Technical toolkit for a blockchain startup
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Portia Burton provides a technical toolkit for blockchain startups. She recommends paying attention to key indicators like number of stars, commit frequency, and number of contributors when choosing an open source blockchain project. The toolkit includes Solidity for smart contract programming, Truffle as a development framework, and Glitch for prototyping without devops experience. Burton is available for contact on her website, Twitter, and Medium to help explain blockchain concepts.
Technical toolkit for a blockchain startup
- 1. Technical Toolkit for a Blockchain Startup Portia Burton Blockchain Explainer 5/15/2018
- 2. Who Am I?
- 3. Portia Burton Software Engineer Founder of Blockchain Explainer
- 4. How Did I Get Into Blockchain?
- 6. Stayed in Blockchain because of the Community
- 8. Where Am I Now?
- 10. Common Technical Pain Point of Clients
- 11. 1. Pick a blockchain that only has a white paper
- 12. 2. Choose a project that is beta only
- 13. 3. Adopt a project that has poor documentation
- 14. 4. Side with a Project that doesn’t commit code very often
- 16. Cheat Sheet for Non-technical Stakeholders
- 19. Important Parts to Pay Attention To: ❏ Number of Stars ❏ How Recent the Commits are ❏ Collective Number of Clicks ❏ How Many People are Actively Contributing
- 20. Congratulations!!! You are Now Ahead of 95% of Your Competition
- 21. Now What about Your Technical Unicorns?
- 24. Ingredients That You Need ● Solidity- the programming language for Ethereum ● Truffle- Smart contract framework ● Glitch- A community-oriented code editor
- 27. What Do You Get Out of Truffle? ❏ Web3 ❏ Testnet ❏ Solidity Compiler ❏ Front-end already created
- 29. What the Heck is Glitch? ❏ Place where you can prototype apps ❏ Has a persistent database (for all of your non-smart contract needs) ❏ Easy-to-use deploy system, no devops experience needed
- 30. BONUS!
- 34. Where to Find Me Website: www.blockchainexplainer.com Twitter: @pkafei Medium: https://medium.com/@chain_explainer