Summary of Chialisp Training Camp
The Global Chia Hackathon officially opened for submissions on August 12. Sirius Labs, the organizer of the Hackathon, is contributing $500,000 to the prize pool. The winning team can win a final prize of up to $100,000, and the first 100 submitted qualified projects will have priority to win a limited edition NFT and seed round funding offers.
Sirius Labs has organized and summarized all the Chialisp tutorials and materials for developers to help familiarize themselves with the language and get started coding as soon as possible. This Hackathon is aimed to attract skilled teams to expand Chia’s ecosystem.
Communities for Global Chia Developers:
Hackathon Discord:
https://discord.gg/HrzDvV8XDx
Chia Official Keybase:
https://keybase.io/team/chia_network.public
Tips: you need to search #chialisp to join the channel
Wechat (limited to Asia):
Add SiriusLabs to get invited to the Hackathon groups
Special thanks to Chia Network for providing Chialisp tutorial videos, code examples and other reference materials for developers.
Summary of Chialisp Tutorials
The first video is about the smart coin model, the differences between the smart coin model and the smart contract model, the advantages of the smart coin model, and how this coin-centric approach is beneficial to the development of financial applications.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/jRyTNdqP07Y
The second video gives an overview of the concepts involved in developing applications on Chia, including CLVM which runs on the Chia blockchain, the high-level language Chialisp, the basic concept of Coins, what happens when you spend a Coin, etc.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/lh9spX6Qv8I
The third video explains how to set up the environment and download Chialisp-related tools. There is a package on Atom called language-chialisp, which provides syntax highlighting when users are writing Chialisp applications.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/y8Thrrw25rQ
The fourth video explains the Chialisp basics, including print, calling functions, using modules, looping over data, cons, building lists and recursion.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/JcC1_igwSmA
The fifth video is divided into 8 parts to explain the coin lifecycle and testing. The Chialisp expert gives a walk through on how to write a simple smart coin, how to secure a smart coin, how to write driver code, how to write smart coin tests and how to deploy a smart coin to the blockchain.
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The sixth video explains what Singletons are and how they are involved in creating Ethereum-like contracts in Chia.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/kA0l9n5SEI8
The last two tutorials teach you how to lock a coin with a custom puzzle and how to spend a coin using RPC.
Website Link: https://chialisp.com/docs/tutorials/custom_puzzle_lock
Website Link: https://chialisp.com/docs/tutorials/coin_spend_rpc
In addition, a Chialisp training camp was held between August 9 to August 11. To kick things off, Chia founder Bram Cohen talked about “Why Chialisp”. He mentioned that the advantages of Chialisp and the coin model are its reliability, auditability and scalability, etc. Then, the basic content of Chialisp was introduced in the form of text combined with code.
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/O0iae_-zXcs
In the first Q&A, Chialisp experts explain in detail the “Offer” feature of colored coins. “Offer” means that a user can create an unfinished transaction, and anyone who finds or sees the “Offer” can accept the “Offer” by making a transaction that finishes the other side.
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/gBWVbeB3qag
In the second Q&A, Chialisp experts explain the two types of announcements in Chialisp. They also shared how they started learning Chialisp and what they learned in pooling protocol.
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/JU26LlHAKWU
In the third Q&A, the Chilisp experts shared how they learned Chialisp’s working mechanism in the process of learning Chialisp. They also explained the potential problems contained in the “piggybank” example in the Chialisp teaching materials.
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/s85YJZEDMk0
In the last Q&A, two Chialisp experts respectively talked about their experiences of joining the Chia network and why they joined the Chia network. They also discussed how CLVM was developed and how CLVM and Chialisp try to avoid a potential fork that might be caused by technical debt.
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Hp0fpOUELu4
Learn more about the Global Chia Hackathon:
Website: SRS.vc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SiriusLabs_vc
Discord: https://discord.gg/6aa3BBmxVc
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiriusHacks
Github: https://github.com/SiriusHacks
Devpost: https://chiahackathon2021.devpost.com/
Dora Hacks-HackerLink: hackerlink.io/grant/Chia/1
References:
- Chialisp Tutorials: https://chialisp.com/docs/tutorials/why_chia_is_great
- Chialisp Training Camp Recordings on YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChFkJ3OAUvnHZdiQISWdWPA/featured
