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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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Based on what we covered in Chapter 2, Getting Started with DeFi Application Development, React.js provides the tools for building the frontend of the application, including the UI framework, state management, and URL path routing. For this chapter, we will need the following two packages specific to DeFi application development:

  • Ethers.js (https://ethers.org/) is a simple and compact library for interacting with the EVM-based blockchain and its ecosystem. The main purpose of using this library in this book is to interact with smart contracts within frontend code.
  • web3-react (https://github.com/Uniswap/web3-react) is a simple and powerful framework for building EVM-based decentralized applications using React. Although it does have some overlaps with ethers.js, it has its own advantages in managing DeFi wallets by providing various wallet connectors for React applications.

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web3-react is a widely used library for wallet integration used...

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Samuel Zhou

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.
Read more about Samuel Zhou