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Introductions
An introduction to blockchain and Ethereum
An introduction to cryptocurrency and Ether
An introduction to decentralized applications
An introduction to the Ethereum stack
How the web3 world of development is different
Using Ethereum with familiar languages
Doge using dapps
Fundamentals
Contracts or people on the network
The way Ethereum state changes
Batches of transactions added to the blockchain
The Ethereum virtual machine (EVM)
The computer that processes transactions
Ether needed to power transactions
How blocks and transactions are verified in the network
An overview of Mainnet and the test networks
How new blocks are created and consensus was reached using proof-of-work
Information on Ethereum's mining algorithms
The stack
The logic behind dapps – self-executing agreements
Tools for helping speed up development
Using JavaScript to interact with smart contracts
Using libraries to interact with smart contracts
Your portal to Ethereum data
Security measures to consider during development of smart contracts
How to handle dapp storage
IDEs that are suitable for dapp development
Advanced
An overview of accepted token standards
Maximal extractable value (MEV)
An introduction to maximal extractable value (MEV)
Getting off-chain data into your smart contracts
Solutions for faster transactions
Introduction to the Ethereum networking layer
Introduction to the data structures and encoding schema used in the Ethereum stack