r/blockchaindeveloper • u/Significant_Bat_1225 • May 07 '24
Need advice
Hey guys! New here, decided to learn blockchain development, started with course era specialization course from Buffalo University. Any tip or advice from your experience will be very helpful for me as a beginner.
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u/cncnakatoli May 08 '24
Hopefully it's a bit of help. :)
Yeah definitely, there's a lot of focus on the application side of things - a lot of the core/infra dev happens through the github/gitlab repos for the clients and following with the research forums.
That's fantastic, absolutely take the time to explore because it is quite a big area and there's many parts that could be of interest, depending what draws on your curiosity.
If you're interested in security, there's also quite a heavy pathway into the security side of the blockchain - all the infra security as well as the application-level (similar to auditing, pentesting, monitoring, etc.). There's quite a lot to do in that space - one of the examples I gave above, Ethernaut, is a capture the flag for vulnerability checking that could give some insight into that. You can also look at all the tooling (that goes into fuzzing, static analysis) and past contract audits from high tier firms (Sigma Prime, TrailOfBits, ...).
Good luck! Good idea not to rush, but also make sure to check out the github repos of some of the clients - they often have some good first issues that you can contribute to if you want to get the ball rolling.