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Master Substrate

My self-learning course for mastering Substrate

1. Backgrounds

Fundamentals

• [ ] Blockchain basics
• [ ] Why Substrate?
• [ ] Architecture
• [ ] Networks and blockchains
• [ ] Runtime development
• [ ] Consensus
• [ ] Transactions and block basics
• [ ] Transaction Lifecycle
• [ ] State transitions and storage
• [ ] Accounts, addresses and keys
• [ ] Rust for Substrate
• [ ] Offchain Operations

Build

• [ ] Introduction to libraries
• [ ] Build process
• [ ] Runtime storage
• [ ] Transactions, weights and fees
• [ ] Custom pallets
• [ ] Pallet coupling
• [ ] Events and errors
• [ ] Randomness
• [ ] Chain specification
• [ ] Priviledged calls and origins
• [ ] Remote procedure calls
• [ ] Application development
• [ ] Upgrade the runtime

How-to guides

Basics

• [ ] Import a pallet
• [ ] Configure runtime constants
• [ ] Configure genesis state
• [ ] Customize a chain specification
• [ ] Use helper functions
• [ ] Mint primitive tokens

Pallet design

• [ ] Add the contracts pallet
• [ ] Implement lockable currency
• [ ] Incorporate randomness
• [ ] Configure crowdfunding
• [ ] Create a storage structure (struct)
• [ ] Use tight pallet coupling
• [ ] Use loose pallet coupling

Weights

• [ ] Calculate fees
• [ ] Add benchmarks
• [ ] Use custom weights
• [ ] Use conditional weights

Testing

• [ ] Set up basic tests
• [ ] Test a transfer function

Consensus models

• [ ] Create a hybrid node
• [ ] Add proof-of-work consensus

Parachains

• [ ] Convert a solo chain
• [ ] Connect to a relay chain
• [ ] Select collators
• [ ] Prepare to launch
• [ ] Runtime upgrades
• [ ] Auctions and crowdloans
• [ ] Add HRMP channels

Tools

• [ ] Use try-runtime
• [ ] Create a txwrapper for a chain
• [ ] Use REST endpoints to get chain data
• [ ] Verify a Wasm binary

Offchain workers

• [ ] Make offchain transactions
• [ ] Make offchain HTTP requests
• [ ] Offchain local storage
• [ ] Offchain indexing

Reference

• [ ] Glossary
• [ ] Runtime APIs
• [ ] FRAME pallets
• [ ] Frame macros
• [ ] Account data structures
• [ ] Type encoding(SCALE)
• [ ] Transaction formats
• [ ] Cryptography

Polkadot

• [ ] Polkadot Wiki

PolkadotJS

• [ ] PolkadotJS Docs

ink!

• [ ] Ink! documentation

2. Learn by doing

"Practice makes perfect"

https://docs.substrate.io/tutorials/

Getting Started

• [ ] Build a local blockchain
• [ ] Simulate a network
• [ ] Add trusted nodes
• [ ] Authorize specific nodes
• [ ] Monitor node metrics
• [ ] Upgrade a running network

Work with pallets

• [ ] Add a pallet to the runtime
• [ ] Configure the contracts pallet
• [ ] Use macros in a custom pallet
• [ ] Specify the origin for a call
• [ ] Publish custom pallets

Develop smart contracts

• [ ] Prepare your first contract
• [ ] Develop a smart contract
• [ ] Use maps for storing values
• [ ] Build a token contract
• [ ] Troubleshoot smart contracts

Connect with other chains

• [ ] Start a local relay chain
• [ ] Connect a local parachain
• [ ] Connect to Rococo testnet

Integrate with tools

• [ ] Integrate a light client node
• [ ] Access EVM accounts

Substrate Developer Hub - tutorials (Stale, not recommended)

• [ ] add a pallet
• [ ] build a dapp
• [ ] create your first substrate chain
• [ ] pallet in own crate
• [ ] start a private network

Rusty Crewmate - Substrate tutorials

• [ ] writing tests
• [ ] fungible token
• [ ] runtime
• [ ] nft
• [ ] marketplace

Substrate Collectables Workshop

3. Useful Tools

• bs58 decoder

4. Substrate engineer job boards

• https://forms.gle/mUoLGsDUSpy4yB3F9
• https://careers.substrate.io/jobs
• https://dotjobs.net/

5. Misc.

• Awesome Substrate
• Substrate StackExchange
• SS58 Registry
• [x] Smart Contracts vs. Substrate Pallets: Important Building Blocks and Their Differences

6. Leading companies in the Substrate ecosystem

• Parity Technologies