Next Steps

Congratulations! 🎉

You have completed this tutorial, and hopefully learned a lot along the way.

However, your journey toward mastering the Polkadot SDK has just begun.

Here are some ideas of what you can do next:

• Share this tutorial!

  • Pick your favorite social networking platform, and share this tutorial with your peers!

• Contribute back to this tutorial!

  • If you found errors or have suggestions on how to improve this tutorial, open an issue or a pull request.

• Take a day to process this tutorial, then do it again!

  • Open all of the deep dive content.
  • Watch all the linked videos.
  • Check out all the additional resources.

• If you need more Rust help, try the rust-state-machine tutorial:

  • https://github.com/shawntabrizi/rust-state-machine

• Extend this project:

  • Create a function to "abandon" kitties, which removes them from our database.
  • Create a function to breed kitties, and use the DNA of the parents to generate new DNA.
  • Create a game using player stats based on the DNA of the kitty.
  • etc...

• If you want to take this tutorial to the next level:

  • TODO: Learn how to add this pallet to a custom blockchain.
  • TODO: Learn how to create a UI using React for your NFT marketplace.

• Check out the content from the Polkadot Blockchain Academy:

  • Slides: https://polkadot-blockchain-academy.github.io/pba-content/
  • Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@polkadotblockchainacademy

• Check out the Polkadot SDK Docs:

  • https://paritytech.github.io/polkadot-sdk/master/polkadot_sdk_docs/index.html

• Learn more about the Polkadot Network:

  • https://polkadot.network/

Good luck on your journey, and welcome to the Polkadot ecosystem!