DeFi-Developer-Road-Map
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DeFi Developer roadmap is a curated Developer handbook which includes a list of the best tools for DApps development, resources and references!
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DeFi handbook
A curated resource for DeFi developers
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783 links in 14 sections, with live GitHub stats.activeno commit in 2y
DeFi Developer Road Map / Translations:
Links
Basics:
- Explained
Bitcoin protocol
- Cryptography
Elliptic Curve
Computer Science
Learn the basics of
- watch this YouTube playlist
Learn DeFi In-Depth - just
- teachyourselfcrypto.com
Teach yourself crypto - visit
- pentacle.xyz
A bunch of learning resources to choose from here:
- Top 10 free Web3 courses
Basics of Smart Contract:
- this article
Read
- Truffle Documentation
Read the /
- Web3 Documentation
Read the /
Mastering Ethereum
Read Book and watch
- Solidity Smart Contract Library
Read and with
- ERCs
Ethereum Improvement Proposals
- ERC-20
Token contract for fungible assets
ERC-721
Token standard for non-fungible assets
- ERC-1155
Token standard for semi-fungible tokens
- ERC-918
Mineable Token Standard
- ERC-1363
Payable Token Standard
- ERC-4626
Tokenized Vault Standard
- ERC-165
Creates a standard method to publish and detect what interfaces a smart contract implements
- ERC-725
A standard interface for a simple proxy account
- ERC-173
A standard interface for ownership of contracts
- GIT
Learn
- GitHub
Create a few repositories on /
- Power Searching with Google
Don't be afraid of using Google,
- Linux/Docker
Get familiar with terminal ( ), configure your shell (bash, zsh, fish)
- Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide
Do this course
Learning Solidity
Free tutorial
eth-cli
CLI tools
REPL
Solidity REPL
- Remix
Online realtime compiler and runtime
gencall-cli
An interactive smart contract encoder and sender from your ABI file
- Optimize Solidity Function Name
Optimize function names to reduce costs
solc-typed-ast compiler
TypeScript package providing a normalized typed Solidity AST along with the utilities necessary to generate the AST (from Solc) and traverse/manipulate it
dApps
- VSCode
with
- vscode-solidity-lang
Solidity Semantic Highlighting for VSode
- MetaMask OpenRCP API Playground
View and Interact with MetaMasks RPC API
- Zombie Game
Learn Ethereum development by making a
- Pet shop tutorial
Read and make and example:
- Abstract Algebra
Learn !
- Ape Academy
Learn how to build smart contracts with Python and Vyper:
- Ethernaut
is a Web3/Solidity based wargame for those interested in learning ethereum
- Consensys best practices
This document provides a baseline knowledge of security considerations for intermediate Solidity programmers. It is maintained by ConsenSys Diligence, and the broader Ethereum community
Solidity Patterns
A compilation of patterns and best practices
Smart Contracts Threats DB
A compilation of the worst patterns
- ETH.build
An Educational Sandbox For Web3
- Node Guardians
Story-rich Quests with practical coding challenges
ZK-SNARKs
- zkp.science
All you should know about ZK-SNARKs
ZoKrates
A toolbox for zkSNARKS on Ethereum
The AZTEC Protocol
Confidential transactions on the Ethereum network, implementation is live on the Ethereum main-net
- Nightfall
Make any ERC-20 / ERC-721 token private - open source tools & microservices
NuCypher Network
A proxy re-encryption network to empower data privacy in decentralized systems
pyUmbral
Threshold proxy re-encryption cryptographic library
NuFHE
GPU accelerated FHE library
- StarkWare
and - StarkEx scalability engine storing state transitions on-chain
Frameworks
Akula
an implementation of Ethereum protocol ("client") written in Rust, based on architecture
- Frameworks List
Ethereum Frameworks Listing
- Hardhat
Flexible, extensible and fast Ethereum development environment
- Ape
The smart contract development tool for Pythonistas, Data Scientists, and Security Professionals
Brownie
Brownie is a Python framework for deploying, testing and interacting with Ethereum smart contracts
Embark
Framework for DApp development
- Waffle
Framework for advanced smart contract development and testing, small, flexible, fast (based on ethers.js)
Etherlime
ethers.js based framework for Dapp deployment
Parasol
[Depreciated] Agile smart contract development environment with testing, INFURA deployment, automatic contract documentation and more. It features a flexible and unopinionated design with unlimited customizability
0xcert
JavaScript framework for building decentralized applications
- OpenZeppelin SDK
OpenZeppelin SDK: A suite of tools to help you develop, compile, upgrade, deploy and interact with smart contracts
- sbt-ethereum
A tab-completey, text-based console for smart-contract interaction and development, including wallet and ABI management, ENS support, and advanced Scala integration
Cobra
A fast, flexible and simple development environment framework for Ethereum smart contract, testing and deployment on Ethereum virtual machine(EVM)
