Frontier Conf: Create your own Ethereum ERC-721 Token

At the end of this workshop, you will be capable of writing your own production ready end-to-end dapps using cutting edge frameworks and best practices. This workshop will take a deep dive into the ERC-721 standard emphasizing tests, code coverage tools, and gas usage profilers to help us write optimal and secure code. We'll go over common Solidity pitfalls, known attacks, and the reasons behind community acknowledged best practices. In this course we'll be using popular frameworks such as OpenZeppelin, Truffle and Infura for faster development. This workshop is ideal for someone with a coding background who knows the basics about Ethereum and enjoys learning at a fast pace.

You will learn about Ethereum standards (ERC-20 and ERC-721) that allow you to create your own custom tokens, write an ERC-721 (non-fungible) smart contract from scratch, along with tests, learn to use powerful frameworks like OpenZeppelin, Truffle, and Infura, create a front-end UI to interact with web3 and your deployed contract.

The ERC-721 standard was first developed and implemented by CryptoKitties, the world’s most successful game on the blockchain. After this course, you will have a thorough understanding of how to create your own distinguishable assets on the blockchain, with potential use cases ranging from games, collectibles, art, or even identity, documents, records, and much more.

This course is taught by Elena Nadolinski, a software engineer at Airbnb and co-creator of Ethmoji.io. She has won prizes at multiple Ethereum hackathons — EthWaterloo for building decentralized video streaming on IPFS and World Crypto Economics Forum (WCEF) hackathon for building a crypto-collectibles token generator. Most recently, she was invited to the EthDenver hackathon to give a workshop on how to create your own ERC-721 tokens, which was attended by over 500 people.