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My self-learning course for mastering Substrate

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
• Smart Contracts vs. Substrate Pallets: Important Building Blocks and Their Differences

6. Leading companies in the Substrate ecosystem

• Parity Technologies