Ether Jar
Java integration library for Ethereum blockchain
Starport
A CLI tool for building sovereign IBC-enabled blockchains
Sign in with Ethereum | SIWE
Workflow to authenticate Ethereum accounts using message signing in order to establish a cookie-based web session that manages user metadata
Foundry
A smart contract development toolchain for project compilation, dependency management, testing, deployments, on-chain interactions
Solmate
These contracts have been audited but they were not developed with users in mind. They mainly seek to optimize gas and optimizations for smart contract development
- Supercool
Relayer infra for meta-transaction and account-abstraction superpowers: automate smart contract interactions, create gasless transactions, and more
- Paradigm Faucet
claim testnet ETH here
Ethnode
Run an Ethereum node (Geth or Parity) for development, as easy as
Ganache
App for test Ethereum blockchain with visual UI and logs
- Kaleido
Use Kaleido for spinning up a consortium blockchain network. Great for PoCs and testing
- Besu Private Network
Run a private network of Besu nodes in a Docker container
Orion
Component for performing private transactions by PegaSys
Artemis
Java implementation of the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain by PegaSys
Cliquebait
Simplifies integration and accepting testing of smart contract applications with docker instances that closely resemble a real blockchain network
Local Raiden
Run a local Raiden network in docker containers for demo and testing purposes
Private networks deployment scripts
Out-of-the-box deployment scripts for private PoA networks
Local Ethereum Network
Out-of-the-box deployment scripts for private PoW networks
- Ethereum on Azure
Deployment and governance of consortium Ethereum PoA networks
- Ethereum on Google Cloud
Build Ethereum network based on Proof of Work
- Infura
Ethereum API access to Ethereum networks (Mainnet, Ropsten, Rinkeby, Goerli, Kovan)
- CloudFlare Distributed Web Gateway
Provides access to the Ethereum network through the Cloudflare instead of running your own node
- Chainstack
Shared and dedicated Ethereum nodes as a service (Mainnet, Ropsten, Rinkeby)
- Alchemy
Blockchain Developer Platform, Ethereum API, and Node Service (Mainnet, Ropsten, Rinkeby, Goerli, Kovan)
- ZMOK
JSON-RPC Ethereum API (Mainnet, Rinkeby, Front-running Mainnet)
- Watchdata
Provide simple and reliable API access to Ethereum blockchain
- GetBlock
Blockchain RPC access to Ethereum blockchain and 50 + others
Nethereum.Faucet
A C#/.NET faucet
Front End
- official website
Learn React on or complete some
- aragonUI
A React library including Dapp components
- components.bounties.network
A React library including Dapp components
ui.decentraland.org
A React library including Dapp components
dapparatus
Reusable React Dapp components
Metamask ui
Metamask React Components
DappHybrid
A cross-platform hybrid hosting mechanism for web based decentralised applications
Nethereum.UI.Desktop
Cross-platform desktop wallet sample
- eth-button
Minimalist donation button
- Rimble Design System
Adaptable components and design standards for decentralized applications
brave-ui
List of reusable React components to empower your brave UI
- DApp frontend security
In this article, Author will take a look at security for DApps
Project management
- Dework
| Web3 Trello with token payments, credentials, bounties
- Wonderverse
| Jira alternative with an intuitive task management system that allows DAOs to pay contributors and collaborate in their projects
Important (security)
Further Readings
- The Reading List
and with
Links
- Blockchain Security Roadmap
This article will be laying down a path/roadmap, following which users will easily enter into the field of Blockchain Security together
- The Eye of Horus: Spotting and Analyzing Attacks on Ethereum Smart Contracts
-Investigation shows that the number of attacks did not necessarily decrease over the past few years, but for some vulnerabilities remained constant
- Analysis of Bitcoin Vulnerability to Bribery Attacks Launched Through Large Transactions
In this paper, authors design a novel bribery attack and show that this guarantee can be hugely undermined
- Vulnerability of Blockchain Technologies to Quantum Attacks
Here authors analyze the major blockchain-based cryptocurrencies deployed today -- including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and ZCash, and determine risk exposure to quantum attacks
- BLOCKEYE
Hunting For DeFi Attacks on Blockchain. In this paper, authors proposed BLOCKEYE, a real-time attack detection system for DeFi projects on the Ethereum blockchain
- Topological Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Multilayer Blockchain Networks
Authors introduce a new topological perspective to structural anomaly detection in dynamic multilayer networks
- Verification of the Incremental Merkle Tree Algorithm with Dafny
Authors present our new and original correctness proof of the algorithm along with the Dafny machine-checkable version
