Best of Blockchain — June 2024
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Venture Beat·2y
Web3 gaming hit Pixels announces Chapter 2 updates
Pixels, the largest Web3 game by daily active gamers, has announced the release of Chapter 2, bringing updates for resource generation, land progression, crafting mechanics, and new industries. Pixels aims for long-term sustainability with new features focused on incentive design, reward distribution, and MMO gameplay experiences. The game encourages community building and player feedback to shape its evolution, and plans for horizontal expansion to drive industry growth.
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The Hacker News·2y
How to Use Python to Build Secure Blockchain Applications
Developers can now build secure blockchain applications in Python using AlgoKit, a comprehensive toolkit for Algorand. Python offers readability, maintainability, and easy integration with other technologies. To get started, install prerequisites like Python, pipx, Git, and Docker, then use AlgoKit to set up a development environment, launch a local blockchain network, and create new projects. AlgoKit simplifies building, deploying, and testing dApps, making the development process more accessible and efficient.
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freeCodeCamp·2y
How to Build and Deploy a Smart Contract With Rust and the Gear Protocol
Learn how to build and deploy a smart contract using Rust and the Gear Protocol. Explore the role of Vara Network and Gear Protocol in making blockchain technology more user-friendly and secure for building and using decentralized apps. Understand the concept of message-based communication in Gear Protocol.
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Game Developers·2y
Looking for collaboration
A user is seeking collaborators for a new startup focused on creating a game with web3 elements like collectibles, blockchain, and tokens. They have the idea and game structure but require developers for execution. The user aims to direct the project and has access to a grant requiring a demo for funding.
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Coins Bench·2y
A Simple Explanation of Ethereum Gas and Fees
Understanding Ethereum gas and fees is crucial for efficient transactions on the network. Gas fees incentivize miners and validators, prevent spam, and manage network resources. Key components include gas price, gas limit, base fee, and priority fee, with the total fee calculated as Gas Used × (Base Fee + Priority Fee). The EIP-1559 update introduced a base fee burning mechanism to control supply and reduce inflation. Prioritizing transactions depends on network demand and appropriately setting the gas parameters helps ensure smooth operations.
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Learning to Call Smart Contract Functions with Web3.js
This post explains how to use web3.js to interact with smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. It covers topics such as integrating web3.js into a project, fetching contract address and ABI, instantiating a contract, reading from a contract, and paying to a contract. It also mentions how to listen to events emitted by a smart contract.
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Top Smart Contract Languages in 2024: Solidity, Rust, Motoko
This post discusses the top smart contract languages in 2024, including Solidity, Rust, and Motoko. Solidity is favored for its simplicity but has scalability and security limitations. Rust offers security and scalability, while Motoko is highly scalable and easy to use, although it has limited adoption.
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Building Blocks of Smart Contracts: Libraries in Solidity
Solidity libraries are tools for organizing and reusing code, promoting modularity, reusability, and gas efficiency in Ethereum smart contracts. Libraries differ from standard contracts in that they don't store state variables and focus on 'pure' and 'view' functions. They can be deployed either internally or externally, the latter using delegate call for efficient updates and reduced gas costs. Examples include SafeMath for safe arithmetic operations and MerkleProof for data integrity checks.
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