34 Article resources to learn Web3
34 resources
Ethereum Developer Docs
ethereum.org · Beginner · Articles
The Ethereum Foundation's own reference for how accounts, transactions, gas, and the EVM fit together.
What is Web3?
ethereum.org · Beginner · Articles
The Ethereum Foundation's plain-language explainer of what the term web3 is actually pointing at.
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
ethereum.org · Beginner · Articles
How NFTs work on Ethereum, the standards behind them, and where they show up outside of collectibles.
Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
ethereum.org · Beginner · Articles
What a DAO actually is on-chain, how proposals and voting work, and the tooling teams run them with.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
ethereum.org · Beginner · Articles
A tour of lending, exchanges, and yield products built on Ethereum without a central intermediary.
Decentralized Applications (dapps)
ethereum.org · Beginner · Articles
What separates a dapp from a normal web app, and the front-end plus on-chain pieces that make one up.
ERC-20 Token Standard
ethereum.org · Intermediate · Articles
The interface every fungible Ethereum token still implements, explained with the actual function signatures.
Solidity Documentation
soliditylang.org · Intermediate · Articles
The language's own reference for syntax, types, and the compiler behaviour every Solidity job assumes you know.
OpenZeppelin Contracts
OpenZeppelin · Intermediate · Articles
Documentation for the audited contract library most production Solidity teams build their own contracts on top of.
Smart Contract Best Practices
Consensys · Intermediate · Articles
Consensys's living checklist of the recurring smart-contract bugs and the patterns that prevent them.
Hardhat Documentation
Hardhat · Intermediate · Articles
Setup, testing, and deployment docs for the Ethereum development environment most Solidity jobs now expect.
Remix IDE Documentation
Remix · Beginner · Articles
How to write, compile, and deploy a Solidity contract from the browser with no local toolchain to install.
Solana Documentation
Solana · Beginner · Articles
Solana's own docs covering accounts, the runtime, and how to write and deploy your first on-chain program.
Anchor Framework Docs
Anchor · Intermediate · Articles
Reference docs for Anchor, the Rust framework most production Solana programs are written with.
Bitcoin Developer Guide
developer.bitcoin.org · Intermediate · Articles
Reference documentation for Bitcoin's peer-to-peer protocol, scripting system, and wallet formats.
Chainlink Documentation
Chainlink · Intermediate · Articles
Docs for the oracle network most DeFi and cross-chain contracts use to reach real-world data on-chain.
Polygon Developer Docs
Polygon · Intermediate · Articles
Official documentation for building on Polygon's chains, from PoS to the CDK and Agglayer stack.
Tezos Documentation
Tezos · Intermediate · Articles
The Tezos Foundation's docs on the protocol's on-chain governance and how to write and deploy contracts.
web3.py Documentation
web3.py · Intermediate · Articles
Reference docs for the Python library most backend services use to talk to Ethereum nodes and contracts.
Discord Developer Documentation
Discord · Intermediate · Articles
Docs for building bots and integrations on the chat platform most Web3 teams and communities run on daily.
Next.js Documentation
Next.js · Beginner · Articles
Vercel's official Next.js docs, the React framework most modern dapp front ends are shipped with.
react.dev
React · Beginner · Articles
The React team's own guide to components, state, and hooks - the base most dapp UIs are built from.
The TypeScript Handbook
TypeScript · Beginner · Articles
Microsoft's official TypeScript handbook, covering the type system most Web3 front-end and tooling code uses.
Node.js Documentation
Node.js · Beginner · Articles
Official Node.js docs for the runtime behind most indexers, bots, and backend services around a chain.
CSS on MDN
MDN Web Docs · Beginner · Articles
Mozilla's reference for the styling language behind every dapp front end, kept current with browser support notes.
The Python Tutorial
Python · Beginner · Articles
The official Python docs' own tutorial, a common starting point before scripting against a chain with web3.py.
The Java Tutorials
Oracle · Beginner · Articles
Oracle's own Java tutorials, still the reference point for the JVM tooling used in some enterprise chain integrations.
PHP Manual
PHP · Beginner · Articles
The official PHP language reference, still relevant for backend and admin tooling around some crypto platforms.
Ruby Documentation
ruby-lang.org · Beginner · Articles
The Ruby project's own documentation hub, covering the language used in some Web3 backend tooling.
Getting Started with Clojure
Clojure · Beginner · Articles
The Clojure project's own setup and language guide, for the Lisp occasionally used in chain tooling.
OpenAI Platform Documentation
OpenAI · Intermediate · Articles
Reference docs for building against GPT models - the tooling behind most AI copilots and chat features.
Prompt Engineering Guide
promptingguide.ai · Beginner · Articles
A structured, actively maintained guide to prompting techniques for large language models.
a16z crypto
a16z crypto · Intermediate · Articles
Research and market commentary from a16z's crypto arm, whose language shows up often in hiring posts.
Cryptocurrency Explained
Investopedia · Beginner · Articles
Investopedia's plain-language hub for how cryptocurrency fits into traditional finance concepts.