- GoHammer Blockchain Performance Test Tool
This tool will help in developing more efficient decentralized systems and will affect decreasing the costs of developing decentralized application projects
- EtherClue: Digital investigation of attacks on Ethereum smart contracts
In this work, authors study the problem of post-factum investigation of Ethereum attacks using Indicators of Compromise specially crafted for use in the blockchain
- Requirement Analyses and Evaluations of Blockchain Platforms per Possible Use Cases
This document provides a generic model of understanding blockchain and its applications
- A Note on Privacy in Constant Function Market Makers
In this note, authors show that privacy is impossible with the usual implementations of CFMMs under most reasonable models of an adversary and provide some mitigating strategies
- A Survey of Security Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Smart Contracts
This paper explains eight vulnerabilities that are specific to the application level of BT by analyzing the exploitation case scenarios of these vulnerabilities
- An approach to detect Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ethereum Smart Contracts
In this paper, authors propose a framework that combines static and dynamic analysis to detect DoS due to an unexpected revert in ETH Smart Contracts
- AGSolT: a Tool for Automated Test-Case Generation for Solidity Smart Contracts
Authors found that AGSolT is capable of achieving high branch overage with both approaches and even discovered some errors in some of the most popular Solidity smart contracts on Github
- Temporal-Amount Snapshot MultiGraph for Ethereum Transaction Tracking
Authors propose TASMG to model Ethereum transaction records as a temporal-amount network and then present TAW to effectively embed accounts via their transaction records, which integrates temporal and amount information of the proposed network
- Demystifying Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks: A Semi-supervised Learning Approach Based on Digital Forensics and Dynamic Network Characteristics
This paper addresses the detection of crypto mining attacks in a generic network environment using dynamic network characteristics
- FASTEN: Fair and Secure Distributed Voting Using Smart Contracts
Authors prove that the probability of privacy breaches is negligibly small. Further, cost analysis of executing FASTEN over Ethereum is comparable to most of the existing cost of elections
- Interdependencies between Mining Costs, Mining Rewards and Blockchain Security
This paper studies to what extent the cost of operating a proof-of-work blockchain is intrinsically linked to the cost of preventing attacks, and to what extent the underlying digital ledger security budgets are correlated with the cryptocurrency market outcomes
- HyperSec: Visual Analytics for blockchain security monitoring
HyperSec, a visual analytics monitoring tool that provides relevant information at a glance to detect ongoing attacks on Hyperledger Fabric
- Reentrancy Vulnerability Identification in Ethereum Smart Contracts
In this paper, authors present a framework that combines static and dynamic analysis to detect Reentrancy vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts
- A General Framework for the Security Analysis of Blockchain Protocols
This paper presents a parsimonious abstraction sufficient for capturing and comparing properties of many well-known permissionless blockchain protocols
- Coinbugs: Enumerating Common Blockchain Implementation-Level Vulnerabilities
The paper is aimed at security testers aiming to start out in blockchain security reviews and blockchain developers as a reference on common pitfalls
- Vulnerabilities and Open Issues of Smart Contracts: A Systematic Mapping
This paper conducted a systematic literature mapping identifying initiatives and tools to analyze SCs and how to deal with the identified vulnerabilities
- SuMo: A Mutation Testing Strategy for Solidity Smart Contracts
Authors report a first evaluation of SuMo on open-source projects for which test suites were available. The results authors got are encouraging, and they suggest that SuMo can effectively help developers to deliver more reliable smart contracts
- (In)Stability for the Blockchain: Deleveraging Spirals and Stablecoin Attacks
The possibility of deleveraging spirals was first predicted in the initial release of this paper in 2019 and later observed in the Black Thursday crisis in Dai in 2020
- An Anonymous Trust-Marking Scheme on Blockchain Systems
In this paper, authors propose an anonymous trust-marking scheme on blockchain systems that is universally applicable to any cryptocurrency
- A Framework and DataSet for Bugs in Ethereum Smart Contracts
In this paper, to fill the gap, authors first collect as many smart contract bugs as possible from multiple sources and divide these bugs into 9 categories by extending the IEEE Standard Classification for Software Anomalies
- A Secure Multi-chains Consensus Scheme Against Diverse Miners Behaviors Attacks in Blockchain Networks.
