Content Suggestion List

[gakonst]

Let's use this issue to track all useful content types, so we don't end up with very fragmented information:

How others have been teaching

• https://github.com/alcueca/solidity-mentorship/
• https://jamesbachini.com/blockchain-developer/

Solidity Best Practices

• https://github.com/Rari-Capital/solcurity / https://github.com/Rari-Capital/solcurity/issues/1
• https://github.com/Rari-Capital/golf-course/tree/some-tips-to-start
• Gas optimizations: https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-write-smart-contracts-that-optimize-gas-spent-on-ethereum-30b5e9c5db85
• Smart contract security: https://betterprogramming.pub/the-encyclopedia-of-smart-contract-attacks-vulnerabilities-dfc1129fdaac

EVM Internals

• https://programtheblockchain.com/posts/2018/03/09/understanding-ethereum-smart-contract-storage/
• https://blog.qtum.org/diving-into-the-ethereum-vm-6e8d5d2f3c30
• https://medium.com/@hayeah/diving-into-the-ethereum-vm-part-2-storage-layout-bc5349cb11b7
• https://medium.com/@hayeah/diving-into-the-ethereum-vm-the-hidden-costs-of-arrays-28e119f04a9b
• https://medium.com/@hayeah/how-to-decipher-a-smart-contract-method-call-8ee980311603
• https://takenobu-hs.github.io/downloads/ethereum_evm_illustrated.pdf
• https://ethdebug.github.io/solidity-data-representation/

Topic Ideas

• Recreating some famous hacks/bugs to demonstrate exploitable code and what to avoid
• Reliable sources of libraries and audited code OpenZeppelin etc.
• Design patterns
• Quirks and gotchas with Solidity compiler
• Hardhat vs Truffle
• IDE Plugins and custom deployment scripts
• How EVM works
• Layer 2 technologies
• Best practices for storing on chain vs off chain data
• Gas optimisation tips
• MEV and flashbots
• Useful code snippets
• Oracles and Uni twap
• Swaps and UniV2 vs V3 concentrated liquidity
• Connecting lego bricks to build yield farming vaults
• Creating custom and bootlegged interfaces
• Unit testing
• Fuzzing and linters
• Community Hackathons, Meetups, EthGlobal etc.

[rencryptofish]

maybe a chapter on parsing events / event emitting (https://codeburst.io/deep-dive-into-ethereum-logs-a8d2047c7371)

traces/filters could be useful too (https://github.com/flashbots/mev-inspect-py/blob/main/mev_inspect/classifiers/specs/)

[odyslam]

on EVM:

• https://github.com/CoinCulture/evm-tools/blob/master/analysis/guide.md
• https://hackmd.io/@cupidhack/Hk6SKZGCu

[0xNazgul]

more on evm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxL_1AfV7N4