# Introduction

I've been working in [Antelope](https://antelope.io/) (former EOSIO) blockchain space since the EOS mainnet launch. During this time, I met a great number of wonderful people, and we have run some interesting projects together. As a software engineer and an open source enthusiast, I've always tried to share as much knowledge as possible, and this has led to a number of publications in [my blog](https://cc32d9.medium.com/) and on [GitHub](https://github.com/cc32d9).

In this book, I will try to address most common questions asked in the [Antelope Developers](https://t.me/antelopedevs) chat and give my recommendations on designing the smart contracts and blockchain applications. 

While talking to many software developers, I found out that the most missing thing in Antelope/EOSIO is the understanding of the big picture. Basically, how stuff works. I will try to cover that as much as possible as this topic is of interest on all levels of blockchain businesses: business owners, software architects, developers, and server administrators.

This is the first edition of the book. Additional topics to be covered in the second edition are listed [on GitHub](https://github.com/cc32d9/antelope-dev-book/issues/1).

This work is sponsored by a [Pomelo grant](https://pomelo.io/grants/cookbook) and [direct grant from the ENF](https://github.com/eosnetworkfoundation/grant-framework/blob/main/applications/dev_book.md).

Copyright (c) 2022 `cc32d9@gmail.com` 

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