Sorting out the industry's “hematopoietic” system, a list of Web3 education track projects
A comprehensive inventory of nearly 30 Web3 education websites to satisfy your desire to learn.
By Karen, Foresight News
Open Campus goes live with Web3 education protocolBinanceLaunchpad, the combination of Web3 and education, introduction to Web3, and development education broke into the industry's field of vision for the first time. Similar Web3 education platforms will be catalysts for large-scale adoption of Web3 by breaking the barriers for ordinary Web2 users or developers to enter the Web3 world.
Foresight News hereby brings together nearly 30 Web3 education platforms and official introductory and developer resource websites launched by Layer1/Layer2 for readers to learn and discuss together.
Learn-to-earn/teach-to-earn education platform (including credential certification)Alchemy University
Alchemy University is Alchemy University, a Web3 learning platform launched by blockchain development platform Alchemy in collaboration with the education startup ChainShot. The training camp includes cryptography, solidity development, smart contract security, proxy contracts, delegated calls, etc. It is both a Web3 development course and a complete ecosystem for building skills and networks.
link:https://university.alchemy.com/
Blockchain at Berkeley
Blockchain at Berkeley is a student organization at the University of California, Berkeley, founded in October 2016 by the Berkeley Bitcoin Association (Berkeley Bitcoin Association) to launch the world's first undergraduate university-approved blockchain course.
Blockchain at Berkeley's courses include blockchain basics, blockchain development, blockchain technology, and Bitcoin & cryptocurrency.
link:https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/
DeSchool
DeSchool is a Web3 online education infrastructure incubated by SeedAO's strategy. The DeSchool Pro version was launched in November 2022. Instructors can use this tool to issue SBT education certificates to students who have completed the course, and Web3 organizations can also use this tool to simplify the community education process. In the future, DeSchool plans to launch an on-chain education resume function and an on-chain education certification program to become Coursera+LinkedIn in the Web3 era.
At the end of December 2022, DeSchool completed a seed round with a valuation of $15 million. Investors include Y2Z Venture, Zhu Jiawei, former COO of Huobi, Hu Donghai, founder of Plancker, Tang Han, founder of SeaDAO, Baiyu, and Unipass founder Zhi Xian.
link:https://deschool.app/en/learn
Learnoverse
Learnoverse is an educational metaverse platform launched by BitDegree. BitDegree began in 2017 and launched in 2018, seeking to use blockchain to award scholarships, preserve instructional video content, and provide certificates.
Learnoverse focuses on crypto and blockchain education, and plans to combine the Learn & Earn system to build its own cryptographic learning metaverse, thereby providing a cryptographic native education concept for various characters such as learners, instructors, crypto companies, and influencers.
link:https://www.bitdegree.org/courses/learnoverse
Further reading:《Learn the Web3 learning platform Learnoverse in 3 minutes: How to build a learning metaverse?》
LearnWeb3
LearnWeb3 aims to allow more developers to join Web3, and courses are set up according to the developer's level of proficiency.
In September 2022, LearnWeb3 closed a $1.25 million seed round, led by IOSG Ventures, with Balaji Srinivasan, EPNS founder Harsh Rajat, and other angel investors.
Metaschool
Metaschool is also a learning platform that provides resources for developers.
Questbook
Questbook is a donation and bounty tool for Web3 builders, and has also released a decentralized academy to help developers learn to code in Web3, coveringEthereum、Solana, NEAR, andPolygonFor free coding knowledge, you can also get an NFT reward after completing tasks.
TinyTap & Open Campus
TinyTap is an education platform based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded by Yogev Shelly and Oren Elbaz in 2012. In June 2022, Animoca Brands announced the acquisition of 80.45% of the issued capital of educational content platform TinyTap in consideration of $388.75 million in cash and shares. Animoca Brands currently holds 84.13% of TinyTap. On April 25, TinyTap announced the completion of $8.5 million in funding with investors including Sequoia China, Shima Capital, Polygon, Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital, and GameFi Ventures.
TinyTap is building a global curriculum to build a comprehensive library of all the necessary skills from kindergarten to college.
Binance Launchpad is about to launch its 31st project, Open Campus (EDU), an agreement launched by TinyTap. TinyTap is on Open Campus, similar to Uniswap Labs on Uniswap Protocol.
Open Campus is a decentralized Web3 education protocol designed for educators, content creators, parents, students, and co-publishers. It tokenizes educational content into NFTs, enables students to access more diverse educational content through decentralized educational content creation and distribution, while providing educators with new opportunities to earn revenue. TinyTap previously said it would join Open Campus and adopt EDU as its platform's native token.
Further reading:《Exclusive interview with TinyTap CEO: Responding to community questions and telling the story behind Open Campus》
The Morpheus Project
The Morpheus Project is an educational metaverse space that was previously one of the first startups selected by The Sandbox and risk accelerator Brinc to announce a $50 million metaverse incubation program. At The Morpheus Project, users can learn and test their knowledge by fighting monsters, and educators can create virtual and augmented reality courses.
Through the learn-to-earn model, any user who teaches or shares knowledge will receive Denarii (DEN) fungible tokens as a reward for sharing knowledge and experience, while any learner user who discovers new knowledge and experience will receive BLOCK (the basic item necessary to make everything in Morpheus) to reward their participation. The token economy model can be found here.
