For multi-language auditors, this repo will be of a big help: github.com/crytic/building-s…

Ending the week with ~20 hours of auditing. I consider this as a good number, having in mind this week was buys at work spend some time working on my master thesis. Shoutout to @T1MOH which was my main inspiration to give the pomodoros technique a try.

Haven't posted in the last week as I was griding a @sherlockdefi contest, more specifically @plaza_finance . Getting back to learning until the end of this week and then back to contests and review stuff I missed! 💪

Day 41 and 42 of learning Web3 Time Spent: -@CyfrinUpdraft security course - finished up the first "Puppy Raffle" section now and went over the most known vulnerabilities presented there: ~2h -Mastering Etherum book - ~1h -secureum-mind_map Pitfalls and Best Practices 101, went over ~15 issues in the two days: ~1.5h -Owen Thurm advance security course, went over the reentrancy section to complement the stuff I learned from Cyfrin: ~1h Total time spent: ~5.5h

Day 39 and 40 of learning Web3 Time spent: - @CyfrinUpdraft security course - started the Puppy Raffle section and went through the first part introducing security tooling: ~1h - Mastering Ethereum book, read through the transaction section of the book: ~1h - Pitfalls and Best Practices 101, managed to cover ~10 issues from there: ~1h Total time: 3h A bit of slower days but I had a lot of work at my full time job and had to delegate it some attention. I also improved my sleeping schedule by going to bed early and getting up at ~7am so I can have some time to study in the morning.

DAY 38 of learning Web3 Time Spent: -Almost finished first Password audit section of the @CyfrinUpdraft Security course: ~1.5h -secureum-mind_map Pitfalls and Best Practices 101, went over ~15 issues and did a deep dive on them: ~1h -Watch a bit of Owen Thurm security course: ~1h Total time spent: ~3.5h

DAY 37 of learning Web3 Time spent: - Made it through the introduction section and halved the first password audit section of the @CyfrinUpdraft security course: ~2h -Mastering Ethereum book, spend a bit more on the wallet chapters as I watched a video on how the HD of keys works to grasp a better understanding: ~1h -Pitfalls and Best Practices 101, managed to go over 5-6 issues with a deep dive for details for each one: ~1h Total: ~4h

DAY 35 and 36 of learning Web3 Time spent: -Finished up @CyfrinUpdraft advance foundry course and moved on the security course first two sections: ~3.5h -Mastering Ethereum book, wallet chapter: ~30min -Secureum Pitfalls and Best Practice 101: ~1h Total: ~5h Forgot to post yesterday so I am including an aggregate of the two days today. I have now fully moved to studying security topics and will try to make my first competitive audit around the mid point of January.

DAY 34 of learning Web3 Time spent: -Finished account abstraction section of foundry course at @CyfrinUpdraft, planning to finish the course tomorrow and head full force in security topics for next week: ~1.5h -Mastering Ethereum book, read the cryptographic chapter. Was really interesting to have a look of how groups from algebra and derivatives from calculus can be used used in practice to generate public keys: ~1h Total: ~2.5h Was definitely a lot easier for me to go through this chapter of Mastering Ethereum book with a mathematical background. S Study your math kids!

Just got the results from my first audit in a competitive environment and managed to place in the top 3! I tried to provided a POC for all of my findings and a detailed description. Feeling satisfied for my first beginner friendly audit at @CodeHawks but the best is yet to come! Good work to all that took part in it.

DAY 33 of learning Web3 Time spent: -Account abstraction part of the Advance foundry course in @CyfrinUpdraft. Review the code I wrote yesterday and advanced to the ZkSync part of the section: ~1h -DeFi learning. Used some youtube resources and some of the UniswapV2 course from @CyfrinUpdraft: ~1h -Started the Pitfalls and Best Practices 101 section from secureum-mind_map: ~1h Total: ~3h Need to travel early in the morning tomorrow so I will continue after the travel and try to go over as much as I can as the next couple of days I will be off on vacation.

DAY 32 of learning Web3 Time spent: -Account abstraction part of the Advance foundry course in @CyfrinUpdraft: ~1h -Smart Contract Programmer playlist, DeFi topics: ~40mins -Mastering Ethereum book: ~30mins Total: ~2h and 10min Recovery day today, tomorrow we go full force again.

DAY 31 of learning Web3 Time spent: -Got to the Account abstraction part of the Advance foundry course in @CyfrinUpdraft: ~1.5h -Smart contract programmer playlist, finished all of the pure Solidity videos, staring DeFi and testing videos: ~40mins -Mastering Ethereum book: ~30mins -Other(Web3 security podcasts): ~30mins Total: ~3 hours I might stop off the gas a bit tomorrow and just do a light 1-2 hours study session as I've been feeling a bit tired in the last week trying to study in the late hours and not getting enough quality sleep.

Today marks exactly 30 days from when I first started learning web 3. Time spent: - @CyfrinUpdraft Blockchain basic Foundry basic courses: ~8h - @CyfrinUpdraft Foundry 101 Foundry Advance courses: ~20h - @CryptoZombiesHQ course: ~4h - Smart Contract Programmer playlist: ~5h - secureum-mind_map notes: ~4h - First Flight audits on @CodeHawks: ~4h - Mastering Ethereum book reading: ~2h - Learning Defi protocols ChatGPT checks for the difficult parts: ~3h Total: ~50 hours I am planning to start posting daily updates with the resources I go over and the time I've spent, and use it as a tidy log for all of my activity.

Sometime even as a senior software engineer I forget the most important lesson - don't overthink and overcomplicate things that you don't have to. Keep it simple!

Just started learning about Smart Contracts a week ago and I am already 20hours deep into it. Can't. Stop. Studying. @CyfrinUpdraft and @CryptoZombiesHQ are really cool!