Are you looking to start developing on EOS blockchain and become an EOS developer? Congratulations, you have landed at the right place. We created this guide for newbies and it will help you make your first steps in EOS blockchain development before moving to more advanced programming later in the series.

We recently revamped completely this guide to meet the highest standards, best practices and to use the latest version of EOSIO protocol.

For the updated guide check “First steps in EOS Blockchain Development” 2020 Edition.

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Last year was really epic for the blockchain startups. Thanks to the Ethereum Blockchain and the opportunities it gave to the developers to create decentralized applications a lot of blockchain companies had been born.

Ethereum started the spark of the blockchain development when it introduced the Solidity language and the Smart Contracts – the building blocks for decentralized applications. However, Ethereum was just the beginning. The blockchain technology is developing at a rapid pace and now a new and most powerful one is on the way. It’s time to introduce the EOS Blockchain.

EOS is aiming to become the first decentralized operating system which can support industrial-scale decentralized applications. It introduces a new blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of dApps. It’s achieved by creating an operating system-like construct upon which applications can be built.

The EOSIO software provides accounts, authentication, databases, asynchronous communication, and the scheduling of applications across many of CPU cores or clusters. The resulting technology is a blockchain architecture that may ultimately scale to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees, and allows for quick and easy deployment and maintenance of decentralized applications, in the context of a governed blockchain.

Surely, EOS set the level very high compared to its siblings!

EOS Blockchain Development

In order to help the EOS Blockchain Development community, our development team at Infinite X Labs decided to run a number of tutorials dedicated to EOS Development. In this tutorial, we’ll explore the steps which will help you to set up your environment and run your first testnet node. We will create an account and we will deploy a sample smart contract to the EOS Blockchain so we can interact with it...