
Blockchain Foundations & Smart Contracts

Blockchain Foundations & Smart Contracts
This course is part of From Blocks to Build: Blockchain Dev Essentials Specialization

Instructor: AI CERTs Team
What you'll learn
Master Blockchain and EVM Basics: Understand accounts, transactions, blocks, gas, and how the Ethereum Virtual Machine executes smart contracts.
Build with Solidity: Write, test, and deploy smart contracts while working with storage, events, errors, modifiers, interfaces, and interactions.
Apply Secure Contract Patterns: Use access control, upgradeable proxies, reentrancy guards, and other patterns used in production smart contracts.
Test, Debug, and Optimize: Set up Hardhat and Foundry, write unit and integration tests, debug transaction traces, and improve gas efficiency.
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This course is part of the From Blocks to Build: Blockchain Dev Essentials Specialization
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