E6998 Engineering Blockchain and Web3 Apps

Fall 2023 -- Junfeng Yang

Due Dates

All assignments are due at 11:59 PM New York local time on the corresponding due dates. The solutions should be submitted to CourseWorks.

# Assignment Due Date Graded?
1 Sign course policies 9/11 Not graded but required
2 Programming assignment on Merkle tree 9/18 Yes
3 Problem set #1 9/25 Yes
4 Finalize project teams 9/25 Not graded but required
5 Programming assignment on Bitcoin 10/2 Yes
6 Project proposal 10/9 Yes
7 Problem set #2 10/16 Yes
8 Programming assignment on Ethereum 10/30 Yes
9 Problem set #3 11/13 Yes
10 Programming assignment on decentralized exchange 11/27 Yes
11 Demo your final project 12/4 Yes
12 Submit your final project 12/18 Yes

Assignments

1. Sign course policies (required but not graded)

The goal of this assignment is to agree to the course collaboration / copying policy. Please sign by adding your name, UNI, and date to the following text and submit it as signed_collaboration_policy.txt to the corresponding assignment in CourseWorks.


        I have read and understood the following documents:

          1. CS department's Policies and Procedures regarding Academic Honesty;
          2. Columbia College and Columbia Engineering’s Academic Integrity website; and
          3. The policies of this course.

        I pledge that I will abide by the rules set forth by the documents, and
        that I will accept the corresponding penalties if I fail to do so.

        I also pledge that I will never post any Course Materials to public code
        repositories or web sites like GitHub, CourseHero, etc., nor will I
        share Course Materials privately with any person who may take the same
        class in the future.  I understand Course Materials include, but are not
        limited to, my own code, skeleton and solution code I received, lecture
        notes, and exams and solutions.

        Name:
        UNI:
        Date:
      

2. Programming assignment: Merkle trees in Python

Instructions and starter code.

3. Problem set #1

Complete Problem set #1.

4. Finalize project teams (required but not graded)

Finalize your project team. Your team should have three members. Fill the following form and submit it as a team.txt file to the corresponding assignment in CourseWorks.


        Member 1 Name:
        Member 1 UNI:
        Member 2 Name:
        Member 2 UNI:
        Member 3 Name:
        Member 3 UNI:
      

5. Programming assignment: Perform Bitcoin transactions using python-bitcoinlib

Instructions and starter code.

6. Project proposal.

Submit a your project proposal as a proposal.txt file to the corresponding assignment in CourseWorks. It should have the following contents:


      Title: tagline of your project, such as "CertiK: Securing The Web3 World"
      Details:
          - Team members (name and UNI for each teammate)
          - Pain points you're addressing
          - How your project addresses the pain points and why Web3 is the best
            solution for the problem
          - Why your project is unique/different from existing solutions
      

A few paragraphs are enough. No need to write a detailed business plan. Submit any additional materials such as a presentation deck you may have.

Only one member of the team needs to submit. Be sure to include in the README the names and UNIs of all team members.

After the submission, post your proposal to the course discussion board and prefix the post title with "[Project Proposal]..." for the entire class to learn what you plan to do and provide feedback.

Grading rubric:

7. Problem set #2

Complete Problem set #2.

8. Programming assignment: An Ethereum payment app

Instructions and starter code.

9. Problem set #3

Complete Problem set #3.

10. Programming assignment: Building a decentralized exchange (DEX)

Instructions and starter code.

11. Demo your final project

Prepare a short demo video of your project. Submit a link to the video, a deployment link (deployment to a test network suffices), and the presentation deck to the corresponding assignment in CourseWorks. The demo video will be played in class during our Demo Day. The length of the video will be determined based on the total number of projects. Everyone in the group has to speak approximately equally. If time allows, we will conduct a quick Q/A session for each team. Submit any additional materials such as usage curves you may have.

Only one member of the team needs to submit. Be sure to include in README the names and UNIs of all team members.

After the submission, but before Demo Day, post your demo video to the course discussion board and prefix the post title with "[Project Demo]..." for the entire class to appreciate what you have built and provide feedback.

Grading rubric:

12. Submit your final project

Submit the final version of your project to the corresponding assignment in CourseWorks. Only one member of the team needs to submit. Be sure to include in README the names and UNIs of all team members. Your submission should include

Grading rubric: