openzeppelin-contracts vs ethernaut

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openzeppelin-contracts		ethernaut
	Project
233	Mentions	5
24,109	Stars	1,881
1.6%	Growth	2.9%
9.5	Activity	7.9
about 8 hours ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Solidity
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

openzeppelin-contracts

Posts with mentions or reviews of openzeppelin-contracts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.

Blockchain transactions decoding: making wallet activity understandable
5 projects | dev.to | 27 Oct 2023

Lets look the events of Open Zeppelin’s ERC20 token contract:
Construir e implementar un VAULT (bóveda) ERC20 en Shardeum
1 project | /r/u_dhragon666 | 17 Sep 2023
Are ERC-777 Unsafe?
1 project | /r/ethdev | 11 Sep 2023

ERC-777 is difficult to implement properly, due to its susceptibility to different forms of attack(opens in a new tab). It is recommended to use ERC-20 instead. This page remains as a historical archive.
OpenZeppelin is trying to avoid paying a bounty for a vulnerability that caused $1,1B worth of assets freeze
1 project | /r/eth | 25 Jul 2023

1 project | /r/ethdev | 24 Jul 2023
Security improvements of the ERC20 token standard
1 project | /r/eth | 12 Jul 2023

1 project | /r/ethdev | 12 Jul 2023
Ethereums most used token standard ERC20 requires security enhancements
1 project | /r/CryptoCurrency | 12 Jul 2023
The most used Ethereums token standard (ERC20) requires a security patch.
1 project | /r/CryptoCurrency | 12 Jul 2023
Best Solidity Vertion
1 project | /r/solidity | 29 May 2023

This depends if you're writing a contract from scratch or using existing code. If you're making something new, then yes (recommend not to use THE most recent available, always better to go with tried and tested). For existing projects, never try to override the solidity version. This may be a pain with "@" imports - ideally everyone should specify the library version (e.g. https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/v2.5.1/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol).

ethernaut

Posts with mentions or reviews of ethernaut. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.

DeFi development learning
3 projects | /r/ethdev | 19 Jun 2023

- https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/ethernaut - do ALL the security oriented exercises
My journey from Web Dev to Web 3.0 Dev - Part 2
1 project | dev.to | 1 Jun 2022

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Why does this transaction run out of gas?
1 project | dev.to | 28 Apr 2022

In the following code snippet, we have 4 contracts: Sender, SenderWithRequire, SenderWithEmit and Receiver. Here, Receiver will play the King contract role.
Web3.0 Resources
36 projects | dev.to | 11 Dec 2021
Open Source block chain projects for Devs.
2 projects | /r/ethdev | 4 Jun 2021

You could contribute to Ethernaut, such as updating to Solidity 0.8: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/ethernaut

What are some alternatives?

When comparing openzeppelin-contracts and ethernaut you can also consider the following projects:

solmate - Modern, opinionated, and gas optimized building blocks for smart contract development.

remix-ide - Documentation for Remix IDE

hardhat - Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software.

learning-resources - Resources for getting into Web3 development

ERC721A - https://ERC721A.org

web3-cheatsheet - A cheatsheet with all the best web3 resources

Safemoon.sol - safemoon contract

DecentralizedApplications - Decentralized Applications White Paper and Spec

solidity - Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language

remix - This has been moved to https://github.com/ethereum/remix-project

truffle - :warning: The Truffle Suite is being sunset. For information on ongoing support, migration options and FAQs, visit the Consensys blog. Thank you for all the support over the years.