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About These Projects

The best way to make the modules stick is to build something. These four projects take you from a blockchain written in JavaScript to an ERC-20 token, an NFT collection, and finally a full-stack dApp with React, ethers.js and Hardhat.

Each one is a code-along video, so you can pause, type it out yourself and adapt it to your own ideas. Use test networks and test ether while you practice, and never put real funds or a real private key into tutorial code. Pick the project that matches the module you've just finished and come back for the rest.

Projects

4 builds
01

Build a Blockchain with Proof of Work in JavaScript

Write a small blockchain from scratch in JavaScript, with blocks, hashing, chaining and proof of work, to see how the ideas from the first modules fit together.

02

Create an ERC-20 Token with Solidity & Hardhat

Write your own ERC-20 token contract in Solidity and test it with Hardhat.

03

Create and Deploy an NFT (ERC-721)

Write an ERC-721 contract with OpenZeppelin, deploy it to a testnet, and host the NFT art and metadata.

04

Build a Full-Stack dApp with React, Hardhat & ethers.js

Build a complete dApp: write and deploy Solidity contracts with Hardhat, then connect a React front end to them using ethers.js and MetaMask.