contracts (e.g., smart contracts for e-commerce marketplaces) with the open source Lity projectHow to customize and change the blockchain consensus layer beneath the application layer via the popular Tendermint and Cosmos SDK frameworksA survey of cryptocurrency and financial topics from the developers’ point of view, providing an analytical framework for valuating cryptocurrencies and explaining the roles of crypto exchangesRegister your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Autor

Dr. Michael Juntao Yuan is the CEO of Second State Inc., a VC-funded startup that builds and commercializes blockchain infrastructure software. He is also a cofounder of the CyberMiles Foundation, which focuses on building a decentralized e-commerce ecosystem on the CyberMiles public blockchain. Dr. Yuan has extensive experience with the development and commercialization of open source software. He was an early employee at JBoss and was a product manager at Red Hat. He is also the principal investigator of multiple research awards from the National Institutes of Health. He received a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson / Pearson Education Limited / Pearson International
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780135172322
• ISBN-10: 0135172322
• Artikelnr.: 51199529