Blockchain Engineer

Path to a self-taught blockchain engineer.

This repo focuses on Ethereum Solidity development.

Overview of crypto

This section provides a basic overview of the Blockchain space.

• Blockchain visualization
• List of crypto projects TLDRs
• Subscribe to these subreddits, and browse top posts:
  • r/ethereum
  • r/solidity
  • r/cryptocurrency

Recommended curriculum

• Quick way to learn Solidity syntax
• Truffle pet shop
• Truffle: The leading framework for Solidity development.
• Ganache: Local implementation of the Ethereum blockchain that is well integrated with Truffle.
• zeppelin-solidity: Excellent collection of contract implementations. This library should be used rather than implementing functionality yourself whenever possible.

Ethereum

Tutorials

• Quick way to learn Solidity syntax
• Crypto Zombies
• Truffle pet shop
• Solidity by example
• Interactions between contracts
• Debugging a smart contract

Read the Docs

Eventually you should find the time to skim through Read the Docs in its entirety. Important topics include:

• Types
• Style guide

Debugging

• Truffle debugging tutorial

Tools

• Truffle: The leading framework for Solidity development.
• Ganache: Local implementation of the Ethereum blockchain that is well integrated with Truffle.
• Etherscan: Ethereum block explorer.
• truffle-flattener: Tool for resolving imports, useful for Etherscan code verification.
• Solidity REPL: Command line REPL for quick one-off tests.
• Vim syntax highlighter
• Vim compiler plugin
• Solidity graph generator: Graph generator for Solidity contracts.

Libraries

• zeppelin-solidity: Excellent collection of contract implementations. This library should be used rather than implementing functionality yourself whenever possible.
• cryptofin-solidity
• solidity-stringutils

Resources

• ERC20 specification
• Most discussed EIPs
• awesome-solidity: List of resources.
• Opcode gas costs
• Opcodes reference
• Useful snippets

Intermediate Readings

• Contracts misconception

• Burning
• https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/37221/if-someone-found-a-private-key-to-0x0-would-they-be-able-to-access-all-the-toke

Advanced Readings

• OpCodes
• 256-bit architecture explained

Cryptography Readings

• https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

Other lists

Job boards

• Upwork

Venture

• Ethereum Community Fund
• Stable Fund
• Blockstack
• Rough Draft Ventures
• Dash Treasury
• Stellar Partnership Grant Program