A summary of the knowledge you need to know when choosing a blockchain for your business.

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/