Experimental results show that PoDT is secure against DMB attacks and more effective than traditional consensus schemes in multi-chains environments
- A Survey on Consortium Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms
This paper highilights several state-of-the art solutions in consensus algorithms for enterprise blockchain
- Extracting Smart Contracts Tested and Verified in Coq
Authors implement extraction of Coq programs to functional languages based on MetaCoq's certified erasure
- Trustless, privacy-preserving blockchain bridges
In this paper, authors present a protocol for facilitating trust-less cross-chain cryptocurrency transfers that preserve privacy of bridge withdrawals
- Security checklists for Ethereum smart contract development: patterns and best practices
Authors cover the phases of design, coding, and testing and deployment of the software lifecycle
- Dynamic Vulnerability Detection on Smart Contracts Using Machine Learning
In this work authors propose Dynamit, a monitoring framework to detect reentrancy vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts
- Targeting the Weakest Link: Social Engineering Attacks in Ethereum Smart Contracts
In this work, authors explore the possibility and existence of new social engineering attacks beyond smart contract honeypots
- OptSmart: A Space Efficient Optimistic Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts
In this paper, authors develop a concurrent miner that proposes a block by executing the AUs concurrently using optimistic Software Transactional Memory systems (STMs)
- DEFECTCHECKER: Automated Smart Contract Defect Detection by Analyzing EVM Bytecode
Experimental results show that DefectChecker performs much better than these tools in terms of both speed and accuracy
- SmartBugs: A Framework to Analyze Solidity Smart Contracts
Authors show how it enables easy integration and comparison of analysis tools by presenting a new extension to the tool SmartCheck that improves substantially the detection of vulnerabilities related to the DASP10 categories Bad Randomness, Time Manipulation, and Access Control (identified vulnerabilities increased from 11% to 24%)
- Profiling Gas Leaks in Solidity Smart Contracts
In this paper, authors identify a set of 19 Solidity code smells affecting the deployment and transaction costs of a smart contract, and assess the relevance of such smells through a survey involving 34 participants
- Securing Parallel-chain Protocols under Variable Mining Power
In this paper, authors consider the design of provably secure parallel-chain protocols which can adapt to such mining power variations
- Ethereum SmartContract Vulnerability Detection using Deep Neural Network and Transfer Learning
ESCORT framework enables transfer learning on new vulnerability types with minimal modification of the DNN model architecture and re-training overhead
- SCSGuard: Deep Scam Detection for Ethereum Smart Contracts
Experimental results manifest that SCSGuard achieves high accuracy (0.94), precision (0.96%) and recall (0.98) for both Ponzi and Honeypot scams, and new Phishing smart contracts
- Securing Cyber-Physical Systems Through Blockchain-Based Digital Twins and Threat Intelligence
This article focuses on securing CPSs by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain for intelligent and trusted DTs
- A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends
In this post, authors study blockchain interoperability techniques and solutions, providing a holistic overview of blockchain interoperability, paving the way for systematic research in this domain
- SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: front-running attacks on Blockchain
A paper on secure smart contract designs decisions and front-running possibilities on DApps
- SoK: Oracles from the Ground Truth to Market Manipulation
A paper that systemizes the design alternatives for oracles, showcases attacks, and discusses attack mitigation strategies
- TryHackMe: Complete rooms with challenges and puzzles to break, all from the browser
Hands on cybersecurity training with real-world tasks
- Disclose: Cross-industry and vendor-agnostic standards for best practives in cybersecurity research
Open source maintainers and industry experts providing a central source for assistance, information, and help via templates, tools, data sets
- Hack The Box
A Hacker's playground to dynamically and compete against other users in a collaborative ecosystem that promotes hands-on training experience
- OverTheWire
Set of wargames and challenges offered by a community to learn and practice security concepts in fun wargames
- Pentesterlab
Hands-on labs covering different bu classes from basic to advanced
- Portswigger labs
Set of web application secrity labs with attached community solutions
- Vulnhub
Users upload "challenge boxes" that often attempt to gain root access by exploiting known vulnerabilities
- Ethernaut by OpenZeppelin
A collection of Web3 wargamees inspired by in the context of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Each level is a smart contract that needs to be hacked
- Damn Vulnerable Defi
An offensive security playground to learn red team cybersecurity in the context of DeFi and smart contracts. Examples include tasks where the users needs to stop the system from working, take out funds from a contract
Damn Vulnerable DeFi | Foundry
Same as Damn Vulnerable DeFi but in the context of the foundry development framework
- Capture the Ether
Traditional game consisting of a series of categorized challenges where the user earns points after every successful challenge. The goal is to make the function return true
- Finematics
Educational videos on DeFi
- Formal Analysis of Composable DeFi Protocols
In this paper, authors propose a formal process-algebraic technique that models DeFi protocols in a compositional manner to allow for efficient property verification
- Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
Authors explain the behavior of fees in blockchains
- DeFi-ning DeFi: Challenges & Pathway
Good Retrospective into the beginning of decentralized finance
- A theory of Automated Market Makers in DeFi
