Hi Friend,
Welcome to the latest edition of State Change, our Ethereum developer newsletter. We hope you’re staying safe out there during these tumultuous times and finding ways to stay connected with family, friends, and the larger Ethereum community.
This crisis has been a profound stress-test for our global infrastructure, and no person, organization, or market has been left untouched, crypto included. However, many of us across the ecosystem see this as an inflection point and an opportunity to usher in new kinds of systems that are more resilient, transparent, and trustworthy. In that spirit, in addition to our normal updates, we’ve compiled a bunch of resources below from livestreams to virtual hackathons to mobilize the community and help you level up as an Ethereum developer. We hope you’ll take this opportunity to continue building the decentralized future. Power truly is in numbers.
Dev Resources
#ConsenSysLive Developer Livestreams: The ConsenSys Academy team kicked off biweekly livestreams for developers and crypto-curious who want to dive into the code, tools, products, and ideas driving innovation in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Developers Empowering Communities: We will explore the mechanics of creating social tokens as well as when and how they are used with the MetaMask team, Roll, and artist/creator Laurel Driskell. Join us live on April 23rd.
State and Payment: Developers from Infura and Uniswap will walk you through best practices of developing responsive React frontends that take advantage of real-time Ethereum data and transactions, using the combination of Javascript, web3-react, and Infura. Uniswap's frontend team will also share code examples and recent lessons.
Virtual Hackathons. There is no better time to participate in virtual hackathons than right now. You can find a full list of upcoming hackathons with links to the registration pages in our free mini-course, Blockchain Hackathon Preparation for Developers. If you complete the course, we’ll automatically enroll you in a sneak peek of our Blockchain Developer Program, so you can test drive the first half of our full-stack training and pick up Ethereum development skills.
ConsenSys Health's Stop COVID-19 Hackathon: ConsenSys Health, Gitcoin, and One Million Developers have partnered up to launch a Web3 hackathon to mobilize blockchain technologists and healthcare experts around the COVID-19 crisis. Guest judges will include Vitalik Buterin, Joe Lubin, Brian Behlendorf, and others.
- The Q1 2020 Ethereum DeFi Report: A review and analysis of DeFi protocols and performance in Q1 2020, including the $1B milestone of USD value locked in DeFi and the Black Thursday market events.
Product Updates
Infura:
Infura has been publishing a series of blog posts to help you understand how to use Infura in your Dapps. Here’s the latest from the team:
- How to Set Up and Run an Ethereum Node: In this on-demand webinar, you'll learn how to spin up your own node, understand use cases for different types of nodes, what third party providers are, and when to use hybrid infrastructure.
MythX:
MythX Demo Series: Four short MythX demo videos showing users how to use MythX and custom MythX Security Services. This short series will help you set up and use MythX within your developer workflow.
PegaSys:
Private Networks on Ethereum: In this webinar on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2:00pm ET, you will learn:
- Where private networks and Ethereum mainnet collide
- The latest privacy features in Hyperledger Besu
- How privacy groups work and why to use them
- A demo of how to use privacy groups
Hyperledger Besu Training Essentials has been updated for Hyperledger Besu v1.4.
PegaSys Tutorials Playlist: Technical deep dives on network upgrades, private transactions, fast sync vs. full sync, and more with the protocol experts from PegaSys.
What We're Reading
Decentralization ≠ Disintermediation: Our friends at Liquality discuss how blockchain developers can not hold a user’s private keys but still maintain centralized power. Interesting in light of Vitalik Buterin's statement for a “trustless, serverless … ETH <-> BTC exchange.”
Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make and Vim: Vladimir Keleshev shows how to write a beautiful book (available in PUB and PDF) using Markdown, Draw.io, and other open-source developer tools. A random but cool project!
The History of the URL: The excellent Cloudfare blog details the development of the Uniform Resource Locator, which we know as the URL. Going back to the early days of the internet, it’s a great history, tracing the development of this now-commonplace phenomenon.
If Programming Languages Had Slogans: Title says it all.
Stay safe out there and BUIDL on.