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It’s bull season again on the blockchain. Green candles are in the air, hype is on the timeline, and the screams of dying short sellers make sweet music in your ears. This post is for those who are participating in the…
Any programming work you do is done in the context of a development environment or framework. This consists of the tooling you need to compile, run, test, and finally deploy your code. Developing Ethereum smart contracts is the…
Let’s face it, the longer you survive in crypto the bigger your threat profile gets. Not only has my crypto bag been growing, but I’m now a DeFi developer, and have a much larger public presence. Crypto thieves have been growing…
There have recently been two high-profile cases of protocols recovering a large chunk of their stolen funds by counter-attacking the hacker which stole them. Platypus Finance was hit by a bungled attack that left funds locked in…
I leveled up my smart contract security skills quite rapidly once I began learning seriously, and a lot of that was due to having a killer peer group. Serious friends and skilled mentors save you an unbelievable amount of time…
Analyzing and understanding protocols is the reason I initially picked up Solidity. Smart contracts are the laws that govern your existence on the blockchain, and you should know how to read them. Dissecting protocols is a…
The biggest hurdle in learning smart contract development is gaining awareness of patterns. What to do, and what not to do. A design decision which seems innocuous can have dire implications when it’s put on-chain. Subscribe now…
To date, I’ve done the smart contracts for five NFT launches, each with wildly varying degrees of success. I’m proud to say the contracts worked well for all the launches, irrespective of how the project turned out. Going from…
The most exciting job in crypto is the whitehat hacker. It’s you vs. the bad guys, alone in the dark forest, with billions at stake. Whitehats pull some crazy stunts, like reverse engineering an attack so they can rescue funds…
What does it mean when your bright-eyed younger cousin says he “wants to work in web3”? For that matter, what do viable employment paths even look look like for a crypto developer? I’ve slung a lot of smart contracts by this…
What are the things that could actually kill Ethereum? It doesn’t seem like it will be any of its current competitors. No, dear reader, the existential risks to Ethereum are much more subtle than Charles Hoskinson and the Haskell…
If the Merge occurs successfully, there will be a fork between the Proof-of-Stake chain and the Proof-of-Work chain. See my previous post to learn why. Subscribe now The PoW chain will probably not be long for this world, as the…