Original text: "Sorting out the industry's "hematopoietic" system, a list of Web3 education track projects"
By Karen, Foresight News
With the launch of Web3 education protocol Open Campus on Binance Launchpad, the combination of Web3 and education, Web3 introductory and development education have entered the industry's vision for the first time. Similar Web3 education platforms, as a barrier for ordinary Web2 users or developers to enter the Web3 world, will become a catalyst for the large-scale adoption of Web3.
Foresight News has compiled 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 credentialing) Alchemy University
Alchemy University is a Web3 learning platform launched by blockchain development platform Alchemy in cooperation with its acquired education startup ChainShot. The training camp content includes cryptography, Solidity development, smart contract security, proxy contracts, delegated calls, etc. It is not only a Web3 development course, but also 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, which launched the world's first undergraduate university-accredited blockchain course.
Blockchain at Berkeley's courses include blockchain basics, blockchain development, blockchain technology, and Bitcoin & cryptocurrency.
Link: https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/
The school
DeSchool is a Web3 online education infrastructure strategically incubated by SeeDAO. The DeSchool Pro version was launched in November 2022. Lecturers 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.
DeSchool completed its seed round of financing at a valuation of US$15 million at the end of December 2022. Investors include Y2Z Venture, former Huobi COO Zhu Jiawei, Plancker founder Hu Donghai, SeeDAO founder Tang Han, SeeDAO founder Baiyu and Unipass founder Zhixian.
Link: https://deschool.app/en/learn
Learnovers
Learnoverse is an educational metaverse platform launched by BitDegree. BitDegree started in 2017 and launched in 2018, seeking to use blockchain to award scholarships, store teaching video content, and provide certificates.
Learnoverse focuses on crypto and blockchain education, and plans to combine the Learn & Earn system to build its own crypto learning metaverse, thereby providing crypto-native education concepts for multiple roles such as learners, lecturers, crypto companies and influencers.
Link: https://www.bitdegree.org/courses/learnoverse
LearnWeb3
LearnWeb3 aims to get more developers to join Web3, and has set up corresponding courses based on the developer's level of experience.
In September 2022, LearnWeb3 completed a US$1.25 million seed round of financing, led by IOSG Ventures, with participation from Balaji Srinivasan, EPNS founder Harsh Rajat and other angel investors.
Link: https://learnweb3.io/
Metaschool
Metaschool is also a learning platform that provides resources for developers.
Link: https://metaschool.so/
Questbook
Questbook is a donation and bounty tool for Web3 builders. It has also released a decentralized academy to help developers learn to code in Web3, covering free coding knowledge on Ethereum, Solana, NEAR, and Polygon. NFT rewards can also be obtained after completing tasks.
Link: https://openquest.xyz/
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 for $38.875 million in cash and stock. Animoca Brands currently holds 84.13% of TinyTap's shares. On April 25, TinyTap announced the completion of $8.5 million in financing, with investors including Sequoia China, Shima Capital, Polygon, Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital and GameFi Ventures.
TinyTap is building a global curriculum, constructing a comprehensive library covering all necessary skills from kindergarten to college.
Binance Launchpad is about to launch its 31st project, Open Campus (EDU), which is a protocol launched by TinyTap. TinyTap is to Open Campus what Uniswap Labs is to 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, decentralizes the creation and distribution of educational content, enables students to access more diverse educational content, and provides educators with new opportunities to earn income. TinyTap previously stated that it would join Open Campus and adopt EDU as the native token of its platform.
Link: https://www.tinytap.com/
The Morpheus Project
The Morpheus Project is an educational metaverse space where educators can create virtual and augmented reality courses. It was selected as one of the first startups to be included in The Sandbox and venture accelerator Brinc’s $50 million metaverse incubation program. In 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 required to make everything in Morpheus) as a reward for their participation. The token economic 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 committed to creating free and open source programming tutorials and ensuring quality through community review.
