Code Your Own Cryptocurrency on the Ethereum Blockchain

Lately I have been very interested in learning solidity and have always been interested in learning how blockchain works behind the scenes.

A while a go, I stumbled upon Gregory from Dapp University and found several of his tutorials. They are extremely easy to understand and will give you a good grasp on the basics on how to create your own Ethereum cryptocurrency ERC20 token.

The video below is the full 7 hours and 57 minutes tutorial on how to create your own cryptocurrency! I didn’t even know seven hour videos were even possible on youtube.

This link here brings you to a playlist of this video cut into different segments. It might be easier to digest.

The full app code can be found on github.com/dappuniversity

Things that you will need for this tutorial

Table of Contents

Git for Windows

I tried using powershell on windows, but somehow the console didn’t want to work. If you are having the same problem then I suggest that you install Git for windows.

You can find it here

Node Package Manager (NPM)

http://nodejs.org/en/

You can find out if you have installed it by typing

$ node -v

Truffle Framework

The truffle Framework allows you to build decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain. It provides a collection of tools to write smart contracts with Solidity.

You can check your installation of truffle with the following command line:

$ npm install -g truffle