Authors exploit our theory to formally prove a set of fundamental properties of AMMs, characterizing both structural and economic aspects
- From banks to DeFi: the evolution of the lending market
Authors discuss the persisting reliance of DeFi lending on the traditional financial system, and conclude with the outlook of the lending market in the IOV era
- On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols
-In this paper, authors investigate two methods that allow them to automatically create profitable DeFi trades
- Maximizing Extractable Value from Automated Market Makers
In this paper authors formally characterize rational miners as players which follow an optimal strategy in the mining game
- The Decentralized Financial Crisis
In this paper authors explore how design weaknesses and price fluctuations in DeFi protocols could lead to a DeFi crisis
- Liquidations: DeFi on a Knife-edge
In order to protect protocols from suffering losses, undercollateralized positions can be liquidated. In this paper, authors present empirical analysis of liquidations on protocols for loanable funds (PLFs)
- Measuring Asset Composability as a Proxy for DeFi Integration
Authors seek to understand the degree to which this practice may contribute to financial integration on Ethereum by examining transactions in 'composed' derivatives for the assets DAI, USDC, USDT, ETH and tokenized BTC for the full set of 344.8 million Ethereum transactions computed in 2020
- Dynamic Curves for Decentralized Autonomous Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Authors propose in this work a new approach to constructing the AMM by proposing the idea of dynamic curves
- High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges
In this work authors formalize, analytically exposit and empirically evaluate an augmented variant of front-running: sandwich attacks, which involve front- and back-running victim TXs
- Flashot
A Snapshot of Flash Loan Attack on DeFi Ecosystem
- DeFiRanger
Detecting Price Manipulation Attacks on DeFi Applications
- Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
Flash Loans. DeFi. Classic
- SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
In this Systematization of Knowledge (SoK), authors delineate the DeFi ecosystem along its principal axes. SCSGuard: Deep Scam Detection for Ethereum Smart Contracts
- Empirical Evidence from four Governance Token Distributions
This paper provides a framework to quantify decentralization of governance power among blockchain applications
- The Adoption of Blockchain-based Decentralized Exchanges
Authors show that liquidity providers lose token value if exchange rates are volatile due to the order execution mechanism of the blockchain-based exchange
- An analysis of Uniswap markets
-One of the best studies on Uniswap DEX activity, authors started researching in 2019 and recently released fresh 2021 analysis
- Finance 4.0: Design principles for a value-sensitive cryptoecnomic system to address sustainability
Authors provide new insights on designing crypto systems
- Behavior of Liquidity Providers in Decentralized Exchanges
Authors aim to understand how liquidity providers react to market information and how they benefit from providing liquidity in DEX
- Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchange Markets
Good Read. This paper suggests that with the smart contract technology and the replicated state machine setting of Ethereum, arbitrage strategies are easier implemented in DEXes than in CEX
- SoK: Oracles from the Ground Truth to Market Manipulation
In this SoK, authors systemize the design alternatives for oracles, showcase attacks, and discuss attack mitigation strategies
- Composing Networks of Automated Market Makers
This paper proposes a mathematical model for AMM composition
- Blockchain Oracle Design Patterns
In this paper, authors will study and analyze blockchain oracles with regard to how they provide feedback to the blockchain and smart contracts
- CeFi vs. DeFi - Comparing Centralized to Decentralized Finance
In this work, authors systematically analyze the differences between CeFi and DeFi, covering legal, economic, security, privacy and market manipulation. Authors also provide a structured methodology to differentiate between a CeFi and a DeFi service
- Ethereum Name Service: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Yet, no existing work has studied this emerging system, the security issues and misbehaviors in ENS. Authors present the first study of ENS by analyzing millions of event logs related to ENS
- Mapping the NFT revolution
Market trends, trade networks and visual features
- Fairness in ERC token markets
A Case Study of CryptoKitties
- Non-Fungible Token: Overview, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges
In this technical report, authors explore the NFT ecosystems in several aspects
- Stablecoins 2.0
Authors seek to provide a sound foundation for stablecoin theory, with a risk-based functional characterization of the economic structure of stablecoins
- Reducing the Volatility of Cryptocurrencies — A Survey of Stablecoins
Authors discuss how stablecoins help reduce the volatility of cryptocurrencies by surveying different types of stablecoins and their stability mechanisms
- Understand Volatility of Algorithmic Stablecoin: Modeling, Verification and Empirical Analysis
Authors performed a systematic empirical analysis on real transaction activities of the Basis Cash stablecoin to relate theoretical possibilities to market observations
- T-Cash: Transferable Fiat Backed Coins
In this paper authors propose a transferable electronic cash scheme using blockchain technology which allows users to continuously reuse coins within the system
- A Big Data Analysis of the Ethereum Network: from Blockchain to Google Trends
An analysis of the crypto prices and search trends suggests the existence of big players (and not the regular users), manipulating the market after a drop in prices
- A DLT-based Smart Contract Architecture for Atomic and Scalable Trading
In this paper, authors propose an atomic, scalable and privacy-preserving protocol that enables secure and dynamic updates. Then develop a smart contract-based Credit-Note System (CNS) that allows participants to lock funds before a state channel initialisation, which enhances flexibility and efficiency
- Exploring Ethereum Data Stores: A Cost and Performance Comparison
-In this work, authors examine a comprehensive set of data management approaches for ETH apps and assess the associated cost in gas as well as the retrieval performance
- A Systematic Literature Review on Blockchain Governance
This study comprehensively investigates blockchain governance via 5W1H questions
- A general framework for blockchain analytics
Authors propose a general-purpose framework, supporting data analytics on Bitcoin Ethereum — it allows to integrate block data with data from other sources, and to organise them in a database
- AMR:Autonomous Coin Mixer with Privacy Preserving Reward Distribution
In this work, authors propose the first censorship resilient mixer, which can reward its users in a privacy-preserving manner for participating in the system
- Technology Review of Blockchain Data Privacy Solutions
This report aims to review existing enterprise blockchain technologies: EOSIO powered systems, Hyperledger Fabric and Besu, Consensus Quorum, R3 Corda and Ernst and Young’s Nightfall
- Blockchain Systems, Technologies and Applications: A Methodology Perspective
First, this article introduces how blockchain works, the research activity and challenge, and illustrates the roadmap involving the classic methodology with typical blockchain use cases and topics. Second, in blockchain system, how to adopt stochastic process, game theory, optimization, machine learning and cryptography to study blockchain running process and design blockchain protocol/algorithm are discussed in details
- Ethna: Analyzing the Underlying Peer-to-Peer Network of the Ethereum Blockchain
Ethna implements a novel method that accurately measures the degrees of Ethereum nodes
- Community Detection in Blockchain Social Networks
A novel community detection algorithm which is designed for low-rank signals on graph can help find users’ communities based on user-token subscription
- Block Access Control in Wireless Blockchain Network: Design, Modeling and Analysis
The results show that BAC approaches can help the network to achieve a high transaction throughput while improving block utilization and saving computational power. Meanwhile, the trade-off between transaction throughput and block utilization is demonstrated, which can act as a guidance for practical deployment of blockchain
- Towards External Calls for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology
In this paper authors show that this belief is preconceived by demonstrating a method that enables blockchain and distributed ledger technologies to perform calls to external systems initiated from the blockchain/DLT itself
- Managing Blockchain Systems and Applications: A Process Model for Blockchain Configurations
Authors demonstrate the applicability of the proposed blockchain configuration process model on four blockchain projects
- A Note on Optimal Fees for Constant Function Market Makers
Authors present framework that can be used to compute optimal fees for real world pools using past trade data
- Reward Mechanism for Blockchains Using Evolutionary Game Theory
In this paper, authors develop a reward mechanism framework that could apply to many PoS blockchains
- Summing Up Smart Transitions
In this paper, authors present a generalization of first-order logic which can express the unbounded sum of balances
- 100+ Metrics for Software Startups - A Multi-Vocal Literature Review
Using data in the form of metrics can help software startups to make the right decisions amidst uncertainty and limited resources
- Blockchain Networks: Data Structures of Bitcoin , Monero, Zcash, Ethereum, Ripple and IOTA
Authors discuss how blockchain data can be abstracted as various types of networks, and how network abstractions used to reap insights into the structure
- Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets
Written by Fabian Schar, gives an overview of blockchain based markets with technical details but in a digestable format; great paper for new comers to the space
- EIP1559 FAQ
EIP1559 FAQ
- Dynamical Analysis of the EIP-1559 Ethereum Fee Market
Authors perform a thorough analysis of the resulting fee market dynamic mechanism via a combination of tools from game theory and dynamical systems
- Stochastic Properties of EIP1559 Basefees
Authors explain the new pricing mechanism for the Ethereum developed to bring stability to fluctuating gas prices
- Transaction Fee Mechanism Design for the Ethereum Blockchain: An Economic Analysis of EIP-1559
This report assesses the game-theoretic strengths and weaknesses of the proposal and explores some alternative designs
- Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
Authors provide evidence that miners already extract Miner Extractable Value (MEV), which could destabilize the blockchain consensus security, as related work has shown
- Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
Introduces the concept of MEV, the work highlights the large, complex risks created by transaction-ordering dependencies in smart contracts and the ways in which traditional forms of financial-market exploitation are adapting to and penetrating blockchain economies
- Flashbots: MEV in Eth2
In this post, authors study transaction ordering in eth2 and analyze MEV-enabled staking yields. Then they find that MEV will significantly boost validator rewards but may reinforce inequalities among participants of eth2. Authors also discuss qualitative aspects of MEV in eth2 such as the potential dynamics that will unfold between its largest stakeholders like exchanges and validator pools
- A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends
In this post, authors study blockchain interoperability techniques and solutions, providing a holistic overview of blockchain interoperability, paving the way for systematic research in this domain
- Rekt News
Anonymous platform for whistleblowers and DeFi detectives to present their information to the community
- Blockchain Threat Intelligence
