Learn the stack like you plan to steal it.
Read real source, trace real primitives, and become the person in the room who can fork financial infrastructure without bluffing.
Source first. Abstractions later. Authority is earned by surviving the code paths everyone else edits around.
The clearest route if you want to build a perp engine end to end: concept layer first, then the OpenHL implementation chain from devnet to ADL.
The on-ramp sequence for people new to Rust Ethereum: first the worldview, then the toolkit, then the source-reading bridge before the deeper courses.
Optional but powerful source-level reads for engineers who want stronger intuition before or alongside the flagship implementation path.
The systems side of the stack: consensus, bridges, sequencing, validator operations, production engineering, and full application buildouts.
Get your bearings. Rust, EVM, Alloy, and the first real transactions.
- ▸ Intro to Reth — Welcome to Rust Ethereum
- ▸ Reth Fundamentals — Your First Steps with Alloy
- ▸ Reading the Stack — Bridge to Intermediate
Walk the source. Revm, Reth, Alloy, and Foundry without tutorial wheels.
- ▸ Perp DEX Primer — perpetual-futures mechanics
- ▸ Mastering Foundry — Solidity testing discipline for engineers who already think in Rust
- ▸ Inside Alloy — Reading the Rust Ethereum Library
- ▸ Inside Revm — Reading the EVM Engine
- + 1 more…
Operate the perimeter. Consensus, bridges, sequencers, p2p, performance, security.
- ▸ Validator Ops Bootcamp — Runbooks, Incidents, and Recovery
- ▸ Consensus Economics & Slashing Lab
- ▸ Multi-Node Devnet to Testnet
- ▸ Consensus Engineering — Building L1 Consensus on Reth
- + 4 more…
Ship the engine. OpenHL internals, custom rails, and production-grade Reth chains.
- ▸ Performance & Capacity Engineering
- ▸ Production Security & Governance
- ▸ Build OpenHL — from cargo init to a single-validator devnet
- ▸ Build OpenHL CLOB — adding the matching engine
- + 6 more…
First watch the engine bleed. Then decide if it is worth owning.
Dojo builds the operator. Reactor is where you compare the live machines and decide which one deserves budget.
Dojo on fabrknt.com is the public breach shell (browse the 26 courses). The full lesson player still lives at rethlab.fabrknt.com while the rest of the training stack is folded into the main site.