The hands-on exercises and practical examples in the guide helps to get a better understanding in Hedera's core services. The focus on each core chapter is to get a deeper understanding and the its usage in decentralized applications Key Features Understand the Hedera DLT ecosystem, its key concepts and implementation Implement smart contracts, wallets, and decentralized applications(DApps) using Hedera Learn how to develop dApps like NFT minting platforms and p2p lending platforms Book DescriptionHedera is a fully open source, proof-of-stake, public network and governing body for building and deploying decentralized applications. This book serves as a practical guide to developing a full-fledged decentralized application with Hedera Hashgraph This book will walk you through the core concepts and key features of Hedera. You will understand the process of Hedera’s consensus algorithm and setting up your Hedera development environment. As you steadily progress, you'll go on to setting up and managing a wallet account. This will further help you to create, update, delete, and submit transactions to the Hedera Network. You'll also learn about the concepts of tokenization, Hedera token service, and Hedera Decentralised file storage service. As you explore later chapters, you'll learn to develop and deploy solidity smart contracts and also interact with the Hedera blockchain. You will then move on to learning the concepts of Cryptographic signatures, Hash functions, Sharding, and their implementation. Lastly, you'll understand the concepts of DeFi and its use cases By the end of this book, you will learn to launch high-throughput and Low latency dApps built on the Hedera Hashgraph networkWhat you will learn To establish the identity as a Hedera developer. Helps to gain in-depth knowledge in advanced Hedera concepts to achieve industry-ready skills. Increase the chance of cracking the Hedera Certification programs. Who this book is forThis book is for blockchain developers and IT professionals who aspire to learn about Hedera DLT and develop a Hedera dApp. The reader should have a basic understanding of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Beginner-level programming experience in Javascript can be helpful but not a necessity