This guide is intended to act as a tour of the Base ecosystem in order to help with technical ramping to the protocol. It is intended to be a crash course moving through major topics, providing links to articles and tutorials to help filter out the significant amount of noise one encounters when trying to learn how blockchain works for the first time. This is not exhaustive, but many of the resources referenced within the guide have additional content in their portals to go deeper once you have a functional understanding. All resources are free to access, and all time estimates are ScientificWildAssGuesses (SWAG).
The guide is intended to be read in the following order (but feel free to jump around as you see fit):
| Article | Description |
|---|---|
| Blockchain Basics | Background material that will help with understanding how blockchains work |
| Ethereum | Ethereum is the Layer 1 that Base is built on, and understanding how it works is critical |
| Smart Contracts and Solidity | Smart contracts let us codify onchain contracts and transactions, with Solidity being the most popular language they're written in |
| Base | Learn how Base was built on top of the Bedrock OP Stack |