The change in my schedule this week which allowed for far more focus on coding was incredibly helpful. I've finished the Learn Web3 DAO materials and at the time of this posting, I'm waiting for the last project for Road to Web3 to release.
I'm now fully set to move from the Web3 Self Study chapter of this journey, equipped with all the knowledge and fundamental skills I could need to buidl. This week was immensely helpful in providing the necessary time to wrap up materials and prep for the next chapter.
<usual_enterance> If you're new here I'm creating this blog series as I go from coding newbie to working in web3. I'm creating this to reflect on the technical and non-technical growth and to leave it behind for others who might be interested in how they can follow a similar path. </usual_enterance>
In this week's recap:
- Articles
- Alchemy's Road to Web3
- Learn Web3 DAO
- What's Next?
Articles
I was concerned about not having enough time outside of the readings for Learn Web3 DAO to maintain the usual pace here and I was correct. Here is what I did find time for though:
- Security article detailing a failure to beat the frontrunners.
- It's like the sequal to the reading above, with a happier ending!
Love & coordination at the frontier of governance: How Yearn minted $300 million
- An almost case study on Yearn and the power of DAOs
- Video on React
Alchemy's Road to Web3
There's no progress here because I've been caught up and waiting for Week 10's project to release. It's dropping later than normal, but it's supposed to come out today (the day this is being posted). I'm posting the blog now and if the project is released before the end of the day and I finish it, I'll come back and leave an edit!
Learn Web3 DAO
All wrapped up here. I've graduated from the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Tracks. This is definitely only thanks to having read the materials for the Sophomore and Junior tracks the previous week.
Sophomore Projects:
- Whitelist dApp that is capped at 10 members
- A more advanced NFT collection than that of the Freshman track
- An coin minting for the DAO project and requires an NFT from the previous project
- A simple DAO that builds on the previous projects from this track
- An exchange for the coins from the ICO project
Junior Projects:
- Created an ENS and then a site that checks your wallet and welcomes your site name if it finds an ENS associated
- Walks through creating and verifying a contract with Etherscan
- An IPFS hosted NFT project
- An intro to Ceramic project where a user can write data to a decentralized profile
- A lottery game using Chainlink VRF for random winner
- Builds on the Chainlink VRF project and creates a front end for the dApp
Senior Projects:
- Whitelist using OpenZeppelin's Merkle Proof to verify a user
- A flash loan built with Openzeppelin and Aave
- A contract with a test to demonstrate how reentrancy attacks work
- A contract that demonstrates how data storage and private variables work
- A contract with a test to demonstrate how delegate call attacks work
- A contract with a test to demonstrate how randomness attacks work
- A contract with a test to demonstrate how DOS attacks work
- A contract with a test to demonstrate how tx.origin attacks work
- A contract with a test to demonstrate how a malicious external contract can attack
- A contract with a test to demonstrate how to create an upgradeable contract works with Openzeppelin
- A contract that allows the transfer of tokens without gas fees and protects against signature replay attacks
- Creates a Flashbot capable of minting an NFT on the Goerli testnet
What's Next?
With the self-study chapter of this journey over, I am feeling very confident in the foundation of knowledge and experience built over the last 22 weeks where I started this journey knowing nothing more than a little bit of HTML and JavaScript. I've got several projects in mind, from a quick rebuild of my portfolio site using Next.js to creating the various components for WAGMI Squad like the access tokens, DAO, and website. This is the last chapter of the journey (as it will also have time devoted to the job search) and will continue until I am making a living wage in the ecosystem which may look like formal employment or going "full-time DAO".
Next week I don't want to ease into it, so it's full steam ahead on these first projects unless something big comes up!
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