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Ethereum Projects for Beginners

You're reading from  Ethereum Projects for Beginners

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537406
Pages 106 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Creating an ERC20 token


In this section, you will learn how to create an ERC20 token. We will start by setting up a new project—we are going to use the OpenZeppelin Solidity framework to create our project.

Installing OpenZepplin Solidity

OpenZeppelin is basically just a collection of smart contracts that you can import into your own smart contracts in order to speed up your development. They can also make your smart contracts much more secure from the get-go.

You can visit the OpenZeppelin GitHub page at OpenZeppelin Github:

If you have been browsing through the Truffle website—truffleframework.com—then you have probably come across Ganache. We will be using it throughout this section. Ganache is a GUI that is basically easier to navigate with than TestRPC, but while doing all the same things as TestRPC. You can download it for Windows or any other OS if you go to Ganache's GitHub page at Ganache GitHub.

Note

The ethereumjs-testrpc has been deprecated and it has been renamed to ganache-cli. For...

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