Ethereum development documentation
This documentation is designed to help you build with Ethereum. It covers Ethereum as a concept, explains the Ethereum tech stack, and documents advanced topics for more complex applications and use cases.
This is an open-source community effort, so feel free to suggest new topics, add new content, and provide examples wherever you think it might be helpful. All documentation can be edited via GitHub – if you're unsure how, follow these instructions.
Development modules
If this is your first attempt at Ethereum development, we recommend starting at the beginning and working your way through like a book.
Foundational topics
- Introducció a Ethereum – A quick overview of Ethereum
- Intro to Ether – A quick overview of Ether
- Introducció a les dapps – An introduction to decentralized applications
- Web2 vs Web3 – The fundamental differences that blockchain-based applications provide
- Comptes – Entities in the network that can hold a balance and send transactions
- Transaccions – Transfers and other actions that cause Ethereum's state to change
- Blocs – The way transactions are batched to ensure state is synchronised across all actors
- Màquina virtual d'Ethereum (MVE) – The EVM handles all the computation on the Ethereum network
- Gas – Computational power required to process transactions, paid for in ETH by transaction senders
- Nodes i clients – The individuals participating in the network and the software they run to verify transactions
- Xarxes – Implementations of Ethereum including test networks
- Mecanismes de consens – How the individual nodes of a distributed network agree on the current state of the system
Ethereum stack
- Introducció a la pila – An overview of the Ethereum/web3 stack
- Contractes intel·ligents – Programs that reside at an Ethereum address and run functions when triggered by transactions
- Llenguatges dels contractes intel·ligents
- Anatomia d'un contracte intel·ligent
- Biblioteques dels contractes intel·ligents
- Prova de contractes intel·ligents
- Compilació de contractes intel·ligents
- Implementació de contractes intel·ligents
- Verifying smart contracts
- Upgrading smart contracts
- Seguretat
- Smart contract formal verification
- Capacitat de composició
- Xarxes de desenvolupament – Local blockchain environments used to test dapps before deployment
- Frameworks de desenvolupament – Tools that make developing with Ethereum easier
- APIs de client Ethereum – Convenience libraries that allow your web app to interact with Ethereum and smart contracts
- Dades i anàlisis – How blockchain data is aggregated, organized and implemented into dapps
- Emmagatzematge – Decentralized storage structures and mechanism
- Entorns Integrats de Desenvolupament (EIDs) – The best environments to write dapp code
- Llenguatges de programació – How to get started with Ethereum using languages you may already know
Advanced
- Bridges – An overview of bridging for developers
- Estàndards – Agreed upon protocols for maintaining efficiency and accessibility of projects to the community
- Maximal extractable value (MEV) – How value is extracted from the Ethereum blockchain beyond the block reward
- Oracles – How information is injected into the Ethereum blockchain
- Escalant – Methods for preserving decentralization and security as Ethereum grows
- Data availability – docs-nav-data-availability-description
- Networking layer – Explanation of Ethereum's networking layer
- Data structures and encoding – Explanation of the data structures and encoding schema used across the Ethereum stack