Day 2 - Reality Check & Readjustments
I started digging into rollups by reading Vitalik’s An Incomplete Guide to Rollups article. At a high level, the picture makes sense:On-chain smart contract: minimal, responsible for deposits, withdrawals, and proof verification.Off-chain computation: where the heavy lifting happens.That gave me a solid mental model. I also joined the zkSync Discord, shared what I was doing, and got pointed to their core/prover docs and community discussions. It felt like a signal that I’m in the right place....
Day 2 - Reality Check & Readjustments
I started digging into rollups by reading Vitalik’s An Incomplete Guide to Rollups article. At a high level, the picture makes sense:On-chain smart contract: minimal, responsible for deposits, withdrawals, and proof verification.Off-chain computation: where the heavy lifting happens.That gave me a solid mental model. I also joined the zkSync Discord, shared what I was doing, and got pointed to their core/prover docs and community discussions. It felt like a signal that I’m in the right place....
Day 1: Defining the goal — Learning Blockchain Infrastructure Development As A Novice Rust Developer
This is a continuation of my article Learning Blockchain Infrastructure Development As A Novice Rust Developer that described the inspiration for this journey.Day 1: Defining the goalI've been dabbling with frontend interfaces that interact with blockchains for a few years. I have an okay-ish understanding of how blockchains function. I even know a couple of buzzwords without knowing what they actually mean... but I've never really written a solidity smart contract or learned exactl...
Day 1: Defining the goal — Learning Blockchain Infrastructure Development As A Novice Rust Developer
This is a continuation of my article Learning Blockchain Infrastructure Development As A Novice Rust Developer that described the inspiration for this journey.Day 1: Defining the goalI've been dabbling with frontend interfaces that interact with blockchains for a few years. I have an okay-ish understanding of how blockchains function. I even know a couple of buzzwords without knowing what they actually mean... but I've never really written a solidity smart contract or learned exactl...
Learning Blockchain Infrastructure Development As A Novice Rust Developer
Day 0: InspirationLately, I've been feeling dissatisfied with my frontend dev job. For one, I feel like I'm severely underpaid ($2500/mo). Two, I don't feel bullish on the team's ability to raise funds or successfully bootstrap liquidity needed for the project. Here's why:I feel like my feedback falls on deaf ears.The team lacks focus and good judgment from the leadership.They consistently fail to triage problems, tasks, responsibilities and even goals are vague and u...
Learning Blockchain Infrastructure Development As A Novice Rust Developer
Day 0: InspirationLately, I've been feeling dissatisfied with my frontend dev job. For one, I feel like I'm severely underpaid ($2500/mo). Two, I don't feel bullish on the team's ability to raise funds or successfully bootstrap liquidity needed for the project. Here's why:I feel like my feedback falls on deaf ears.The team lacks focus and good judgment from the leadership.They consistently fail to triage problems, tasks, responsibilities and even goals are vague and u...
