
The EVM is a central part of Ethereum. It is Ethereum’s execution engine, responsible for executing Ethereum programs, also called Smart Contracts.

In this tutorial we are going to build the EVM from scratch. However, this is not a reference implementation. I will omit implementation details if I believe they are not necessary for understanding how the EVM works. This is about learning the core concepts of the EVM from first principles.

That is why I want to call it a mini-EVM. A working but simplified version of the real thing. A virtual machine that takes in an Ethereum program as input and executes that.


In this tutorial you are going to build the EVM from scratch.

Build the EVM from scratch


Ready to dive into smart contract development for the blockchain? With this practical guide, experienced engineers and beginners alike will quickly learn the entire process for building smart contracts for Ethereum--the open source blockchain-based distributed computing platform. You'llget up to speed with the fundamentals and quickly move into builder mode.

It's the perfect resource for people who want to break into the smart contract field but don't know where to start.

Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Solidity and Ethereum: From Fundamentals to Deployment


After Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin dropped out of college and launched Bitcoin Magazine, he wrote the Ethereum white paper, which proposed an open source protocol that would take what Bitcoin did for money and do it for everything else: contracts, social networks, and sharing economies. Now, less than a decade later, his idea is valued at about half a trillion dollars, and it is the foundation for the weird new world of NFT artworks, virtual real estate, and decentralized autonomous organizations.

This book is a collection of essays including "On Free Speech," which creates a whole new standard for free speech and how to protect it; "Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election," in which Buterin bets on the Trump-Biden election before and after it was decided, and how the prediction markets help explain the political situation today where so many believe Trump won; and the last essay in the book, "Crypto Cities," where Buterin observes the beginnings already in motion of a future where cities governed through blockchain better serve the public good than governing political institutions do today.

Understanding and engaging with Buterin's ideas will be of growing importance as the consequences of his invention continue to unfold and inspire debate worldwide.


The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains

Proof of Stake


Solidity Starters : A Beginners Friendly book 
Learn Smart contract development with solidity language, Fundamentals of solidity, Beginners guide to solidity & Ethereum blockchain programming 2022
Dive into the exciting world of blockchain development with Solidity, the programming language used by Ethereum.

Blockchain developers are in high demand these days, and the demand is only going to grow. But what skills do you need to become a blockchain developer? How can you start learning about the technology?

Learn to create and deploy your first smart contract and decentralized app.

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Create Web 3 dApps with solidity and use Data Structures to store data in a decentralized ledger.

This is a book for those interested in creating decentralized applications with Solidity, the programming language for smart contracts. You will learn how to create Dapps that store data in decentralized ledger.

This practical guide teaches budding Ethereum developers how to create smart contracts and DApps using Solidity.

This guide will help developers take their first steps in the decentralized world of Ethereum development, teaching them how to create smart contracts and DApps using Solidity, the programming language for Ethereum.

Covers the latest version of Solidity,Build decentralised applications that cannot be censored or shut down.

With the rise of the internet, we have seen an increase in the use of centralised applications. This has led to many security and censorship problems. Decentralised applications are a solution to these issues. Decentralised applications are typically open-source, have transparent data sharing and management systems, have a consensus mechanism for content submission, allow for privacy and anonymity of users, and do not rely


After finishing this Book, You will have a solid foundation in Solidity and a high degree of experience, allowing you to start creating and quickly expanding your knowledge.


A Beginners Friendly book to Learn Smart contract development with solidity language, Fundamentals of solidity, Beginners guide to solidity & Ethereum blockchain programming 2022.

Solidity Starters: A Beginners Friendly book


More and more DeFi projects on Ethereum are getting hacked. This is your chance to join the party.

Each challenge can be considered standalone. Depending on the challenge, you should either stop the system from working, steal as much funds as you can, or do some other unexpected things.

Put your black hat on, and break some DeFi projects on Ethereum!

