[IMPACT]
Educational material will be written covering the basics of blockchain technology and how Cardano fits into it. I will be prepared for a workshop spanning between 4 to 8 days where the basics are covered for those who don’t know what a blockchain is and up to the point where the more tech minded participants set up a Cardano node and learn how to interact with it and run smart contracts.
The basics of blockchains and its various use cases will be covered. This will prepare the participants to appreciate what Cardano brings to the table and what sets it apart from other blockchains. All participants will leave knowing what is a blockchain and what is Cardano.
Educational material will be split into 2 parts. The first part will run over the first 2 to 4 days and will be for the general public covering the basics of the blockchain and how Cardano fits into it. The second part will run over the second 2 to 4 days and will be more hands-on, for those who want to learn how to interact with and build on Cardano.
The following is a schedule of an example workshop running over 4 days. The material that will be prepared is marked with capital letters <<MATERIAL PREPARED>>. This schedule and the material can be used to run future workshops.
Example Day1 - Introduction to Blockchain Technology
8:30 - Reception and sign in of participants
9:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED></u>> Introduction to blockchain. What a blockchain is, what are blocks, what are transactions, who upkeeps the blockchain and how is it different to a centralized infrastructure
10:45 - Coffee Break
11:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED></u>> Use cases for blockchains. What blockchains are currently being used for (DeFi, Lending, Identity management, Logistics) and Industries for large scale adoption
12:30 - Lunch
14:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano and other blockchains. Similarities and differences
15:45 - Coffee Break
16:00 -<u> <<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> DeFi, Lending and Remittances. A deep dive into how they work
17:30 - Q&A, Refreshments and Socializing
Example Day 2 - Cardano Ecosystem
8:30 - Reception and sign in of participants
9:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> What is Cardano and how is it different from the other blockchains? The roadmap and the key deliverables at each of the phases
10:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> The trilemma of Decentralization, Scalability and Security - where does Cardano fit in
10:45 - Coffee Break
11:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>> </u>Building blocks of Cardano - node, stake pools, wallets, UTXOs, smart contracts, onchain vs offchains
12:30 - Lunch
14:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> Projects Building on Cardano, Djed and Catalyst. How to get involved
15:30 - Coffee
16:00 - Summary of the two days followed by the speech from organizers
17:30 - Q&A, Refreshments and socializing
Example Day 3 - Cardano Hands On
The third day is geared towards the more technical participants who want to understand how the Cardano ecosystem works. The intention is that after this day the users will be armed with the necessary knowledge to start exploring the Cardano ecosystem by themselves. For this a computer lab will be required.
Participants will need to preregister to participate in the third day and will need to demonstrate basic knowledge of how computers work and experience working with a terminal. Those who struggle working with a terminal, but still wanting to participate will be given a series of tutorials to work through prior to registration.
8:30 - Reception and sign in of participants
9:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> Discuss the plan for the day and what we aim to achieve at the end.
9:30 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> Launching the virtual machine and making sure the packages are installed
10:30 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED></u>> Compiling the Cardno node, launching and setting the topology information to connect it to the rest of the network (testnet). Monitor that transactions are being processed
12:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> Create an address and fund it with tADA. Discuss what the different keys are and how they are generated
12:30 - Lunch
14:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>> </u>Discuss web wallets and differences between Daedalus and web wallets. Advantages and disadvantages of each. Install a web wallet send transactions to and from the address create in the morning
15:45 - Coffee Break
16:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> Native assets and NFTs. Mint tokens and mint an NFT with the favorite picture from each participant
17:30 - Q&A, Refreshments and socializing
Example Day 4 - Cardano Hands On continued
8:30 - Reception and sign in of participants
9:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED></u>> What is a smart contract? Build and run an “always succeeds” contract, send some ADA and then redeem. Explain what UTXO, Datum, Redeemer and Context are.
10:45 - Coffee Break
11:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> Go through the available resources for participants so they can start exploring themselves. Cardano Forum, Stackexchage, Discord, Telegram channels, Explorer, Plutus Pioneer program
12:30 - Lunch
14:00 - <u><<MATERIAL PREPARED>></u> Assignment and time to explore and ask technical questions. The assignment is to create an address, fund it with tADA, build an always succeed script, send ada to it and then redeem from a web wallet
17:30 - Hading out of certificates of participation and Closing remarks
The educational material will be written in English and made available on our website for the community to use under the Creative Commons License
In future proposals the material can be translated and used to run workshops online or in person.
