BADD Labs: Blockchain And Dapp Development Labs

Learning Objectives

• Application development skills on Ethereum.
• Deep understanding of blockchain internals (and development of blockchain extensions).

In particular, through our labs, you will gain hands-on experience on the following concepts/keywords:

• Blockchains: Transactions, fees, ledger, payments, smart contracts, Gas
• DeFi: DEX, lending,
• Financial attacks: arbitrage, MEV, frontrunning

Category A: Introductory Labs

• Lab A1. Exploring transactions [link]
• Lab A2. Smart-contract programming [link]
• Lab A3. Blockchain consensus on campus [link]

Category B: Smart Contracts & DeFi

• Lab B5. Reentrancy attacks and defense [link]
• Lab B6. ZK proofs and applications [link]
• Lab B1. AMM DEX ("Build-your-own-Uniswap" lab) [link]
• Lab B2. DEX and MEV (Arbitrage) [link]
• Lab B3. Orderbook DEX [link]

Course mapping

BADD Labs in the News

• BADD-labs workshop for teachers in UBCU and other universities: [Workshop website].
  • We wrapped up our workshop with a wonderful group of attendees from 12 HBCU institutions with disciplines in CS/CE, i-school, and management: [Group photo]
• The labs were used in "CIS/FIN629: Blockchain Foundations and Applications", a cross-listed course for graduate computer science students and finance students at Syracuse University (2018-2022) [Course website].
• Our labs are featured in blockchain education in ASEE 2022.
• Our labs are featured in the NSF blockchain-education workshop 2022.

BADD Labs in other Languages

We aim to bring BADD Labs to the International community and will translate it into different languages.

• Lab A1. Transaction exploration [Chinese version]

If you are willing to help translate BADD Labs to your language, contact us ([email protected]).

Acknowledgement

Development of BADD labs is supported by NSF grant award (SaTC:EDU, award number 2104532) [link] . We are grateful for NSF's support.