Smart Contracts & Ethereum
Programmable money and decentralized applications
Master Ethereum: the EVM, Solidity basics, gas economics, DeFi primitives, and the ERC-20/ERC-721 token standards that power the ecosystem.
Lessons
The Ethereum Virtual Machine
How the EVM executes smart contract bytecode deterministically across all nodes.
Solidity: Smart Contract Language
Variables, functions, state, events, and the Solidity execution model.
Gas and Transaction Fees
Why gas exists, how EIP-1559 works, and how to optimize contract costs.
ERC-20, ERC-721, and Token Standards
Fungible tokens, NFTs, and the interfaces that make composability possible.
DeFi Primitives
AMMs, liquidity pools, lending protocols, and how DeFi rebuilds traditional finance.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the EVM executes deterministic code
- Write and analyze basic Solidity smart contracts
- Explain gas pricing and EIP-1559's fee market mechanism
- Describe how AMMs and lending protocols function
Module exam
Smart Contracts & Ethereum Exam
3 questions · Pass to earn your certificate
Complete all lessons before taking the exam.