Blockchain Hands-on Workshop

Understanding blockchain technology and terminology to determine its potential value and create a decentralized application.

Conversations about blockchain seem to be more commonplace every day, but many still lack an understanding of the technology.

This training is designed to provide an overview of blockchain terminology and technology to help learners gain the practical experience necessary to create a decentralized application. By following a consistent example throughout the training, all relevant tools and frameworks to create an application will be explored along with practical, time-saving tips.

Contents

Basics

• Blockchain and cryptography.
• Understanding a smart contract.
• Differences and overview of current Blockchain projects.

Create your own projects

• The Ethereum project in detail.
• Creating smart contracts in Solidity with the IDE remix.
• Using the Truffle framework.
• Creating a frontend for smart contracts.

Quality Assurance for Decentralized Applications

• What are the differences compared to conventional web applications
• Testing smart contracts and decentralized applications.
• Linting and static analysis tools for smart contracts.
• Security practices for smart contracts.

Design patterns, standards and protocols

• Design patterns for smart contracts.
• ERC standards and ERC20/ERC721 tokens.
• Game theory and token economics.
• Analysis of existing token models.
• Complementary technologies such as IPFS or zero-knowledge proofs.
• Raiding, plasma and the future of Ethereum.

Target audience

• Software architects
• Software developers

Prerequisites

None required

Further information

• Copies of any relevant standards must be provided by the learner.
• You will need a computer with Chrome or Firefox installed to complete the exercises