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.
This repository contains the draft of the book, currently in progress, scheduled for publication in Q4'2018 by O'Reilly Media. The publication date has been delayed, unfortunately, due to some personal issues. Expect to see content developed and pushed here in Q1 and Q2 2018.
The current status of the book is "outline". Chapters are not clearly defined or organized yet. Snippets and outlines of various topics are being developed and comments are very welcome!
Note: the order or structure of these snippets is in constant flux.
Here's what is available now (# bars represent word count x 500):
- Preface ###
- Glossary (pending PR from homestead-guide)
- What is Ethereum ##
- Introduction ###
- Ethereum Clients ######
- Ethereum Testnets #
- Keys and Addresses #############
- Wallets ###########
- Transactions #
- Smart Contracts #
- Tokens #
- Accounting & Gas #
- EVM #
- Development Tools and Frameworks #
- Decentralized Applications (Dapps) #
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This book is developed collaboratively and openly, here on Github. We accept comments, contributions and corrections from all.
To chat with the authors and editors:
To contribute, see the detailed Contributing Guide.
The book's source code, found in this repository, is kept synchronized with the print and ebook editions.
The develop branch, containing the most recent changes you see here is the in-progress drafting of Mastering Ethereum.
Mastering Ethereum by The Ethereum Book LLC and Gavin Wood is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
It is expected that the book will be released under a more permissive CC-BY-SA license within a year of publication.