# Dapp-Learning: A Repository of Tutorial Projects for Ethereum Development > Dapp-Learning is a nonprofit, DAO-governed collection of step-by-step blockchain practice projects aimed at junior and advanced developers. It ships tutorials and study material, not a library you install into an application. **Dapp-Learning-DAO/Dapp-Learning** — Dapp learning project for developers at all stages. Becoming and cultivating sovereign individuals. Nonprofit organization. - Repository: https://github.com/Dapp-Learning-DAO/Dapp-Learning - Website: https://dapplearning.org - Stars: 5,836 · Forks: 1,462 - Language: Solidity - License: MIT - Published: 2026-09-22 · Updated: 2026-09-22 · Language: en - Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/dapp-learning-dao-dapp-learning ## What Dapp-Learning Is, and Who It Is Written For Dapp-Learning is a GitHub repository, not a framework. Its README describes it as a "Definitive Guide for Decentralized-app(Dapp) Development on Blockchain" and says the material is built for developers who want to learn DeFi, NFT, DAO and crypto projects through classical examples. The stated audience is two-sided: junior developers who need a roadmap into Dapp work, and advanced developers who want a place to compare notes and cooperate. The repository is governed as a DAO rather than run as a product team. The README states that it follows DAO governance, that it is sponsored by the Ethereum Foundation, and that it accepts grants through Gitcoin. Contributors become reviewers after three merged pull requests, according to the README, which is an unusual contribution ladder: the governance document at docs/dao-en.md is linked from the same page, so the rules are inspectable rather than implied. The organisation is explicitly nonprofit. That matters for expectations. There is no commercial support desk behind the tutorials, no paid tier, and no promise that any single example will be updated on a schedule. The last push to the repository was on 2026-03-30, so the codebase was still receiving commits as of that date, but the absence of published releases means you cannot pin a version and expect the same tree next month. ## How the Repository Is Organised: Basic Tasks and Project Tasks The README splits the work into two parts. Basic tasks cover the tools you need before writing an application: ERC standards, oracles, The Graph and IPFS are named as examples. Project tasks are case studies of mainstream DeFi, NFT and DAO projects, meant to be studied in groups. That division shows up in the top-level directory listing. Folders named basic/, defi/, nft/, dao/, btc/ and BTC/ sit alongside docs/ and security/. The presence of both btc/ and BTC/ at the root is a small but real signal about how the tree has grown: case-insensitive filesystems will treat those two names as one directory, which is a hazard if you clone on macOS or Windows and expect both to appear separately. The technology stack listed in the README is deliberately plural. web3.js and ethers.js with Hardhat are the primary JavaScript paths, web3.py with Brownie covers Python, and Java, Rust and Go are marked optional. That breadth is the point of a learning repository, but it also means there is no single toolchain you can install once and use everywhere. Each project folder carries its own dependencies and its own assumptions about which client library you are using. ## Installing the Tooling and Running Your First Project There is no Dapp-Learning package to install. The README points new developers at docs/basic-knowledge-en.md for Ethereum and Solidity fundamentals and docs/develop-tools-en.md for the recommended tool list. What the repository does provide at the root is a package.json whose only runtime dependencies are create-next-app and elliptic, with Hardhat, Husky, lint-staged, Prettier, prettier-plugin-solidity and solhint as development dependencies. That root manifest exists to lint contributions, not to run tutorials. The prepare script installs Husky hooks, and lint-staged is configured to run solhint and prettier on Solidity files, prettier on JavaScript and TypeScript, and prettier on Markdown. If you plan to open a pull request, install those first: ```bash npm install ``` Running that at the repository root triggers the prepare script, which runs husky and wires the commit hooks. You should see the hooks installed without errors. Commits that touch .sol files will then be checked by solhint and reformatted by prettier before they land. The actual learning work happens inside a project folder. The repository layout shows defi/, nft/, dao/ and basic/ as separate trees, and the README describes them as case studies rather than a single application. A realistic first step is to pick one folder, read its own README, and follow the instructions there, because the root package.json does not describe how any individual project is built or tested. If a folder has no instructions of its own, the repository does not provide a fallback. ## Where the Repository Stops Being Useful The most concrete limitation is that Dapp-Learning is study material, and study material ages differently from a library. The README gives no versioning policy for the tutorial projects, no compatibility matrix for Hardhat or ethers.js, and no statement about which examples are known to still compile. Recent releases returned