etherdocs

My Ethereum docs, notes, etc. as I learn.

These will be pretty rough, sometimes unvalidated, so take it with a grain of salt. Will try to cite sources where I can.

List of lists

(Rolls up a bunch of reading into one doc/article)

• https://github.com/Scanate/EthList#getting-started (h/t @matthewjgroff)

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) (general)

• ICOLIST
• ICO stats - site || ICOs vs eth
• Lawnmower.io - research and tools
• ICO funding https://blog.coinbase.com/app-coins-and-the-dawn-of-the-decentralized-business-model-8b8c951e734f
• Create a token contract: https://tokenfactory.surge.sh/#/factory

Cryptocurrency exchanges

• Coinbase - convert "real money" into bitcoin, ethereum, or litecoin. ACH bank transfers can take a week (!!) for some reason.
• GDAX - Coinbase's trading platform for bitcoin, ethereum, or litecoin.
• Kraken - fiat and coin-to-coin exchange.
• Poloniex - coin-to-coin exchange; also has lending market and margin trading. (Fun fact: as of June 13 this exchange holds about 4.7% of all eth, or nearly $1.7 billion in US dollars).
• shapeshift.io - coin-to-coin exchange

Specific tokens

• (REP) Augur - site || docs - prediction market, uses REP coins.
• (BAT) Basic Attention Token - site || whitepaper
• Gnosis - site || whitepaper - prediction market
• Filecoin - site || whitepaper (old) - distributed file serving, get coin for providing storage. See also ipfs whitepaper
• (SC) Siacoin - site || wiki - similar to Filecoin in that you're compensated for storing data, but I can't seem to find a whitepaper or similar
• (STRAT) Stratis - site || whitepaper || use cases

Writing Contracts

• General
  • Solidity - the official docs, but not a great starting place
• Examples
  • Full Stack Hello World Voting Ethereum Dapp Tutorial — Part 1 - writing and deploying simple voting app through geth (by Mahesh Murthy)
  • [video] Beginner's Guide: Smart Contracts Programming Tutorial in Solidity 1 - several parts to this; a good starting point for reading and storing data on the blockchain
• Tools / Frameworks / IDEs
  • remix - ethereum ide and tools for the web (BH: awesome, use this)
  • Truffle "is a world class development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for Ethereum"
  • Fast Ethereum RPC client for testing and development
  • GDAX-Python - unofficial python library for GDAX (Coinbase's trading platform) API

Whitepapers

• Essentials

  • Bitcoin - whitepaper
  • Ethereum - whitepaper || yellow paper

• Coins

  • BAT (Basic Attention Token) whitepaper
  • STRAT (Stratis) whitepaper

• Blockchain

  • Applications of Blockchain Technology to Banking And Financial Sector in India by Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology

  Oracles

  • oraclize.it - site || docs - (oracles help smart contracts fetch external data)

Things from Pocket to catch up on

• Consensus 2017 NYC Day 2 - 3 hour playback: https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.coindesk.com/live-stream/Day2_Manhattan.html
• Talk: Decentralized Web, IPFS, and Filecoin - Jaun Benet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU-n_m-snxQ
• Oraclize docs -
• Ethereal Summit 2017 - Introducing: Token (Brian Armstrong - CEO of Coinbase) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IJ6uWQzzwk
• Ethereum Homstead docs - http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/ - maybe fork and edit, kind of rough in places

Further reading to-do

• DAO's - how structured, read contracts, understand The DAO issue
• Sybil attack
• ERC20 - standard for smart contracts that implement tokens
• Fees
• Gas explained
• Check out: http://cryptofees.net