Many ERC20 tokens allow for staking of other assets for a reward yield based on the amount of time staked. In smart contracts you can track the passage of time using block.timestamp which is the time since epoch measured in seconds. Measuring this…

When writing smart contracts that interact with price feed oracles or perform things like flash loans and flash swaps it can be useful to test your code using a mainnet fork. It is great as a final step in integration testing when you want to make…

NFTs are all the rage and thanks to standards like ERC-721 and libraries OpenZeppellin anyone can get an NFT smart contract deployed to the Ethereum mainnet with relative ease. A key part of any NFT drop is the minting function. This is the function…

I created this to document my journey through learning web3. I thought what better way to get started than to build and deploy this blog using web3 technologies.   Here is a quick rundown of some of the web3 infrastructure we will be using to host…