Portia Burton provides a technical toolkit for blockchain startups. She recommends paying attention to key indicators like number of stars, commit frequency, and number of contributors when choosing an open source blockchain project. The toolkit includes Solidity for smart contract programming, Truffle as a development framework, and Glitch for prototyping without devops experience. Burton is available for contact on her website, Twitter, and Medium to help explain blockchain concepts.

1. Technical Toolkit for a
Blockchain Startup
Portia Burton
Blockchain Explainer
5/15/2018

2. Who Am I?

3. Portia Burton
Software Engineer
Founder of Blockchain Explainer

4. How Did I Get Into
Blockchain?

6. Stayed in Blockchain
because of the Community

8. Where Am I Now?

10. Common Technical Pain
Point of Clients

11. 1. Pick a blockchain that
only has a white paper

12. 2. Choose a project that is
beta only

13. 3. Adopt a project that has
poor documentation

14. 4. Side with a Project that
doesn’t commit code very
often

16. Cheat Sheet for
Non-technical Stakeholders

19. Important Parts to Pay Attention To:
❏ Number of Stars
❏ How Recent the Commits are
❏ Collective Number of Clicks
❏ How Many People are Actively Contributing

20. Congratulations!!! You are Now Ahead of 95% of
Your Competition

21. Now What about Your Technical Unicorns?

24. Ingredients That You Need
● Solidity- the programming language for
Ethereum
● Truffle- Smart contract framework
● Glitch- A community-oriented code editor

27. What Do You Get Out of Truffle?
❏ Web3
❏ Testnet
❏ Solidity Compiler
❏ Front-end already created

29. What the Heck is Glitch?
❏ Place where you can prototype apps
❏ Has a persistent database (for all of your non-smart contract needs)
❏ Easy-to-use deploy system, no devops experience needed

30. BONUS!

34. Where to Find Me
Website: www.blockchainexplainer.com
Twitter: @pkafei
Medium: https://medium.com/@chain_explainer

35. Sources
https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/v0.4.23/
http://truffleframework.com/
https://glitch.com/
https://www.uport.me/
https://github.com/