A technique to tackle the threats to cryptocurrency.
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Metrics, Platforms, Emulators, and TestNets for Ethereum
lamia Chaari Fourati (Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax, Tunisia), Taher Layeb (Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax, Tunisia), Achraf Haddaji (ENET'COM, Tunisia), Samiha Ayed (University of Technology of Troyes, France), and Wiem Bekri (ENET'COM, Tunisia)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5839-3.ch001
Abstract
Blockchain technology is considered the most relevant technology after the internet that revolutionizes many application domains. The first generation of BC technology, BC 1.0, is used for cryptocurrency purposes; the second generation, BC 2.0, as represented by Ethereum, is an open and decentralized platform empowering the running of decentralized applications (DApps) on top of BC as a new computing paradigm. Ethereum as a BC 2.0 leader has a large development community. Its open-source feature leads to the development of several emulation tools, simulators, TestNets, and security verification tools dedicated to Ethereum-based system performance analysis. Making an adequate decision regarding the choice of the most appropriate Ethereum tool responding to the requirement of a specific system or application still requires more investigation from researchers. In this regard, this chapter presents the characteristics of the most-used Ethereum simulators, emulators, and TestNets and provides comparative studies between Ethereum simulators, TestNets, and security verification tools.