Newsletter covering the latest security news, tools, events, vulnerabilities, and threats in the cryptocurrency landscape. Also
- Blockchain Graveyard
A list of all massive security breaches or thefts involving blockchains
Tools Collection
dapp-bin
Ethereum repo providing implementations for many common data structures and utilities in Solidity, Serpent and LLL
Solidity Collections
Collections of code snippets and utility libraries
- OpenZeppelin
Framework to build secure smart contracts
Zeppelin
Contains tested reusable smart contracts like SafeMath and OpenZeppelin SDK for smart contract upgradeability
cryptofin-solidity
A collection of Solidity libraries for building secure and gas-efficient smart contracts on Ethereum
Modular Libraries
A group of packages built for use on blockchains utilising the Ethereum Virtual Machine
DateTime Library
A gas-efficient Solidity date and time library
ARC
an operating system for DAOs and the base layer of the DAO stack
- 0x
DEX protocol
Token Libraries with Proofs
Contains correctness proofs of token contracts wrt. given specifications and high-level properties
Provable API
Provides contracts for using the Provable service, allowing for off-chain actions, data-fetching, and computation
ABDK Libraries for Solidity
Fixed-point (64.64 bit) and IEEE-754 compliant quad precision (128 bit) floating-point math libraries for Solidity
- Simpler Ethereum Multisig
especially section
CryptoFin Solidity Auditing Checklist
A checklist of common findings, and issues to watch out for when auditing a contract for a mainnet launch
CryptoFin Solidity Auditing Checklist
A checklist of common findings, and issues to watch out for when auditing a contract for a mainnet launch
- MythX
Security verification platform and tools ecosystem for Ethereum developers
Mythril
Open-source EVM bytecode security analysis tool
Oyente
Alternative static smart contract security analysis
- Securify
Security scanner for Ethereum smart contracts
- SmartCheck
Static smart contract security analyzer
Ethersplay
EVM disassembler
Evmdis
Alternative EVM disassembler
Hydra
Framework for cryptoeconomic contract security, decentralised security bounties
Solgraph
Visualise Solidity control flow for smart contract security analysis
Manticore
Symbolic execution tool on Smart Contracts and Binaries
Slither
A Solidity static analysis framework
Adelaide
The SECBIT static analysis extension to Solidity compiler
solc-verify
A modular verifier for Solidity smart contracts
Solidity security blog
Comprehensive list of known attack vectors and common anti-patterns
Awesome Buggy ERC20 Tokens
A Collection of Vulnerabilities in ERC20 Smart Contracts With Tokens Affected
- Free Smart Contract Security Audit
Free smart contract security audits from Callisto Network
- Piet
A visual Solidity architecture analyzer
- Contract Library
Decompiler and vulnerability scanner for deployed contracts
Web3.js
Javascript Web3
- Eth.js
Javascript Web3 alternative
Ethers.js
Javascript Web3 alternative, useful utilities and wallet features
light.js
A high-level reactive JS library optimized for light clients
Web3Wrapper
Typescript Web3 alternative
- Ethereumjs
A collection of utility functions for Ethereum like and
flex-contract
and - Modern, zero-configuration, high-level libraries for interacting with smart contracts and making transactions
ez-ens
Simple, zero-configuration Ethereum Name Service address resolver
web3x
A TypeScript port of web3.js. Benefits includes tiny builds and full type safety, including when interacting with contracts
- Nethereum
Cross-platform Ethereum development framework
dfuse
A TypeScript library to use
Drizzle
Redux library to connect a frontend to a blockchain
Tasit SDK
A JavaScript SDK for making native mobile Ethereum dapps using React Native
useMetamask
a custom React Hook to manage Metamask in Ethereum ĐApp projects
- WalletConnect
Open protocol for connecting Wallets to Dapps
ChainAbstractionLayer
Communicate with different blockchains (including Ethereum) using a single interface
Delphereum
a Delphi interface to the Ethereum blockchain that allows for development of native dApps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android
- Torus
Open-sourced SDK to build dapps with a seamless onboarding UX
- Fortmatic
A simple to use SDK to build web3 dApps without extensions or downloads
- Portis
A non-custodial wallet with an SDK that enables easy interaction with DApps without installing anything
create-eth-app
Create Ethereum-powered front-end apps with one command
Scaffold-ETH
Beginner friendly forkable github for getting started building smart contracts
- Jolly Roger
dApp framework using ethereum, builder, svelte and thegraph
- Notify.js
Deliver real-time notifications to your users. With built-in support for Speed-Ups and Cancels, Blocknative Notify.js helps users transact with confidence. Notify.js is easy to integrate and quick to customize
Web3.py
Python Web3
Web3.php
PHP Web3
Ethereum-php
PHP Web3
Web3j
Java Web3
- Nethereum
.Net Web3
Ethereum.rb
Ruby Web3
rust-web3
Rust Web3
ethers-rs
Ethers-rs
- Web3.hs
Haskell Web3
KEthereum
Kotlin Web3
Eventeum
A bridge between Ethereum smart contract events and backend microservices, written in Java by Kauri
Ethereumex
Elixir JSON-RPC client for the Ethereum blockchain
Ethereum-jsonrpc-gateway
A gateway that allows you to run multiple Ethereum nodes for redundancy and load-balancing purposes. Can be ran as an alternative to (or on top of) Infura. Written in Golang
EthContract
A set of helper methods to help query ETH smart contracts in Elixir
- Ethereum Contract Service
A MESG Service to interact with any Ethereum contract based on its address and ABI
- Ethereum Service
A MESG Service to interact with events from Ethereum and interact with it
- Marmo
Python, JS, and Java SDK for simplifying interactions with Ethereum. Uses relayers to offload transaction costs to relayers
- Ethereum Logging Framework
provides advanced logging capabilities for Ethereum applications and networks including a query language, query processor, and logging code generation
- Besu
an open-source Ethereum client developed under the Apache 2.0 license and written in Java. The project is hosted by Hyperledger
- Geth
Go client
Erigon
