Smart Contract DevOps - Post Deployment

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Defi Security Summit

A nudge to watch the DeFi security summit video on the course's GitHub repo!

Course Overview

About the course

What you'll learn

Introduction to best practices when working with wallets

Post-deployment security

Post-deployment monitoring

Smart contract DevOps

Course Description

Who is this course for?

Smart contract security researchers
Smart contract engineers
CTOs and CSOs
DevOps professionals

Potential Careers

Smart Contract Auditor

$100,000 - $200,000 (avg. salary)

Smart Contract Engineer

$100,000 - $150,000 (avg. salary)

Meet your instructors

Patrick Collins

Founder at Cyfrin

Web3 engineer, educator, and Cyfrin co-founder. Patrick's smart contract development and security courses have helped hundreds of thousands of engineers kickstarting their careers into web3.

Last updated on March 25, 2025

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Solidity Developer

Smart Contract DevOps

Section 1: Intro

Duration: 17min

Section 2: Wallets

Duration: 1h 20min

Section 3: Post Deployment

Duration: 36min

1. Smart Contract Post Deployment

This lesson focuses on essential pre-and post-deployment steps for securing your protocol, such as setting up contacts and agreements, monitoring, and disaster recovery. Addresses responsible disclosure practices for security researchers, introduces bug bounty platforms, and blockchain investigation tools. Duration: 4min

2. Defi Security Summit

A nudge to watch the DeFi security summit video on the course's GitHub repo! Duration: 0min

3. Pre Deployment Steps

Patrick itemizes the steps that should be taken to best secure a protocol pre-deployment. Duration: 8min

4. Monitoring

In this video, Patrick covers various blockchain monitoring tools, such as Forta, Pessimistic Spotter, OpenZeppelin's Defender, highlighting key features of each tool to help secure protocols. Duration: 2min

5. Forta Bot

In this lesson we learn the high level process to create and deploy custom FortaBots for scanning blockchains and detecting suspicious transactions within a network. Duration: 1min

6. Incident Response

Patrick details best practices and how to respond when things go wrong, emphasizing the need for a plan of action and remaining calm. Duration: 4min

7. What If I Find A Bug

In this lesson we discuss the ethical management of bugs found in the wild and how best to go about reporting them while minimizing legal risks and personal vulnerabilities. Duration: 7min

8. Blockchain Sleuthing

In this tutorial, Patrick introduces tools like OpenChain, Falcon, and Tenderly to analyze transactions post-attack, with a focus on function calls and events. Duration: 5min

9. Recap

This lesson recaps the strategies and methodologies for post-deployment as discussed in this section. Duration: 5min