nothing, so there is no tagged snapshot to fall back on when an example breaks against a newer dependency. The README also does not document rollback, deprecation or migration for any tutorial. If a DeFi case study depends on a contract interface that has since changed on mainnet, you will find that out by running it, not by reading a changelog. For a repository whose stated purpose is teaching, that is a real cost: a broken example teaches the wrong lesson, and there is no mechanism described for flagging one as stale. The licence is MIT, which is permissive and imposes no obligations beyond retaining the notice. That is generous for a repository that also accepts grants and donations, but it also means nobody owes you an update. Treat every folder as a snapshot from the date it was last touched, and check the file history before you build on top of it. ## Dapp-Learning Compared with Foundry's Book and Similar Guides The closest alternative in kind is a written, maintained guide such as the Foundry Book, or a structured course such as Cyfrin Updraft. The difference is in what gets versioned. A tool's own documentation ships alongside the tool, so when Hardhat changes an API the docs change with it. Dapp-Learning instead curates examples of third-party projects, which means its accuracy depends on those external projects staying still. The trade-off runs the other way too. A tool's documentation teaches you that tool. Dapp-Learning's project tasks are meant to show how DeFi, NFT and DAO systems are put together in practice, with study groups organised around them and weekly sessions recorded to YouTube according to the README. If you want a single authoritative reference for one framework, a tool's own book is the better choice. If you want a set of worked examples across several application categories, and a community to discuss them with, this repository is doing something the framework docs do not attempt. ## Maintenance, Licence and the Cost of Keeping Up The repository is not archived, and the last push was on 2026-03-30. That is the only maintenance signal available. There are no published releases, so upgrade cost cannot be expressed as a version delta; the practical cost is re-reading each project folder you depend on and checking whether its dependencies still resolve. The contribution pipeline is the maintenance mechanism. The root package.json configures commitlint through @commitlint/config-conventional, Husky for hooks, and lint-staged for formatting, and the README says three merged pull requests earn reviewer status. In other words, upkeep is distributed across contributors rather than assigned, and the tooling enforces style rather than correctness. Solhint will catch some Solidity issues; it will not tell you that an example no longer reflects how a protocol works. MIT licensing means you can copy, modify and redistribute the tutorial code, including inside commercial work, as long as the copyright notice travels with it. It does not mean the examples are audited. Nothing in the README or the repository layout suggests a security review process for the tutorial contracts, and the presence of a security/ folder and a SECURITY.md file indicates a reporting path, not a guarantee. ## Conclusion Adopt Dapp-Learning if you learn by cloning working examples in Solidity, Hardhat and ethers.js and want a study group around them. Skip it if you need a maintained library, versioned releases or an npm dependency with a support contract, because the repository publishes no releases and its README does not document rollback. Before committing time, open a single project folder such as nft/ or defi/ and check that its own package.json, toolchain and instructions still match the tools you have installed. ## FAQ ### What does "dApp" mean? The README expands it as "Decentralized-app(Dapp)" and frames the repository as a guide to building them on a blockchain. The project tasks cover DeFi, NFT and DAO categories as examples of that work. ### What is an example of dApps covered by Dapp-Learning? The README names DeFi, NFT, DAO and crypto projects as the case studies, and the repository layout has top-level defi/, nft/ and dao/ folders holding them. It describes these as classical projects studied step by step. ### How do I start using Dapp-Learning? The README directs newcomers to docs/basic-knowledge-en.md for Ethereum and Solidity basics and docs/develop-tools-en.md for the recommended tools before starting a project task. Contributors who want to open a pull request install the root dependencies with npm install, which runs the husky prepare script. ### Can you make money with dApps? The README does not address earning money from dApps. It describes the repository itself as a nonprofit learning group sponsored by the Ethereum Foundation and funded through Gitcoin grants, with funds awarded to contributors. ## Sources - [Dapp-Learning-DAO/Dapp-Learning on GitHub](https://github.com/Dapp-Learning-DAO/Dapp-Learning) - [Issues](https://github.com/Dapp-Learning-DAO/Dapp-Learning/issues) - [License: MIT](https://github.com/Dapp-Learning-DAO/Dapp-Learning/blob/main/LICENSE) - [Project website](https://dapplearning.org) - [README](https://github.com/Dapp-Learning-DAO/Dapp-Learning/blob/main/README.md) --- Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/dapp-learning-dao-dapp-learning