Damn Vulnerable DeFi


In October 2016, the Berkeley Bitcoin Association, a group of about a dozen members, founded Blockchain at Berkeley, an organization dedicated to becoming the blockchain hub of the East Bay. They also debuted the world’s first undergraduate university-accredited blockchain course, Blockchain Fundamentals, taught to about 50 students. Alongside Blockchain at Berkeley’s education team grew a consultancy that aimed to bridge the gap between geeky bitcoin enthusiasts and technovative early-adopters in the industry to develop Proof-of-Concepts for disruptive blockchain use cases. Since then, as a result of other ambitious B@B members, R&D and Design departments have also emerged.

Join over 150,000 students in earning our renowned BerkeleyX Blockchain Fundamentals Professional Certificate, with our free online course series.

Blockchain @ Berkeley


Blockchain is an exciting new discipline in Computer Science. It combines a wide array of skills from math and cryptography to social sciences and understanding organizations. Understanding blockchain decentralization and how/where to apply it is a brand new skill that very few have mastered.

You will build your skills from the ground up with strong fundamentals that will provide you with the ability to adapt in this rapidly evolving ecosystem.

Choose From Multiple Paths to Begin Your Ethereum Coding Journey.

Fast-track your Ethereum Developer career in an instructor-led and challenging bootcamp focused on discussion and application!

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Learn the basics of Solidity: the language to create smart contracts.

Introduction to Smart Contracts


Blockchain Foundation Program
Ethereum Fundamental Courses
Certified Blockchain Associate Program
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Kerala Blockchain Academy (KBA) offers training programs, consultancy services, and research activities in multiple domains of Blockchain Technology

Kerala Blockchain Academy


Questbook is a decentralized university where learning is always free. We enable with our cryptoeconomics and a native erc20 coin that powers the ecosystem. 

Wikipedia is where the world collaborates on facts, StackOverflow is where the world collaborates on technical question answers, but where does the world collaborate on great tutorials? That is the gap that Questbook fills. All the content is created collaboratively by the community and contributors are compensated by tokens from Questbook and other retroactive grants. 

Questbook will train the next 10 Million web3 developers not only with bite sized content created by the community but also by making it accessible on a mobile phone. Users will be able to learn and write web3 programming directly from a mobile phone. No need for a laptop. This unlocks a huge market in India, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America where many people don’t have access to a laptop - but have a mobile phone. But, it also allows those with access to be able to learn on the go.


Self paced tutorials to learn Web3 by building

Questbook

Explore the minds of world-class web3 hackers, smart contract protocol developers, startup founders, and cybersecurity specialists

Scraping Bits


Whether you’re starting out developing your first smart contract, or you’ve already written and deployed a few of them, there’s going to be a point where you’ll wonder how the interaction with your smart contracts is made possible. In this post we’re going to explore ABI encoding, the encoding format used to talk to an EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) to execute smart contract functions.

This will be a bit of a deep dive and fairly interactive, so buckle up.
I hope you’ll enjoy it!

Learn to read and understand EVM calldata

ABI Encoding and EVM Calldata demystified


From time to time, I receive messages asking me for advice on how to get started as a smart contract security auditor. While there are already articles written about this topic, most of them are just a collection of security-related articles which they throw at beginners, overwhelming them. I’ll provide a path that I would take if I had to do it all over again. This will be ETH specific (or more general EVM-specific) as most auditing work is currently still in this ecosystem.

At the end, I’ll also go over frequently asked questions that are related to auditing and getting your first job.

This guide provides a path on how to get started as a smart contract security auditor.

Become a smart contract auditor


I don’t know about you dear reader, but I hate reading research papers. They are overly complex, introduce inhuman scribbles called “scientific notation” and are pain to read. So, I won’t go through Ethereum yellow paper, but rather we’ll go deep into go-ethereum - Ethereum execution client implementation in Go language.

