Week 1

Best for students who are interested in building apps later in week 3, but doesn't have much prior experience with Ethereum. We'll show you how some of the most popular apps work and their implementation.

Note: Eth price is really high right now, so the gas cost is pretty high too. For the quests below, if you do any of them on a testnet, it works too.

Ethereum networks - with a list of testnets and links to faucets

Learning goals:

• Read instructions and watch videos from reading list and complete the quests, to get a hands on feeling of how Ethereum Apps work;
• Learn about the mechanics of the apps, understand why they are designed that way;
• Look at the smart contracts, e.g. see how ERC20/ERC721 are implemented, how factory contract, contract upgrade works in production.

Topic 1: ERC-20

Readings

ERC-20 token standard

ERC-20 tutorial on ethereum.org with Web3.py example

ERC-20 ConsenSys implementation

ERC-20 OpenZeppelin implementation

Some examples of ERC-20 tokens:

UNI (Uniswap)