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Building Full Stack DeFi Applications

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Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634118
Pages 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samuel Zhou Samuel Zhou
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Samuel Zhou has over 15 years of software engineering experience in top high tech companies including being a blockchain developer as his hobby since 2018. In 2022, Samuel turned his enthusiasm on blockchain technology into a business by founding TiFi, which is a silicon valley based startup that builds e-Commerce platform on blockchain and brings blockchain to everyday life. Over there he has created TiFi Token that offers token rebates so people can get cash back when spending the token. Also he has built TiFi Bank which is a DeFi application that offers crypto saving, lending, trading, staking and liquidity management features. Samuel holds a Master Degree and a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science.
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to DeFi Application Development
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to DeFi 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with DeFi Application Development 4. Chapter 3: Interacting with Smart Contracts and DeFi Wallets in the Frontend 5. Part 2: Design and Implementation of a DeFi Application for Trading Cryptos
6. Chapter 4: Introduction to Decentralized Exchanges 7. Chapter 5: Building Crypto-Trading Smart Contracts 8. Chapter 6: Implementing a Liquidity Management Frontend with Web3 9. Chapter 7: Implementing a Token-Swapping Frontend with Web3 10. Chapter 8: Working with Native Tokens 11. Part 3: Building a DeFi Application for Staking and Yield Farming
12. Chapter 9: Building Smart Contracts for Staking and Farming 13. Chapter 10: Implementing a Frontend for Staking and Farming 14. Part 4: Building a Crypto Loan App for Lending and Borrowing
15. Chapter 11: An Introduction to Crypto Loans 16. Chapter 12: Implementing an Asset Pool Smart Contract for a Crypto Loan 17. Chapter 13: Implementing a Price Oracle for Crypto Loans 18. Chapter 14: Implementing the Crypto Loan Frontend with Web3 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to DeFi

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is one of the most popular topics when it comes to the cryptocurrency world. There are billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies running through various DeFi products every day. More and more cryptocurrency and blockchain projects started to build DeFi applications to expand the user communities and generate more cryptocurrency incomes.

In this chapter, we’ll introduce DeFi by explaining its main characteristics and terminologies. Then, we will cover some popular DeFi applications, and demonstrate the architecture of DeFi applications. Finally, we will discuss the vulnerable design and implementations of DeFi and their solutions. The topics that will be discussed in this chapter are essential to building DeFi applications and will help you understand how various DeFi applications work on blockchain.

By reading this chapter, you will do the following:

  • Get an overview of DeFi and understand its main concepts
  • Learn what people can do with several types of DeFi applications
  • Understand the architecture of DeFi applications
  • Discover the potential vulnerabilities in DeFi applications and their solutions
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Authors (1)

Profile icon Samuel Zhou
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Samuel Zhou has over 15 years of software engineering experience in top high tech companies including being a blockchain developer as his hobby since 2018. In 2022, Samuel turned his enthusiasm on blockchain technology into a business by founding TiFi, which is a silicon valley based startup that builds e-Commerce platform on blockchain and brings blockchain to everyday life. Over there he has created TiFi Token that offers token rebates so people can get cash back when spending the token. Also he has built TiFi Bank which is a DeFi application that offers crypto saving, lending, trading, staking and liquidity management features. Samuel holds a Master Degree and a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science.
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