Dissecting EVM using go-ethereum - Part 1

Dissecting EVM using go-ethereum - Part 2

Dissecting EVM using go-ethereum - Part 3


Have you ever wondered what lies under the hood of the Ethereum network? How the transaction is made. How the data was passing around. And what is it made of?

This blog is intended to be a very basic introduction to how to look at Ethereum Calldata (Or any other EVM based Calldata) we're going to look at how it structures, what it keeps, and how it can be categorized into what ways.

The highlight of this article is we will also be revealing how to generate Ethereum Calldata without writing a single line of code - the Laika🐶 way!


This article explains what Ethereum Calldata is and how it's structured.

Get to know Ethereum Calldata

We review use cases and implications of Meta-Transactions.

How does Ethereum Manage Data


In this blog post, I’m going to cover the first scaffold-eth speed run project: creating a Staking dApp. If you want to know more about scaffold-eth and my current journey in the web3 world you should read my previous article: My journey in Web3 development: scaffold-eth.

The goal of the dApp
The end goal of the project is to mimic the Ethereum 2.0 staking contract. The requirements are pretty simple:
- allow anyone to stack ether and track their balance
- if a time and stack amount deadline have reached don’t allow - users to withdraw their fund (those found are used for a future project, like the Ethereum PoS)

A collection of EVM puzzles. Each puzzle consists on sending a successful transaction to a contract. The bytecode of the contract is provided, and you need to fill the transaction data that won’t revert the execution.

Let’s play EVM Puzzles


We'll walkthrough each encounter you will face by learning deal with them using bitwise operations alongside SLOAD and SSTORE to control the EVMs storage at will.

### Storage

Storage is a persistent mapping with 2^256 - 1 available 32 byte words for each contract. When you set a state variable’s value it stores it at the assigned slot where it will remain in the EVM unless overridden with another value of the same type.


Learn how the EVMs storage system works by interacting with it through smart contracts using solidity's inline assembly/yul, taking you a step closer to bridging the gap between high and low level programming!

A Low-Level Guide To Solidity's Storage Management


Computational processes on the Ethereum blockchain are very expensive. The gas usage in executing a transaction depends on the complexity of the function that initiates it and the demand for transaction processing on the blockchain.

How Gas Optimization Can Streamline Your Smart Contracts

Maximizing Efficiency

Noxx


Let me take you into the depths of the dark forest, where bleeding-edge smart contract bytecode obfuscation techniques are developed to keep your secrets hidden for longer.

How do you prevent MEV frontrunners from stealing your transactions, copying your smart contracts and understanding your strategies built into your smart contracts on-chain?

Smart Contract Obfuscation Techniques


The SMTChecker is a formal verification module inside the Solidity compiler. Historically it has been complicated to run the SMTChecker on your own contracts, since you had to compile the compiler with an SMT/Horn solver, usually z3. We have been working on different solutions to this, and nowadays it is quite easy to run it.

Using SMTChecker formal verification module in Solidity compiler with  Remix & Dapptools

SMTChecker, Remix & Dapptools


In this article we will look at the fourth data location of the EVM: the stack.

Exploring the EVM stack machine, and how pushing and popping this in and out of the stack work.

Solidity Tutorial: All About Stack


If you have ever tried to understand and read about EVM before, you might have come across different ways in which EVM is defined. For instance:

- EVM is a Virtual Machine …
- EVM is a State Machine …
- EVM is a Quasi-Turing complete machine…

The Ethereum Virtual Machine can simply be understood as an isolated environment specifically designed to process smart contract transactions as well as, most importantly, determine the overall state of the Ethereum blockchain with every new block that gets mined.

EVM Part I: The ABCs of Ethereum Virtual Machine


Solidity is a special language with many little quirks. A lot of things behave differently in Solidity than most other languages as Solidity is created to work on the EVM with its limited feature set. I wrote a blog post with ten tips to save gas in Solidity a few months back and it got a great response. Since then, I have gathered more tips and tricks to share with you all.

