Short and sweet this time. The ERC20 token page is here and the code repository is here

I learned how to write Solidity smart contracts! This allows me to develop dApps, among other things. I thought, as my first Solidity project, it might make sense to create an ERC20 token, as it's a staple of the Ethereum blockchain. Well, making the token is the easy part (I encourage you to do so yourself - youtube guides this in just 30 minutes!)

The tricky part comes in understanding the contract, and being able to write other contracts to interact with your token. My Profile contract forces users to have registered profiles before trading my token. This is done by overriding the fundamental _update function in ERC20, and requiring registration through an interface with my Profile contract. In essence it's that simple! The Faucet contract is standard, and includes an adjustable 24 hour wait period between uses.

To connect these contracts to a website similar to what you are viewing now requires Web3js and MetaMask. There's a lot of work around error handeling here. One particularily stubbern bug to find was learning MetaMask's provider defaults to the mainnet, and since my contract is deployed on Sepolia (for now), it fails and returns a host of poorly documented errors. Anyway, the repo with my Solidity and Web3/Web2 js code is linked above if you want to check it out in more detail.

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