The Ethereum Blockchain - Introduction to Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications
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The document provides an introduction to the Ethereum blockchain, emphasizing its architecture, smart contracts, and decentralized applications. It covers key topics such as setting up different types of nodes, the Solidity programming language, the OpenZeppelin framework, and the Truffle suite for smart contract development. Overall, it serves as a comprehensive guide for understanding and developing on the Ethereum platform.
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- 1. THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN INTRODUCTION TO SMART CONTRACTS AND DECENTRALIZED APPLICATIONS Alessandro Sanino University of Turin Computer Science Departmen
- 2. AGENDA • The Ethereum Blockchain • Setting up a node • Introduction to Solidity • The OpenZeppelin framework
- 3. AGENDA • The Truffle Suite • Deployment of a Smart Contract on local environment • Testing Smart Contracts • From test to mainnet • DApps development principles
- 5. THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN • Same high level architecture as Bitcoin or other Blockchains • PoW consensus model • Miners set up a gas price and gas limit to choose which tx to mine
- 6. THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN There is one main difference: Transactions can also trigger computer code execution, which is stored to correspond a certain address.
- 7. THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN Transactions can also trigger computer code execution, which is stored to correspond a certain address The so-called SMART CONTRACTS, can be triggered by querying any node on the network via CALL statements or TRANSACTIONS
- 8. SMART CONTRACTS 101 • When validating a state change on the smart contract, every node in the network computes indipendently the result • Decentralized computing • Non Censorable • 100% uptime • Tamper-evident, therefore extremely difficult to corrupt
- 9. SETTING UP A NODE HOW TO SET UP AN ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN DIFFERENT KINDS OF NODES
- 10. SETTING UP A NODE • Light node • Full node • Archival node
- 11. FULL NODE • Standard node • Full blockchain sync • Needs a more than average grade machine to sync properly
- 12. LIGHT NODE • Lightweight version of the full node • Syncs only block headers, therefore needs a full node to check and verify txs • Can run on almost every device, minimal space requirements
- 13. ARCHIVAL NODE • Big Scary Node ~ Vitalik Buterin • Downloads all the intermediate states of the blockchain • Huge requirements (2TB+ SSD and high computation power)
- 14. SUPER QUICK DEMO
- 15. THE SOLIDITY LANGUAGE INTRODUCTION TO SMART CONTRACTS PROGRAMMING
- 16. SOLIDITY • Language to build smart contracts • JS-like syntax • Most popular solution
- 17. SOLIDITY Solidity supports a lot of native types, like addresses, uints, strings, arrays, structs and fixed-size bytes arrays. Supports for constructs to gather blockchain data: block, tx, msg Supports multiple inheritance
- 18. BLOCK Contains useful data like: • timestamp • number (or height) • coinbase • difficulty • gas limit
- 19. TRANSACTION (TX) Contains current transaction data, like: • origin • gas price
- 20. MESSAGE (MSG) Contains specific data of the transaction or the call: • sender • Value in wei • Additional custom metadata
- 21. OTHER SOLIDITY GLOBALS Time units : (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, now) Ether units: • wei = 1 • szabo = 10^12 • finney = 10^15 • ether = 10^18
- 22. HANDLING ERRORS Solidity has specific functions to handle failure cases: • throw • assert • require
- 23. ADDITIONAL GOTCHAS • Memory VS Storage variable location • Stack is limited !!! • Every transaction has a cost • Only tx mutates the contract state (and append to the blockchain) • Call operations (read) are free • Big Contract = Bigger deploy costs
- 24. JUST AN EXAMPLE
- 26. OPENZEPPELIN A framework by the zeppelin foundation, it contains smart contracts which have already been audited by professionals and implement most used use cases (e.g. Tokens, Crowdsales, etc…) https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-solidity
- 27. ERC20 TOKEN WITH ZEPPELIN
- 28. BREAK TIME
- 30. THE TRUFFLE SUITE A complete set of frameworks to develop smart contracts • Truffle • Ganache • Smart Contracts Package Manager (EthPM)
- 31. TRUFFLE It is used to develop smart contracts thanks to an easy to use CLI interface You just develop your contracts and use it to compile, migrate and test. Based on Web3JS and Javascript ES6
- 32. GANACHE A private Ethereum network deployed on your local machine, it has all the settings customizable via a beautiful UI
- 33. ETHEREUM PACKAGE MANAGER (ETHPM) • Like npm but on the Ethereum blockchain • Contains a lot of Solidity prebuilt contract packages
- 34. DEMO TIME
- 35. CONCLUSIONS
- 36. THANK YOU