Adventures on the Ethereum Blockchain

2. Who am I? - Senior Engineer at Zoom.ai - Google Developer Expert - Android, Node.js, early adopter - Entrepreneur
3. What this talk is about - Understanding what DApps are - Learning how to build DApps - Exploring the Web 3.0 stack
4. What this talk is NOT about - ICO’s - Getting rich quick - Ethereum price predictions
5. What is a DApp - Decentralized Applications - No single point of control - Existed for decades - Bittorrent, Tor, BitMessage - Combination of 3 technologies (Smart Contracts, Whisper, IPFS)
6. DApp
7. What is a DApp - “Unkillable” - DApps let you interact with the Blockchain using using Smart Contracts
8. What are Smart Contracts - Code that runs in a VM on a specific Blockchain - https://remix.ethereum.org/
9. Smart Contract
10. Smart Contract
11. Smart Contract
12. Smart Contract
13. What are Smart Contracts - On Ethereum, Smart Contracts are written in Solidity - Smart Contracts are immutable - A new programming paradigm
14. What do I do with a Smart Contract? - A compiled Smart Contract is worthless. - You have to deploy it
15. Smart Contract
16. How do I connect to a Smart Contract? - Web3! - Web3 is a JS API that connects to a local Node instance
17. DApp
18. Smart Contract
19. Let’s stop there! - This just seems like too much work. And we haven’t even scratched the surface - There has to be a better way
20. Ethereum Dev Frameworks - https://truffleframework.com/ - https://embark.status.im/
21. DEMO
22. Truffle https://truffleframework.com/ - Easy to get started - “Boxes” for Angular, React - Just like building a normal web app, but integrating with Blockchain
23. Embark https://embark.status.im/ - Built by popular DApp - Status.im - New but excellent support for Whisper and IPFS
24. Whisper - Pub/Sub style messaging system - Plausible deniability
25. IPFS https://ipfs.io/ - Redundant distributed web - Hosted platform for HTML/CSS - Deploy Truffle or Embark apps on the platform for pure decentralization
26. Questions?