In January 2023, WTF Academy received funding from the Ethereum Foundation. The funds will be used to create open source Solidity tutorials (in Chinese and English), teaching videos and test websites, with the goal of guiding tens of thousands of developers into the Web3 field.
Link: https://www.wtf.academy/
Web3Learn
Web3Learn aims to promote developers to enter the Web3 field, providing free courses and paid courses. Currently, the project's Twitter account is frozen.
Link: https://www.web3learn.io/
Non-Learn-to-Earn Education Platform Aptos Eden
Aptos Eden provides Move language tutorials to help Web2 users deeply learn Move development technology and Web3 ecology, and provide support for the development of the Aptos ecology.
Link: http://www.aptoseden.vip/
Binance Academy
Binance Academy is a cryptocurrency and blockchain education platform launched by Binance in 2018, providing resources on blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and the Web3 ecosystem. It 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 not a course or a training camp. Here, developers can choose their own ideas to build, get feedback and iterate. Buildspace believes that the best way to learn is to build, helping developers build their own Web3 projects.
Buildspace completed a US$10 million financing round in August 2022. This round of financing was led by a16z, with participation from Founders Inc, Weekend Fund, Y Combinator, Vayner Fund, Protocol Labs, OrangeDAO, Solana Ventures, OpenSea Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, DreamerVC and others.
Link: https://buildspace.so/
Blockchain Academy
Blockchain Academy is a non-profit organization under Talentre. It is a Web3.0 education platform jointly initiated by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Crypto-Fintech Lab and others, aiming 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 guilds working together, namely incubation, technology, investment research, education and operation guilds. The investment research and education guilds produce original content such as in-depth research reports, courses, podcasts, etc. In February, Sui Foundation officially launched the Chinese Sui Move developer series course in cooperation with Buidler DAO Education Guild.
Link: https://buidlerdao.notion.site/a2e9b124ffd4423eab23e55f68a8d4db
ConsenSys Academy
ConsenSys Academy, a subsidiary of ConsenSys, aims to provide the knowledge and skills required by Ethereum developers. It covers blockchain developer training camps, flagship introductory courses, blockchain developer programs and other sections, some of which are paid courses.
Link: https://consensys.net/academy/
Web3 University
Launched at the end of 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 partners include 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 covers hackathons, coding bootcamps, educational workshops, and accelerators.
Encode Club was founded in 2020 and completed a US$5 million seed round of financing in May 2022, led by Galaxy Digital and Lemniscap, with participation from Dragonfly Ventures, Folius Ventures, Not3Lau Capital, Ascensive Assets, Stefan George (co-founder of Gnosis), Jordan and Kain Warwick of Synthetix, Anton Bukov (co-founder of 1inch), SolBigBrain and others.
Link: https://www.encode.club/
Multisig Media
Multisig Media, a provider of continuing professional education (CPE) and news to the crypto accounting and finance industry, has been acquired by crypto accounting and compliance platform Bitwave.
Link: https://learn.multisig.media/
Finematics
Finematics is a decentralized education platform, and its educational scope includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, and NFT, but the frequency of updates has been low recently.
Link: https://finematics.com/
Figment Learn
Figment Learn is a Web3 technology learning platform launched by blockchain infrastructure provider Figment.
Link: https://learn.figment.io/
Layer1/Layer2 Official Introduction and Developer Resources ethereum.org
ethereum.org is a public open source website and educational resource platform for the Ethereum community funded by the Ethereum Foundation. It aims to help new users explain and use Ethereum, help new developers get started building, and showcase community-created resources.
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 Layer 1 blockchain network Sui, the developer portal is a one-stop center for all Sui 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 Arbitrum getting started and development resources.
Link: https://developer.arbitrum.io/
Optimism Docs: Optimism's official Optimism introductory 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 documentation for Fuel from Fuel Labs.
Link: https://docs.fuel.network/