æcademy

Getting Started

We gathered a few resources to help you get started with æternity development.

Specific materials about oracles and state channles will be covered in the webinars that will be hosted during the first days of the haeckathon.

Before going into the tools you can get acquainted with the aeternity protocol by completing this quizz. Also have a look to dacade.org where you will find free intro materials to Blockchain and æternity.

Grab some popcorn and your laptop !

If you are new to aeternity development, and want to get prepared in advance, you might be interested in watching the webinars held at the Human DeFi Haeck held in November.

Intro to aeternity and use cases (1.5 hrs) Video Slides
Basic understanding of Sophia programming language (2hrs) Video Slides
Superhero under the hood (1 hr) Video Slides
Advanced Sophia + AEproject (2.5 Hrs) Video Slides 1 Slides 2
Ae Oracles + AEX9 fungible tokens (2 Hrs) Video Slides

Developer tools

Programming libraries are available. Any Javascript developer can build a simple æternity app in one day. For a quick start and reference, it is recommended to use the JavaScript SDK.

Node HTTP API

Hosted and auto-generated æternity Node API documentation

SDK Frontend APIs

JavaScript (recommended)

SDK documentation

æternal Backend API

æternal is a caching layer and API server for æternity. It is used to respond to queries faster than the node and to support queries that the node cannot support for efficiency reasons.

CLI - Command Line Client

Quickly test all of Aeternity’s blockchain features from your terminal, you can install and use our NodeJS CLI

Recheck.io SDK

Useful to accelerate the development of solutions which record, verify, share, sign and track data on the æternity blockchain

Safe Smart Contracts with Sophia

Sophia is a functional Smart Contract language in the ML family. It is strongly-typed and has a restricted mutable state. Sophia is a Ocaml-like language with syntax mostly resembling that of Reason.

The Sophia language was created to easily utilize the potentials of the æternity protocol. Some features of conventional languages, such as floating point arithmetics for example, are not present, while some blockchain-specific primitives, constructions, and types have been added.