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A suggested learning path for blockchain development
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# Blockchain Learning Path



An opinionated learning path for getting into speed with Blockchain (specially Ethereum). This is a

work in progress, please open an issue or send a pull request to help improving it.



## Pre-requisites



Besides a programming background, this path assumes that the reader is at least a little comfortable

with:



- Public key cryptography

  1. Watch [Public Key Cryptography](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIDS_lvRv4). (Est. time: 7 minutes)

  2. Read [What is Public-key Cryptography?](https://www.globalsign.com/en/ssl-information-center/what-is-public-key-cryptography). (Est. time: 4 minutes)

- Digital signatures

  1. Read [Cryptography Digital Signitures](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cryptography/cryptography_digital_signatures.htm). (Est. time: 10 minutes)

  2. Watch [What are Digital Signatures and How Do They Work?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4_RBb8A9Q) (Est. time: 3 minutes)

- Cryptographic hashing

  1. Watch [What is Hashing on the Blockchain?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGSB9zoSx70) (Est. time: 5 minutes)

  2. Read [What is Hashing in Blockchain?](https://learn.bybit.com/blockchain/what-is-hashing-in-blockchain/). (Est. time: 9 minutes)



## Blockchain



1. Read [Blockchain Explained](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp). (Est.time: 26 minutes)

2. Read [What is Blockchain?](https://www.scaler.com/topics/what-is-blockchain/). (Est.time: 13 minutes)

3. Watch [Blockchain - A visual demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_160oMzblY8). (Est. time: 18 minutes)



## Bitcoin



1. Read [How the Bitcoin protocol actually works](http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/). (Est. time: 45 minutes)

2. Watch [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4) (lighter than the previous

   article but useful to solidify your knowledge). (Est. time: 26 minutes)



## Ethereum



#### Theory



1. Read [How does Ethereum work, anyway?](https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/how-does-ethereum-work-anyway-22d1df506369) (Est. time: 38 minutes)

2. Read [this article](https://blog.openzeppelin.com/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-smart-contracts-in-ethereum-848f08001f05)

   on smart contracts development. (Est. time: 15 minutes)

3. Learn about hardhat [Hardhat Documentation](https://hardhat.org/getting-started/)

4. Read the [Web3 Documentation](https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/1.0/) / [Ethers Documentation](https://docs.ethers.io/v5/)

5. Book [Mastering Ethereum](https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook)

6. Set of learning resources from [ethereum.org](https://ethereum.org/en/learn/)



#### Practice



1. Learn Ethereum development by making a [Zombie Game](https://cryptozombies.io/) (Est. time: 8 hs)

2. Read and make and example: [Pet shop tutorial](https://www.trufflesuite.com/tutorial)

3. [Time-locked Wallets: An Introduction to Ethereum Smart Contracts](https://www.toptal.com/ethereum-smart-contract/time-locked-wallet-truffle-tutorial)

4. [The Ultimate ENS and ĐApp Tutorial](https://www.toptal.com/ethereum/ethereum-name-service-dapp-tutorial)

5. [Ultimate Introduction to Ethereum Ðapp Development](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV1JDFUtrXpFh85G-Ddyy2kLSafaB9biQ) (Est. time: 4 hs)

6. [Ethernaut](https://ethernaut.zeppelin.solutions/) is a Web3/Solidity based wargame for those interested in learning ethereum



## Courses



1. Do this course [Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide](https://www.udemy.com/ethereum-and-solidity-the-complete-developers-guide/) (Est. time: 24 hs)

2. Free tutorial [Learning Solidity](https://github.com/willitscale/learning-solidity)

3. [Introduction to Smart Contract Development with Solidity](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV1JDFUtrXpGvu8QHL9b78WYNSJsYNZsb) (Est. time: 2 hs)

4. FreeCodeCamp course [Learn Blockchain, Solidity, and Full Stack Web3 Development with JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMwXuJrbJQ) (32 hours)



## Concepts



0. [Crypto vocabulary](https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/crypto-vocabulary-expanded-76131d26537b)

1. [Blockchain Oracles, Explained](https://cointelegraph.com/explained/blockchain-oracles-explained) (Est. time: 4 minutes)

2. [ABI](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Contract-ABI) (Est. time: 15 minutes)

3. [Keccak256](https://www.slideshare.net/RajeevVerma14/keccakpptx) (Est. time: 15 minutes)

4. [Random numbers](https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/191/how-can-i-securely-generate-a-random-number-in-my-smart-contract) (Est. time: 5 minutes)

5. [Velocity of Tokens](https://medium.com/newtown-partners/velocity-of-tokens-26b313303b77) (Est. time: 9 minutes)

6. [Gas](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/gas/) (Est. time: 11-14 minutes)

7. [Weth](https://weth.io/)

8. Decentralized Finance (DeFi):

   - [Intro to DeFi](https://ethereum.org/en/defi/) - Introduction to DeFi and its main ideas.