According to the official website, The Morpheus Project's partners also include Animoca Brands and others.
link:https://www.morpheus.art/
WTF Academy
WTF Academy is an open source community for Web2 programmers to learn the Ethereum programming language Solidity. It is dedicated to producing free and open source programming tutorials and ensuring quality through community reviews.
In January 2023, WTF Academy received an Ethereum grant. The funds will be used to create an open source Solidity tutorial (in Chinese and English), instructional videos, and a test website. The goal is to guide tens of thousands of developers into the Web3 field.
Web3Learn
Web3Learn aims to push developers into the Web3 space, offering free and paid courses. Currently, the project's Twitter account is suspended.
link:https://www.web3learn.io/
Non-learn-to-earn education platformAptos Eden
Aptos Eden provides Move language tutorials to help Web2 users thoroughly learn Move development technology and the Web3 ecosystem, and support the development of the Aptos ecosystem.
link:http://www.aptoseden.vip/
Binance Academy
Binance Academy is Binance's cryptocurrency and blockchain education platform launched in 2018, providing resources on blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and the Web3 ecosystem, and recently released Binance Sensei, an artificial intelligence-driven learning tool that can be seamlessly integrated with it.
link:https://academy.binance.com/en
buildspace
buildspace is a bit like an academy, but it's not a course or bootcamp, where developers can choose their own ideas to build, get feedback, and iterate. buildspace believes the best way to learn is to build to help developers build their own Web3 projects.
buildspace completed $10 million in August 2022. This round of financing was led by a16z, with Founders Inc, Weekend Fund, Y Combinator, Vayner Fund, Protocol Labs, OrangeDAO, Solana Ventures, OpenSea Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, DreamERVC and others participating .
Blockchain academy
Blockchain Academy is a non-profit organization under Talentre. It is a Web3.0 education platform jointly launched by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Crypto-Fintech Lab and others to teach users Web3.0 knowledge and skills. The website covers learning, activities, buildCamp, and hackathon sections.
link:https://talentre.academy/
Buidler DAO
Buidler DAO has five major associations working together, namely the Incubation, Technology, Investment Research, Education, and Operation Association. Among them, the Investment Research and Education Association exports original content such as in-depth research reports, courses, and podcasts. In February, the Sui Foundation and the Buidler DAO Education Association officially launched a series of Chinese Sui Move developer courses.
link:https://buidlerdao.notion.site/a2e9b124ffd4423eab23e55f68a8d4db
ConsenSys Academy
ConsenSys Academy, a subsidiary of ConsenSys, aims to provide the knowledge and skills required for Ethereum developers, covering sections such as blockchain developer bootcamps, flagship introductory courses, blockchain developer programs, etc., some of which are paid courses.
link:https://consensys.net/academy/
Web3 University
Launched in late 2021, Web3 University is a Web3 education platform for developers who want to learn to write smart contracts, mint NFTs, and build scalable end-to-end dApps. Web3 University's partners Alchemy, a16z, Pantera Capital, Arbitrum (Offchain Labs), Polygon, OpenSea, etc.
link:https://www.web3.university/
Encode Club
Encode Club is a Web3 education community that includes hackathons, coding bootcamps, educational workshops, and accelerators.
Encode Club was founded in 2020 and closed a $5 million seed round in May 2022, led by Galaxy Digital and Lemniscap, Dragonfly Ventures, Folius Ventures, Not3Lau Capital, Ascendant Assets, Stefan George (co-founder of Gnosis), Synthetix Jordan and Kain Warwick, Anton Bukov (1inch co-founder), and SolBigBrain participated.
Multisig Media
Multisig Media, a continuing professional education (CPE) and news provider for the crypto accounting and finance industry, was recently acquired by the crypto accounting and compliance platform Bitwave.
link:https://learn.multisig.media/
Finematics
Finematics is a decentralized education platform. The fields of education include Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, and NFTs, but the frequency of updates has been low recently.
Figment Learn
Figment Learn is a Web3 technology learning platform launched by blockchain infrastructure provider Figment.
link:https://learn.figment.io/
Official Layer1/Layer2 Getting Started and Developer Resources
ethereum.org
ethereum.org is an Ethereum community public open source website and educational resource platform funded by the Ethereum Foundation. It aims to help new users explain and use Ethereum, help new developers start building and displaying resources created by the community, etc.
link:https://ethereum.org/en/learn/
Polygon Wiki: A website launched by Polygon to learn about Polygon and its technology, covering Polygon PoS, Polygon zkEVM, Polygon Miden, etc.
link:https://wiki.polygon.technology/
Sui Developer Portal: Launched by Sui, a layer 1 blockchain network, the developer portal is a one-stop hub for all of Sui's technical and educational resources, including core development tools and infrastructure to help developers get started.
link:https://sui.io/developers
Arbitrum Docs: Arbitrum's official introduction and development resources.
link:https://developer.arbitrum.io/
Optimism Docs: Officially launched by OptimismoptimismGetting started and development resources.
link:https://community.optimism.io/
zkSync Era Docs: Getting started and developer documentation for zkSync Era by zkSync.
link:https://era.zksync.io/docs/dev/
Aptos Developer Resources: Aptos developer resources officially launched by Aptos.
https://aptosfoundation.org/developer-resources
Fuel Documentation Portal: Official Fuel documentation from Fuel Labs.
