Stacksmith #8: Debugging Your Smart Contracts

Also AlgoKit developer suite, Ajuna's experience with Polkadot, and Solana Sandstorm hackathon projects.

Hello You Beautiful Builders!

Don't you just love debugging code? Isn't it the most fun? No. No one likes this phase of development, but it's a crucial step to launching any dApp. Taking the time to thoroughly debug your Web3 apps prevents mistakes and keeps your users safer. 

Thankfully there are a lot of tools out there to make this easier!

Thanks!

@mikehale

Guide to Debugging Smart Contracts

Debugging a smart contract helps mitigate risks like unexpected behavior, coding errors, and even security flaws introduced during the development phase.

This article covers common Ethereum smart contract errors with examples, and introduces some handy tools for debugging. 

The Ultimate Guide to Debugging Smart Contracts: Tips and Tools for Web3 Developers

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AlgoKit for Algorand Developers

AlgoKit, now available in a public beta, is a software development kit intended to be the one-stop shop for Algorand developers.

AlgoKit makes it quick and easy for developers to run and interact with a local Algorand sandbox, and to build, test and deploy PyTEAL smart contracts.

AlgoKit for Algorand Developers (GitHub)

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Building With Substrate & Polkadot

Ajuna Network, a decentralized gaming platform on Polkadot, shares why they decided to launch on Polkadot and build with Substrate, and how they leverage Polkadot's shared security. 

Ajuna Network: Our Experience Building With Substrate & Polkadot

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Inside Solana Sandstorm

Solana Sandstorm Hackathon was the first ever community run Solana-based hackathon hosted by Helius and LamportDAO.

Superteam dives into the Sandstorm hackathon 220+ submissions and walks you through some of their favorite projects. 

Superteam

is a DAO that promotes the Solana ecosystem and educates developers in the ascending world like India, South East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa.

Inside Solana Sandstorm

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From the Twitters 

Matt Solomon @msolomon44

Foundry and solidity best practices were recently released, strongly recommended reading through them Ethereum development changes quickly so I suspect these will evolve over time. Feedback is definitely welcome A few highlights below, read them all at:

book.getfoundry.shFoundry BookA book on all things Foundry

Hello Moon 🥷 @HelloMoon_io

We are excited to launch the Hello Moon Developer Platform 🥳🥳🥳 Engage directly with on-chain Solana data (at Solana speeds) to build new dApps, analytics platforms, and more Build with us hellomoon.io/developers

ImpulseDAO🪩 @Impulse_dao

What's Impulse DAO? 🧭 Mission To make a contribution to the Web3 Rust learning curve by building games for developers that motivate and engage learners. 🔭 Vision Impulse DAO is a Web3 Rust-centric DAO; a place for Rust developers to have fun, compete and share knowledge.

the.tap.in @bigtimetapin

Got around to publishing a scaffold for full-stack @solana development with @anchorlang and @elmlang. For those curious of the dev experience outside of @reactjs this is a really fun & productive alternative.

github.comGitHub - bigtimetapin/solana-elm: Solana full-stack scaffold with Elm-langSolana full-stack scaffold with Elm-lang. Contribute to bigtimetapin/solana-elm development by creating an account on GitHub.

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