Chapter 1 - Introduction to Blockchain Technology

• Origin of Blockchain - Money, Ledgers and Bitcoin
• Blockchain Basics
• Intro to Cryptography and Consensus
• All about Ethereum and layer-1 solutions
• Node Software
• Wallet, Contracts and Transactions

Chapter 2 - Blockchain Cryptography and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

• Digital signatures and cryptographic hash functions
• Merkle trees and block headers
• Consensus Algorithms - Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS)
• Solidity Syntax, development Tools and basic Testing
• Writing tests with Hardhat and Waffle, setup fixtures
• Mocking contracts, formal verification, debugging
• OpenZeppelin, ownership, upgradeability, pausing, mainnet forking

Chapter 3 - Building React dApps

• ‍Indexing blockchain data with subgraphs
• React dApps
• Connecting to metamask
• Alerting and Scripting

Chapter 4 - Ethereum Tokens, NFTs and DeFi

• Token standards
• Approving and transferring
• Loss of coin and token callbacks
• Stablecoins
• Decentralized Exchanges
• Liquidity providers
• Staking, lending and price oracles

Capstone Project : Build an end-to-end dApp