2022OpenZeppelinJun 2022 – Aug 2022

Ethernaut

Rebuilt the frontend of Ethernaut — OpenZeppelin's Capture-The-Flag game played by 5,000+ smart-contract developers. New look, faster pages, and the kind of polish you only notice when it stops getting in the way.

roleFrontend Developer (Open-source)

teamNethermind × OpenZeppelin

tagsReact · TypeScript · OpenZeppelin · CTF · Open Source

The brief

Ethernaut is OpenZeppelin's smart-contract CTF — around 5,000 developers learn by breaking it on purpose. Nethermind partnered with OpenZeppelin to rebuild the frontend, and I picked up most of the open-source work.

a level page with the puzzle exposed

Redesign

New look, new structure, and a pile of performance work. Collaborated with the OpenZeppelin team on features and design requirements, then shipped the bits people actually see.

terminal output after a successful exploit

Why it mattered

It's one of the few places web3 developers learn by getting things wrong on purpose. Making it faster and prettier didn't change what it teaches — but it made the learning less of a chore.

— S.