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8 Jun 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Allen Walters
Over $1,000,000,000 in the treasury of the Tezos Foundation that can be spent on development and ecosystem growth. That is a hell of a kick-start for a blockchain project. But no matter the size of this treasury, eventually it might run out. Running...
1 Jun 2020 2 minute read 11 comments Allen Walters
For starters, let's get a misconception out of the way: Michelson, (the programming language introduced by L.M Goodman in the Tezos Whitepaper in 2014) is not the only smartcontract language available on Tezos. About Michelson: "The Tezos blockchain...
30 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Kluma
York University in Canada will launch two new educational programs on blockchain from September to meet the growing demand for specialists in this field.York University, located in Toronto, announced the opening of two new educational programs on blo...
14 May 2020 3 minute read 10 comments banano
The cryptocurrency BANANO is always good for surprise news and tech innovation, and it’s often underestimated since many think it’s ‘just another meme coin’. Key to its growing success is next-generation tech paired with crypto education, easy and in...
2 May 2020 9 minute read 3 comments alexroan
Version 3 of OpenZeppelin’s Smart Contracts library is out! In the latest release, they introduce a brand new method of controlling access to functions. What We Know Controlling access to certain functions is paramount to ensuring the security of sm...
1 May 2020 4 minute read 0 comments alexroan
A step-by-step guide on how to import external code into your smart contracts Where to Start Getting started in the world of smart contract development can be overwhelming. There is often a lot of assumed knowledge that’s not particularly well explai...
28 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments alexroan
Tech debt can quickly build up when building out an application from scratch. Frameworks like React and Redux provide great patterns to structure code in a modular fashion. And we live in a perfect world, so that’s all we’ll ever need! Except, of cou...
26 Apr 2020 4 minute read 14 comments alexroan
This article explains how to secure your smart contracts against reentrancy and ownership theft attacks. Prerequisites: A basic understanding of the Ethereum Blockchain and Smart Contracts. Introduction Tunnel vision, a pitfall that every developer...
26 Apr 2020 5 minute read 0 comments alexroan
This article walks through how to test Smart Contracts using Solidity and JavaScript. Prerequisites: A basic understanding of Blockchain, Ethereum and Javascript. The full working project code can be found on Github. The Importance of Software Testi...
26 Apr 2020 3 minute read 1 comment alexroan
Always use OpenZeppelin Don’t get me wrong, writing smart contracts from scratch is a great learning tool. Tasking yourself with creating an ERC20-compliant contract from start to finish is one of the best ways to gain an understanding of the logic...