a mostly Go implementation of Ethereum client built on the efficiency frontier
Akula
Rust implementation
Nethermind
.NET Core client
- Infura
A managed service providing Ethereum client standards-compliant APIs
- Trinity
Python client using
Ethereumjs
JS client using
Seth
Seth is an Ethereum client tool—like a "MetaMask for the command line"
Quorum
A permissioned implementation of Ethereum supporting data privacy by
Awesome Quorum
A curated list of awesome software, libraries, tools and more to build on ConsenSys Quorum
- Chainstack
A managed service providing shared and dedicated Geth nodes
- QuikNode
Blockchain developer cloud with API access and node-as-a-service
- Watchdata
Provide simple and reliable API access to Ethereum blockchain
DB3 Network
Decentralized Firebase Firestore Alternative
- IPFS
Decentralised storage and file referencing
Mahuta
IPFS Storage service with added search capability, formerly IPFS-Store
OrbitDB
Decentralised database on top of IPFS
JS IPFS API
A client library for the IPFS HTTP API, implemented in JavaScript
TEMPORAL
Easy to use API into IPFS and other distributed/decentralised storage protocols
- PINATA
The Easiest Way to Use IPFS
- Swarm
Distributed storage platform and content distribution service, a native base layer service of the Ethereum web3 stack
- Infura
A managed IPFS API Gateway and pinning service
- Aleph.im
an offchain incentivized peer-to-peer cloud project (database, file storage, computing and DID) compatible with ETH and IPFS
- dAppling Network
Uses IPFS for quick and easy decentralized web hosting
- Fleek
similar to netlify but uses ipfs for hosting websites
- Truffle boxes
Packaged components for the Ethereum ecosystem
Create Eth App
Create Ethereum-powered frontend apps with one command
- Besu Private Network
Run a private network of Besu nodes in a Docker container
Testchains
Pre-configured .NET devchains for fast response (PoA)
Blazor/Blockchain Explorer
Wasm blockchain explorer (functional sample)
Local Raiden
Run a local Raiden network in docker containers for demo and testing purposes
Private networks deployment scripts
Out-of-the-box deployment scripts for private PoA networks
Local Ethereum Network
Out-of-the-box deployment scripts for private PoW networks
- Kaleido
Use Kaleido for spinning up a consortium blockchain network. Great for PoCs and testing
Cheshire
A local sandbox implementation of the CryptoKitties API and smart contracts, available as a Truffle Box
aragonCLI
aragonCLI is used to create and develop Aragon apps and organizations
ColonyJS
JavaScript client that provides an API for interacting with the Colony Network smart contracts
ArcJS
Library that facilitates javascript application access to the DAOstack Arc ethereum smart contracts
- Onboard.js
Blocknative Onboard is the quick and easy way to add multi-wallet support to your project. With built-in modules for more than 20 unique hardware and software wallets, Onboard saves you time and headaches
web3-react
React framework for building single-page Ethereum dApps
ABI decoder
library for decoding data params and events from Ethereum transactions
ABI-gen
Generate Typescript contract wrappers from contract ABI's
headlong
type-safe Contract ABI and Recursive Length Prefix library in Java
- EasyDapper
Generate dapps from Truffle artifacts, deploy contracts on public/private networks, offers live customizable public page to interact with contracts
- One Click dApp
Instantly create a dApp at a unique URL using the ABI
- Truffle Pig
a development tool that provides a simple HTTP API to find and read from Truffle-generated contract files, for use during local development. Serves fresh contract ABIs over http
- Ethereum Contract Service
A MESG Service to interact with any Ethereum contract based on its address and ABI
Nethereum-CodeGenerator
A web based generator which creates a Nethereum based C# Interface and Service based on Solidity Smart Contracts
Testing Tools
Solidity code coverage
Solidity code coverage tool
Solidity coverage
Alternative code coverage for Solidity smart-contracts
Solidity function profiler
Solidity contract function profiler
Sol-profiler
Alternative and updated Solidity smart contract profiler
Espresso
Speedy, parallelised, hot-reloading solidity test framework
Eth tester
Tool suite for testing Ethereum applications
Cliquebait
Simplifies integration and accepting testing of smart contract applications with docker instances that closely resembles a real blockchain network
Hevm
The hevm project is an implementation of the Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) made specifically for unit testing and debugging smart contracts
Ethereum graph debugger
Solidity graphical debugger
Tenderly CLI
Speed up your development with human readable stack traces
Solhint
Solidity linter that provides security, style guide and best practice rules for smart contract validation
Ethlint
Linter to identify and fix style & security issues in Solidity, formerly Solium
Decode
npm package which parses tx's submitted to a local testrpc node to make them more readable and easier to understand
truffle-assertions
An npm package with additional assertions and utilities used in testing Solidity smart contracts with truffle. Most importantly, it adds the ability to assert whether specific events have (not) been emitted
Psol
Solidity lexical preprocessor with mustache.js-style syntax, macros, conditional compilation and automatic remote dependency inclusion
solpp
Solidity preprocessor and flattener with a comprehensive directive and expression language, high precision math, and many useful helper functions
- Decode and Publish
– Decode and publish raw ethereum tx. Similar to
- Doppelgänger
a library for mocking smart contract dependencies during unit testing
- glide.r
a tool for performing smart contract queries (audit/bug-bounty)
rocketh
A simple lib to test ethereum smart contract that allow to use whatever web3 lib and test runner you choose
pytest-cobra
PyTest plugin for testing smart contracts for Ethereum blockchain
- ERCx
Testing tool with a Web interface to test conformance and properties of ERC-20 tokens. Based on Foundry forge
- thread
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