Blockchain fundamentals
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Understands consensus, cryptography, and distributed ledger architecture.
Course coverage
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Software development
Blockchain Developer
Builds decentralized applications and smart contracts on blockchain platforms, with security as a first-class concern.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
100%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 7
- Published coverage
- 7
- Relevant courses
- 9
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
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On-chain development
4 capabilities
Smart contracts
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Writes and tests contracts in languages like Solidity or Rust.
Course coverage
Smart contract security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Prevents and audits common vulnerabilities in on-chain code.
Course coverage
Token standards
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Implements token and NFT standards and their economic implications.
Course coverage
02
DApp engineering
3 capabilities
Web3 integration
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Connects frontends to chains through wallets, providers, and SDKs.
Course coverage
Off-chain infrastructure
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Designs indexers, oracles, and storage that complement on-chain logic.
Course coverage
Testing and deployment
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Tests contracts against forks and deploys through audited pipelines.
Course coverage
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
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