Welcome to this course: The Ultimate Ethereum and Solidity Smart Contracts Course. Ethereum and Blockchain will change the way software is built for business transactions. Most industries have been looking to leverage these new technologies to gain efficiencies and create new business models and opportunities. Ethereum is a public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract functionality. This course is your one-stop guide to blockchain and Ethereum smart contract development. Solidity is a contract-oriented language whose syntax is highly influenced by JavaScript, and is designed to compile code for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. This course will be your guide to understanding Solidity programming to build smart contracts for Ethereum and blockchain from ground-up.