Well, it's been a while since I've coded for fun... that's it really
Coming back from Devconnect in November, I saw a tonne of cool crypto tech being built and thought there's no better time for me to develop and explore it as the year ends. Crypto moves at the speed of light and the best way to keep up is to get invovled and get my hands dirty. This is my way of being close to the tech 🛠️
With most of my programming experience in python, focused on data science & ML, I used to be a Python maxi (lol) building ML models and data pipelines and 90% of my code was written in Jupyter Notebooks. Later built some frontend (JS & React) for Caddi and hackathons but never gone too deep with smart contract engineering and EVM. That is going to change this month, this is the point!
It's been a while since I've worked on new projects and coded for the hell of it so this is going to be fun,LFG 💪
Still building https://www.caddi.fi full time, expect to see overlaps with what I'm exploring here and what we build with Caddi 📈
If you are interested in having a chat with me about any of these repos, interested in collaborating, or want to find out more about Caddi, then reach out via TG https://t.me/jaimin_building 🫡
I'll log my progress daily in this repo and point to any repos I create during the sprint
Started on some Node Guardians quests to learn about EVM and gas, worked through Storage and Gas Optimizations quests
MEV - Searching Strategies using Blocknative docs To get an understanding of how Mempools work and how to access transactions that I'm forwarding there.
Gas monitoring Chrome extension, it uses the blocknative API to monitor gas prices and shows it from the icon on the broswer extension. It's Typescript and should be able to be deployed on both Chrome and Firefox
Set up a simple python flask server and client communicating through Heroku, Heroku is nice 👍
Using covalent's api and typescript to track portfolio balance, need to get a Zerion api
Node Guardians - gas optimizing solidity contracts
Messing around with bridging using Socket's API
Creating a general purpose dApp to use for testing
Started putting in socket's single tx quote and swap into the starter_dapp. Not quite working yet, will try to copy more code out the box and get it working there.
Got my starter dapp working with Wagmi and used Ethers to initiate briging USDC from Polygon to BNB chain for Socket, handling for approvals. Seems to be working fine :)
Node Guardians - delegate call action: solved quest to prove if the function call was a delegate call or not by writing the immutable contract deployment address into the constructor
Messed around with a browser extension to inject objects into web frontends of browser extensions
Minted an NFT using NiftyKit and their diamond contract. Got it working on the starter dapp. Doing some tweaks for Caddi
Working on transaction simulation using Enso Temper. Simulated transactions on ETH Mainnet, now trying the same for Polygon
NFT minting work, Caddi onboarding coming soon ⛳️ 👀 Ensuring mint works with Soulbound Tokens
Transcation simulation via API using Tenderly to simulate transations across multiple blockchains
Mostly Caddi coding for our new onboarding and NFT mint
Tenderly simulations working for approvals and swaps :)
Did a bit of work on the simulation framework for enso temper to simluate polygon transactions, gas units are hard 😅
Working on the portfolio tracker, quick setup with portals API to track multichain portfolio and summarize in charts, also using Alchemy for token balances, no $ price with Alchemy though
Testing out on-chain perp trading API's Hyperliquid and Aevo, using python to place trade, was able to get Aevo on testnet with API Keys, Secrets and generate a signer but was hitting errors (in Python) with placing orders
Also started to use Brownie, getting working wtih Ganache
Upgraded my AI coding stack with cursor.so, also started to use modal to make any function serverless, and run remotely. Super easy to set up and cursor (VSCode fork with better integrated GPT) looks like alpha. Did some work on the new Caddi onboarding flow
Caddi changes to our onboarding flow
Started on a blog post about Devcember
Trying Mev Frontrunning repo:
Bridging arc restarted, diving into across and how the contracts work as well as their frontend. Will try ot replace these contracts with another bridge
Testing deBridge and Across SDKs, integrating cross chains swaps to starter dApp
- https://github.com/jaimindp/across-frontend-v2
- https://github.com/jaimindp/bridgooor
- https://github.com/jaimindp/starter_dapp
For support for bridging, using LiFi's API to get the support bridge tokens across 19 chains
Some frontend injections for gas price extension
Working on some fun stuff for Caddi, had to take a repo private. It's going to be a degen 2024
Got back into smart contracting with Node Guardians, did proxy the proxy contract quest
Node guardians, more proxy contracts and gas optimization
Fixed some of the Caddi onboarding flow with the mint + Deployed some testnet contracts to try out cow's Programmatic Order Framework on Goerli for cool trading features 🐮 https://github.com/jaimindp/composable-cow-orders
NFT launch edits and started to use scaffold ETH 2 https://github.com/jaimindp/scaffold.git
Node guardians OpenZepplin proxy contracts upgrading ERC-721s
Learnt basic Yul Assembly with Node Guardians quests, worked on Caddi social feature 👀
Did a bit of Caddi engineering on Caddi social
Did a bit of Caddi engineering on Caddi social, but Christmas day and fam time
Caddi social + Backend DB integration
Caddi Social, getting closer
Caddi extension work with Caddi social
Caddi degen social feature, getting closer to prod
Caddi degrnbox V0 backend and frontend shipped and ready for integration with extension 🫡
I probably won't get round to half of these ideas but here are some of the things I intend to explore.
- Node Guardians Tutorials for a more fundamental understanding of EVM
- Build boilerplate code for testing out new repos and trying out new projects from the smart contract and frontend side
- CoWswap
- Programmatic Order Framework
- DCA/TWAP
- Conditional orders
- CoWswap Hooks
- Uniswap
- Deploy an LP pool with Hooks
- Explore V4
- AA 4337 wallets
- SAFE wallet SDK
- Biconomy with Rhinestone
- Session key management
- Tokenbound accounts 6551
- Create a Marketplace
- Fractionalise the NFT for this marketplace
- Create a NFT collection
- Build an interface for Ambient DEX
- Do some Caddi integrations 👀
- Interface for perp dexes and aggregators (Hyperliquid, Aevo, Vertex, MUX, LogX, RageTrade)
- Build a GPT interface to execute smart contracts from natual language
- On chain notifications
- From scratch
- With Hal
- Push
- Integrate Oracles
- Integrate different bridges and bridge aggregators
- MEV
- Run searching strategies (frontrunning and sandwich analysis)
- Get familiar with mempools
- Frontrunning searching strategies
- Intent architectures
- 1inch Fusion API exploration
- Suave
- Browser extensions 😀
- Connect wallet with both Metamask and Walletconnect
- Landing page of extension
- Interactive injections to a webpage
- Browser icon add flavour
- Build a good portfolio tracker
- Using APIs (Coingecko, De.fi, covalent, defillama, coinmarketcap, debank, Portals, Alchemy RPC)
- Using Blockchain data directly
- Simulate any EVM transaction
- Enso Temper
- Tenderly
- Json RPC calls
- Rapidly build server/client websockets connections and APIs
- TG Miniapp to send payments from CEX accounts
- Write a simple TON app using funC
- MetaMask snap
- To report recent transactions of the same token
- To look at frontrunnable value
- Perp Aggs
- Build a bridge