Solidity tips and tricks to save gas and reduce bytecode size

Tips and tricks to save gas

Ethereum Explained: The EVM


In this video, I will guide you through the basics of the EVM, including its architecture, execution model, and bytecode. You'll learn how to write and deploy smart contracts using Solidity, and underlying working of EVM. This crash course is designed to be accessible to beginners, but also covers advanced topics. Whether you're a software engineer, blockchain enthusiast, or just curious about the inner workings of Ethereum, this video has something for you.

Welcome to the complete EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) crash course, presented by Uttam Singh

Ethereum Virtual Machine - Crash Course


During this SmartCon presentation, Chainlink Labs’ Alex Roan walks smart contract developers through the intricacies of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)—from how EVM treats data to various tricks that help devs write more secure and scalable smart contracts.  

A walk-through of the intricacies of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)—from how EVM treats data to various tricks that help devs write more secure and scalable smart contracts.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the EVM


Every valid public address can receive an ERC20 token/coin. That's really powerful because your smart contracts can receive and hold coins as well. In this video, I will show you how to allow your smart contract to actually transfer any ERC20 token that your contract received. 


Learn how to allow your smart contract to transfer any ERC20 token that your contract received.

Transfer any ERC20 token from your smart contract


We go through the how to make a ton of API calls to our blockchain node with 1 single API call to a multicall contract. We learn how we can keep our API calls low, and be more efficient overall. 

How to make a ton of API calls to our blockchain node with 1 single API call to a multicall contract. We learn how we can keep our API calls low, and be more efficient overall.

What is Multicall?


ZkBlock develops content, tools and dapps for zero knowledge proofs, smart contracts, ethereum (& L2), web3 apps and cryptography. https://zkblock.app/


Learn how does a zk voting work? How to create one using zkblock.app?

Using a simple zk voting dapp


An updated version of the EVM reference page at ethervm.io

A quick reference for EVM opcodes


Nowadays there are countless well-made resources on how to learn blockchain development of all kinds and with different specializations in mind, however, it is still very hard to get guidance and personalized suggestions based on your interests. I am writing this guide in order to provide an aggregator of all the resources that I’ve found over the years, plus give some opinionated commentary on how to approach them and how to use them in order to maximize learning and practical understanding in order to get building cool things in the space as soon as possible.

This guide will focus on the Ethereum ecosystem as that’s where most developers and applications are. If you are interested in other ecosystems that are non-EVM compatible and are not L2s on Ethereum, then check out their respective documentation or guides written by their developer communities. Examples of other non-EVM compatible blockchains that are popular are Solana (Rust/Anchor), Polkadot (Rust/Substrate), Cosmos, Terra, and others. Most of these blockchains do or will support the EVM stack through various initiatives like Neon EVM (Solana), Moonbeam/Moonriver (Polkadot/Kusama), EVMOS (Cosmos), etc.

I really want this guide to become a community-sourced public good that everyone will be able to take advantage of. I will do my best to present it to the wider blockchain developer community to get constructive feedback, proofreading help, and insight into how to make it the best available guide available.

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ethereum.org is here to help you build with Ethereum with documentation on foundational concepts as well as the development stack. Plus there are tutorials to get you up and running.

Inspired by the Mozilla Developer Network, we thought Ethereum needed a place to house great developer content and resources. Like our friends at Mozilla, everything here is open-source and ready for you to extend and improve.

A builders manual for Ethereum. By builders, for builders.

Ethereum.org Developer portal


For users of Ethereum, the decentralized application platform and smart contract enabled blockchain

Ethereum StackExchange


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An interactive reference to  Ethereum Virtual Machine Opcodes

EVM Codes

A curated list of EVM resources for aspiring shadowy super coders.

The EVM Handbook


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An extensible Python implementation of the Ethereum yellow paper from scratch.

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