
Part 1 gives a high-level and neutral tour of LLMs/Vibe Coding Tools for Web3—how they reason, strengths/limits, and how to evaluate model quality for smart-contract work. (45mins)
Part 2 is a practical workshop: use Nora to go from prompt to deployed Solidity app—scaffolding contracts, tests, basic audits, and front-end hooks. You’ll leave with a working repo, safe “vibe-coding” patterns, and repeatable prompts. (Beginner-friendly, valuable for advanced devs; bring a laptop. 45mins)
Derrick is the Technical BD (Prev. NEAR Foundation and multiple startups) at Nora, the AI coding agent for blockchain. Nora team was composed of professionals previously at MIT, Google DeepMind, Meta LLaMA - their work focuses on making development end-to-end: giving a complete to-do list, from writing smart contracts, to automated code review, to audit-ready checks—all in one flow. Nora also helps developers connect wallets and integrate on-chain protocols automatically.