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🚀 Helpful Tools & Resources

We've curated a collection of resources to supercharge your journey in the Ethereum ecosystem. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, there's something for everyone.

📚 General Ethereum Resources

🎨 NFTs and DAOs

🔧 Ethereum R&D

⚡ Layer 2 & Scaling Solutions

  • Ethereum for Everyone – Discover how Ethereum scales without compromising security.
  • Optimism – Learn about this low-cost, fast Ethereum Layer 2 solution.
  • L2Beat – Research Ethereum Layer 2 scalability solutions.
  • Vitalik on Rollups – Understand the importance of rollups with this guide.
  • zkSync – Dive into zk-Rollups and explore Ethereum's future scaling solutions.
  • Raiden Network – Fast, cheap, scalable token transfers for Ethereum
  • Perun) – Perun is an off-chain framework that supports real-time payments as well as complex business logic and supercharges any existing blockchain
  • Kchannels – A payment channel system for Ethereum with great UX and fast finality
  • Connext – Say Hello to a Multichain Ethereum
  • Polygon – Ethereum's Internet of Blockchains
  • Vitalik on zk-SNARKs – An approximate introduction to how zk-SNARKs are possible
  • Paradigm Research – (Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup
  • Scaling Ethereum on L2 – Optimistic Rollups and ZK-Rollups
  • ArbOS – The Arbitrum Operating System · Offchain Labs Dev Center
  • Loopring – zkRollup Exchange and Payment Protocol
  • StarkDEX Alpha – Bringing STARKs to Ethereum
  • Zero Knowledge Proofs – An illustrated primer
  • Vitalik on PLONK – Understanding PLONK
  • Learn to build using ZKS - How I learned zk-SNARKS from scratch

📖 Educational Resources

🎧 Podcasts & Books

  • Daily Gwei – Stay updated with the latest Ethereum news, tools, and resources.
  • Bankless – Explore the frontier of crypto money and finance on YouTube.
  • Ethereum Cat Herders – Interviews with the builders of our ecosystem.
  • Mastering Ethereum – A developer's guide to Ethereum.
  • The Infinite Machine – The story of Ethereum's rise with crypto-hackers.
  • Proof of Stake – Discover the philosophy of blockchains through the story of Ethereum.
  • Virtual Economies – How the basic concepts of economics—including markets, institutions, and money—can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods

🌀 Miscellaneous

💰 Grants, Bounties and Prizes

🛠️ Feedback & Additional Resources

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