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For any new technological movement to take off it requires a virtuous flywheel of more developers, more apps, more users. This could not be more true for the adoption of web3 and it has been true throughout recent history with the early days of the internet, the Apple app store, and the android marketplace. According to Electric Capital’s most recent developer report, there are over 18k+ monthly active developers in web3 and 34k+ new developers joined the ecosystem in 2021. While many of these developers may be self-taught or active web2 developers making the jump to web3, it will be crucial for the industry to develop pathways for beginners to learn the requisite skills to move the industry forward. What better way is there to learn a new skill than to go to school? Education is key and Web3 University is a new type of university paving the way for the next generation of Web3 developers.
What is Web3 University?
Web3 University is an online educational platform bringing you the best resources and tutorials across the blockchain development ecosystem. A one-stop, chain-agnostic shop for developers looking to learn about writing smart contracts, minting NFTs, and building fully-functional end-to-end dApps that can scale to millions worldwide.
We're partnering with some of the heavyweights in the blockchain space - Alchemy, a16z, Pantera Capital, Arbitrum (Offchain Labs), Polygon, OpenSea, buildspace, Chainshot, and leading developer advocates like Nader Dabit, Patrick Collins, and Austin Griffith. Basically, we're bringing the best-of-the-best together to ensure you're getting the most valuable resources across all of Web3.
Why now?
Even the biggest companies in Web3 are incredibly young, and almost all of them were started by a couple of developers with an idea who decided to experiment on blockchain. Nearly all of us in this space today started learning Web3 development in the past five years - and we know that 90% of future blockchain developers still have yet to join. More than that, Web3 is seeing an explosion of amateurs, people with literally no coding background who are excited about the possibilities and want to start building.
There could not be a better time to launch this resource.
Say you're an existing developer at an established company looking to get into blockchain development. When you're learning in your free time, there's hundreds of articles, tutorials, and guides out there, all of varying quality or consistency. Today, it's extremely difficult to piece together the tutorials you need to give you a full picture of the space, and most of the content is brand new and untested.
By creating a highly-curated, authoritative destination supported by the best educators in Web3, you can learn everything you need about blockchain development in one place. We'd like to fast-forward developers through that early grind and get them building quickly on the projects that they're excited to work on, not spend hours searching for the information they need.
What's the Vision?
Web3 University needs to be organized by the people who have the most stake in its future: blockchain developers interesting in educating the rest of the world about Web3. So that's what we're aiming to do. Alchemy and partners from across the Web3 ecosystem, are kicking this off, but we want to it to ultimately be community-led.
We've already gotten started here! We're working on designing incentive structures to lift up educators who have invested their time and effort into creating great resources on web3 development.
Finally, we're actively exploring what it would look like to decentralize the management of Web3 University in the long run and give ownership to thecommunity - the web3 educators who are actively working to grow blockchain one student at a time.
Web3 University has seen impressive growth since its inception and currently has 20k Twitter followers, 8k Discord Members, and is currently teaching over 15k developers across the globe! The number of developers in the university essentially makes it a small college and the best part is the university is totally free! Web3 topics include Ethereum, dApps, NFTs, Alchemy, Solidity, Flow, and more. So, if you are interested in learning about web3 development in your spare time this is the best resource we have seen thus far.
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