Join us in learning, exploring and building decentralised ecosystems. The Equalizer Academy is for everyone who wants to learn about blockchain and Decentralised Finance (DeFi).
We cover the following topics
- Block processing
- EVM and Smart Contracts
- Flash Loans
- Arbitrage, Liquidation and Collateral swap
- Trading arbitrage strategies
- Trading automation or trading bots
Every two weeks, we organise an online meeting where we introduce the topics, hold discussions or have hands-on workshops. We share the agenda and learning materials before the meeting.
The Equalizer Academy working group is open, meaning that everyone can propose new agenda items, topics or workshops. You can propose a new topic via our Discord channel.
To learn how to contribute, see the How to contribute? guidelines.
In this meeting, we discuss
- how blockchain processes blocks, transactions and smart contracts
- what are smart contracts
- what makes Flash Loans possible
Reading material
Understanding Flash Loans 2 - 07 Feb 2022 recording
In this meeting, we discuss
- Smart contracts
- Software development and Solidity
- What are Flash Loans
- Why they are risk- and collateral-free
- Example flash loans (block explorers)
- Example flash loan Smart Contract
Reading material
Flash loan use-cases - 21 Feb 2022 recording
In this meeting, we discuss
- Loans, DeFi loans, Flash loans and collaterals
- Flash loan use cases
- What is arbitrage
- Arbitrage strategies
- What is collateral swap
- What is liquidation/self-liquidation
Flash loans in action 1 - 07 Mar 2022 recording
In this meeting, we discuss
- Interfaces
- Compiling solidity
- ABI and interacting with a Smart Contract
- Interacting with decentralised exchanges
We will host a hands-on workshop after the theoretical part.
Before the meeting, we welcome you to read the following materials
Meeting presentation
Replit workspace
Remix IDE
In this meeting, we discuss
- how to compile and deploy Smart Contracts using REMIX IDE
- how to interact with smart contracts via Etherscan
- how to borrow and return a Flash Loan
Before the meeting, we welcome you to read the following materials
In this meeting, we
- present different Flash Loan providers
- compare the Flash Loan providers
- show how how to migrate between flash loan providers
Before the meeting, we welcome you to read the following materials
TBD
In this meeting, we discuss
- What is an arbitrage
- What arbitrage opportunities we know
- How to identify arbitrage opportunities
- Risks and opportunities
Before the meeting, we welcome you to read the following materials
TBD