   - [Awesome Decentralized Finance](https://github.com/ong/awesome-decentralized-finance)

   - [DeFi Prime](https://defiprime.com) - Curated directory of DeFi projects.

9. [Smart Contracts](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smart-contracts.asp)

## Under the hood



1. [Inside an Ethereum transaction](https://medium.com/@codetractio/inside-an-ethereum-transaction-fa94ffca912f)

2. [Diving Into the Ethereum VM](https://blog.qtum.org/diving-into-the-ethereum-vm-6e8d5d2f3c30)



## Best Practices



- [Consensys best practices](https://consensys.github.io/smart-contract-best-practices/) - This document provides a baseline knowledge of security considerations for intermediate Solidity programmers. It is maintained by ConsenSys Diligence, and the broader Ethereum community.

- [Solidity Patterns](https://github.com/fravoll/solidity-patterns) - A compilation of patterns and best practices.



## Libraries



- [dapp-bin](https://github.com/ethereum/dapp-bin) - Ethereum repo providing implementations for many common data structures and utilities in Solidity, Serpent and LLL.

- [Solidity Collections](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Solidity-Collections) - Collections of code snippets and utility libraries.

- [OpenZeppelin](https://openzeppelin.org/) - Framework to build secure smart contracts.



## Examples



- [Solidity By Example](http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/solidity-by-example.html) - Contract examples from the official docs.



## Ethereum vs. Bitcoin



- [Some key differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum](https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/031416/bitcoin-vs-ethereum-driven-different-purposes.asp) - Features and differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum.



## Substrate



- [Initiate a Forkless Runtime Upgrade](https://docs.substrate.io/tutorials/v3/forkless-upgrades#schedule-an-upgrade) - Forkless Runtime Upgrade useful for initial setups and parachains' CI/CD pipelines.



## Smart Contract Standards



#### The Ethereum Request for Comment repository



- [ERCs](https://eips.ethereum.org/erc) - Ethereum Improvement Proposals



#### Tokens



- [ERC-20](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-20) - Token contract for fungible assets.

- [ERC-721](https://github.com/ethereum/eips/issues/721) - Token standard for non-fungible assets.

- [ERC-1155](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1155) - Multi Token Standard that aims to take the best from previous standards to create a fungibility-agnostic and gas-efficient token contract.

- [ERC-918](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-918) - Mineable Token Standard.



#### Others



- [ERC-165](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-165) - Creates a standard method to publish and detect what interfaces a smart contract implements.

- [ERC-725](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-725) - A standard interface for a simple proxy account.

- [ERC-173](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-173) - A standard interface for ownership of contracts.



## Toolbox



List of tools curated by Protofire team to better apply best practices to the Protocol and DApps development projects.



#### General



- [eth-cli](https://github.com/protofire/eth-cli) - CLI tools.

- [REPL](https://github.com/raineorshine/solidity-repl) - Solidity REPL.

- [Remix](https://remix.ethereum.org/) - Online realtime compiler and runtime.



#### Audit



- [Static and dynamic code analysis](https://consensys.github.io/smart-contract-best-practices/security-tools/static-and-dynamic-analysis/)



#### Utility



- [solhint](https://github.com/protofire/solhint) - Solidity linter that provides security, style guide and best practice rules for smart contract validation.

- [solium](https://github.com/duaraghav8/Solium) - Linter to identify and fix style & security issues in Solidity smart contracts.

- [sol-tester](https://github.com/androlo/sol-tester) - Utilities for building, linking and testing contracts using go-ethereum and the simulated chain.

- [solidity-coverage](https://github.com/sc-forks/solidity-coverage) - Code coverage tool.

- [TypeChain](https://github.com/ethereum-ts/TypeChain) - TypeScript bindings for Ethereum Smart Contracts.



## Miscellaneous



#### Newsletters



- [Week in Ethereum News](https://www.weekinethereumnews.com/) - Ethereum news and links, layer 1, layer 2, client releases, stuff for developers, interviews, podcasts, videos, talks, etc

- [Reddit: /r/ethereum/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/) - Reddit about next-generation platform for decentralised applications.

- [Reddit: /r/ethdev](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev) - Reddit about ethereum-related dev talk: Contracts, DApps, Wallets, Clients, Infrastructure, Tooling, UIs, Patterns, and others.

- [Ethereum Research](http://ethresear.ch/) - Civilized discussion furthering Ethereum research



#### Talks



- [Understanding Blockchain function](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RplnSVTzvnU) - Say hello to the decentralized economy. (Est. time: 15 minutes)



#### Videos



- [DeFi from Finematics](https://www.youtube.com/c/Finematics/videos) - Educational videos on DeFi (Decentralized Finance).