Ikeh Akinyemi Ikeh Akinyemi is a software engineer based in Rivers State, Nigeria. He’s passionate about learning pure and applied mathematics concepts, open source, and software engineering.

Stories by Ikeh Akinyemi

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Comparing Ethereum nodes and clients

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Learn about the unique features and benefits of several Ethereum clients: Geth, Nethermind, Erigon, Besu, and OpenEthereum.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Feb 28, 2022 ⋅ 5 min read
Building Secure Smart Contracts OpenZeppelin

Building secure smart contracts with OpenZeppelin

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Use OpenZeppelin Contracts and the Truffle framework to build and test secure smart contracts for ERC20 and ERC721 tokens. We also demo building ERC1155 contracts on the Remix IDE.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Jan 27, 2022 ⋅ 5 min read
How to Mint an NFT With Etherscan

How to mint an NFT with Etherscan

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In this tutorial, we’ll be minting an NFT from a smart contract on Etherscan. We’ll use the mint function to mint NFTs directly using Etherscan interfaces.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Jan 25, 2022 ⋅ 2 min read
Guide to Polkadot Blockchain App Development And Deployment

Guide to Polkadot blockchain app development and deployment

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Learn core concepts associated with building blockchain apps on Polkadot network, such as parachains, parathreads, and the Substrate framework.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Dec 27, 2021 ⋅ 4 min read
Configuring the Go HTTP Client

Configuring the Go HTTP client

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Walk through a simple procedure to configure and establish a connection between client and server and make HTTP requests in Go.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Dec 10, 2021 ⋅ 4 min read
How to Make an HTTP POST Request With a JSON Body in Go

How to make an HTTP POST request with a JSON body in Go

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Learn a simple procedure for making an HTTP POST request with a JSON body to a simple web server written in Go.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Nov 30, 2021 ⋅ 3 min read
Halfmoon Tutorial: How to Customize Your Website UI for Light and Dark Modes

Halfmoon tutorial: How to customize your website UI for light and dark modes

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Halfmoon is a frontend framework for building website UIs. Learn how to customize styles for both light and dark modes using Halfmoon.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Nov 24, 2021 ⋅ 5 min read

Guide to blockchain game development

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Let’s explore the emerging trend of blockchain game development and how to use the tools available within the crypto space to build games.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Nov 12, 2021 ⋅ 8 min read
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Using Drizzle and React to write DApp frontends

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Discover how to use the Drizzle framework to build frontend applications on Ethereum with this practical example.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Nov 3, 2021 ⋅ 6 min read
Decentralized data storage using IPFS: A tutorial with examples

Decentralized data storage using IPFS and React: A tutorial with examples

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In this tutorial, we’ll introduce you to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and demonstrate how to upload and store data through a distributed file system.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Oct 28, 2021 ⋅ 4 min read

Intro to Apollo Server 3 and Apollo Sandbox

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Learn about the latest features in Apollo Server 3 and how to implement a simple application and test it using Apollo Sandbox.

Ikeh Akinyemi
Sep 27, 2021 ⋅ 4 min read