Blockchain Engineer Onboarding Curriculum

Blockchain Onboarding

Curriculum

Proposed Curriculum for the first 4 weeks for a Blockchain Engineer working on the Stacks blockchain:

Week 1

• Bitcoin Whitepaper
• Ethereum vs Blockstack Apps Forum Post
• Stacks Whitepaper DRAFT v0.1

Required Reading

• Learn more about the Stacks blockchain and Subnets project

  • Proof of Transfer

  • Important SIPs (Stacks Proposals) that describe how the blockchain works

    • SIP-001: How block selection works
    • SIP-002: Smart contracts

  • Blockchain deep-dive video:

    Slides

    Blockchain Deep Dive

Week 2

Required Reading

• Consensus Algorithms
  • 2 Phase Commit
  • Raft protocol
    • https://raft.github.io
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(algorithm)
• More SIPs
  • SIP-007: Stacking Consensus
  • SIP-005: Blocks, Transactions, Accounts
  • SIP-006: Clarity Cost Assessment Analysis (very short)
• Clone repos
  • Stacks Blockchain
  • Subnets

Additional Resources:

• Rust Learning Resources
  • Rustlings - small exercises to get you familiar with Rust syntax quickly
  • Rust documentation
  • Rust Textbook - for more in-depth learning
  • Playground - run dummy code

Week 3

Required Reading

• SIPs
  • SIP-008 - Clarity Parsing and Analysis Cost Assessment
  • SIP-004 - Cryptographic Commitment to Materialized Views
  • SIP-015 pox-1 to pox-2
• Efficient Storage for Fork Aware Blockchains
• MARF Doc (unfinished)
• Blockchain Fridays Recording on MARF - password: CUP?AvZ8

Week 4

• Discount Mining