Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood

Mastering Ethereum by Andreas Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood (Ethereum's co-founder) is the authoritative technical guide to the Ethereum platform. The book covers Ethereum's architecture from the ground up, including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), account model, gas mechanism, and consensus protocol. It provides comprehensive coverage of smart contract development in Solidity, including security patterns, common vulnerabilities (reentrancy, integer overflow, access control), and best practices for writing safe, auditable code. Later chapters cover decentralized application (DApp) architecture, token standards (ERC-20, ERC-721), oracles, layer-2 scaling solutions, and development frameworks like Truffle and Hardhat. Written by the same author as Mastering Bitcoin, it maintains the same rigorous yet accessible style that made that book the standard reference for Bitcoin development.