I’ve been working on getting more familiarity with a bunch of things I should really be more familiar with already. On the list, I wanted to get familiar with the deployment process of an ERC20 token. Getting to deploy on a local testnet took me longer than it could’ve, so I figured I’d write a little guide on how to do it, and you should be able to get up and running in no time.

If you’ve ever written anything (which I’m sure you have), you know that typos happen. In the writing world, it will make you look quite silly once it’s exposed. In the programming world, if mistakes like this are deployed to your software, not only will it make you look silly, but it can also leave your platform susceptible to dangerous hacks. This is where auditing comes in.

As part of a recent project, Linum Labs was contracted to build an API which could be used to scrape relevant data from a suite of deployed contracts. While scraping event data is a fairly routine operation in blockchain applications, we found a lack of practical guides or even detailed explanations for how to use existing tooling. Are you looking to scrape blockchain data, and can’t figure out how to get the information you want from events? We hope this guide helps make your development process easier.