Stay up to date as blockchain developer

If you want to stay up to date on all the research and development happening in the Blockchain space, you might find the following resources helpful. We read and listen to these regularly and can vouch for the quality of the content.

Podcasts

• https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/ - Anna and Frederik are incredible hosts, very knowledgeable, they ask really good questions and run a great podcast.
• http://www.thesmartestcontract.com/ - These podcasts are not super long, to the point plus Jefferey is a great interviewer.
• https://podcast.ethhub.io/ - Not super technical but enough to merit including it here. I learn a lot every time I listen.

Newsletters

• https://weekinethereumnews.com/ - If you want to follow what is going on in the world of Ethereum, you want to read this. Evan does a fantastic job of aggregating the most important topics.
• https://proofofwork.news/ - There is no better newsletter than this to get a quick overview of many projects in few minutes.
• https://tinyletter.com/smart-contract-security - If you are interested in security aspects of blockchain (you should be if you are or aspire to be a blockchain developer), you should definitely sign up to this one.
• https://zkcapital.substack.com/ - They curate papers from the field of security, scalability, token economics, privacy and so on.

Forums/Blogs

• https://ethresear.ch/ - This is a research forum. That means, not everything which is discussed sees the light of the day. But if you want to consume a firehose of ideas and discussions, this is a great place to hang out.
• https://medium.com/blockchannel - This covers a wide range of topics from various authors all focused on Blockchain.

If there are any good technical resources, please let us know hello@zastrin.com and we will try to include it.