Delivering the workshop increases the awareness of what blockchains are in general and Cardano in particular. The first 2 days of the proposal give a general introduction about blockchains and Cardano and the second 2 days give a hands-on experience of how to interact and build on Cardano. This workshop gives the tools to participants to start exploring and further progress their knowledge of Cardano. This directly addresses the challenge question of “how do we continue to seed and grown Cardano in Africa”
The training will be prepared in English with the view to translate it into multiple languages in future proposals
The project is to prepare educational material
Risk that delivery overruns the proposed schedule due to unforeseen circumstances such as Covid, War or other Force Majeure - in which case delivery will be rescheduled to a later date.
[FEASIBILITY]
The educational material will be prepared over the course of 4 months June/July/August/September and will be released at the end of September.
The education material will be free of charge for the community to use and will be distributed under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) that allows copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format, as well as remixing, transforming, and build upon the material for any purpose including commercial as long as attribution is attribution to the creator is made. The material will be made available on our website.
The workshop material will be divided into 2 sections. The first section for the general public and the second section for the hands-on interaction of the Cardano ecosystem, two types of material will need to be prepared. For the first part Slides will be prepared for each of the sessions and of the second part a Gitbook will be prepared with the set of commands and supporting explanations
The following schedule outlines when supporting material will be prepared. Each month is divided into 4 weeks with any left over days for sundry and feedback requests from the community
1 month - Prepare material for the first day of the workshop
Week1 - Introduction to blockchain. What a blockchain is, what are blocks, what are transactions, who upkeeps the blockchain and how is it different to a centralized infrastructure
Week 2 - Use cases for blockchains. What blockchains are currently being used for (DeFi, Lending, Identity management, Logistics) and Industries for large scale adoption
Week 3 - Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano and other blockchains. Similarities and differences
Week 4 - DeFi, Lending and Remittances. A deep dive into how they work
2 month - Prepare material for the second day of the workshop
Week 1 - What is Cardano and how is it different from the other blockchains. The roadmap and the key deliverables at each of the phases
Week 2 - The trilemma of Decentralization, Scalability and Security - where does Cardano fit in
Week 3 - Building blocks of Cardano - node, stake pools, wallets, UTXOs, smart contracts, onchain vs offchains
Week 4 - Projects Building on Cardano, Djed and Catalyst. How to get involved
3 month - Prepare material for the third day of the workshop
Week 1 - Prepare an image of the virtual machine with Ubuntu
Week 2 - Instructions for compiling the Cardno node, launching and setting the topology information to connect it to the rest of the network (testnet), creating an address and funding it with tADA
Week 3 - Web wallets and differences between Daedalus and web wallets. Advantages and disadvantages of each. Instructions for installing a web wallet sending transactions
Week 4 - Instructions for minting assets and NFTs
4 month - Prepare material for the fourth day of the workshop.
Week 1 - Instruction on how to build and run plutus scripts and how to interact with the smart contract
Week 2 - Document the available community resources: Cardano Forum, Stackexchage, Discord, Telegram channels, Explorer, Plutus Pioneer program
Week 3 - Prepare assignment
Week 4 - Check for consistent wording across all the material and table of content
1 - There will be 8 sets of slide decks for the first 2 days of the workshop for the general public. Each slide deck will support a timeslot lasting around 1:30h and will be between 10 and 20 slides (average 15 slides)
In total 8 decks * 15 slides @ 25 EUR per slide = 3 000 EUR
2 - There will be a Gitbook with instructions for the second 2 days of the workshop and an image for the virtual machine will be created.
Cost to produce the content the same as the slide decks for the first 2 days: 3 000 EUR
TOTAL: 6 000 EUR (6 598 USD)
Dmitry Shibaev will lead the project. Linked in profile: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shibaev/>
Corporate Experience and Speaker at events:
5 years experience in big tech delivering large scale projects on the SAP system at energy companies in south of Europe
15 years experience in financial markets at an investment bank in London, Singapore and Amsterdam.
Built and delivered tools to manage the bank’s capital, balance sheet and trading positions and led large investment projects and ran workshops on how to use them to 300+ participants
Speaker at events:
<https://app.qwoted.com/opportunities/event-liquidity-funding-risk-summit-london-2019>
Builds community tools and has a good knowledge of how Cardano works:
- A wallet connector between DApps and Wallets that gives the boilerplate code for a new dapp developers. This an example of how the web app will interact with the user’s web wallet
Github: <https://github.com/dynamicstrategies/cardano-wallet-connector>
App: <https://dynamicstrategies.io/wconnector>
- A Public GraphQL endpoint with web client letting anyone query the Cardano blockchain from their browser or API.
Github: <https://github.com/dynamicstrategies/cardano-public-graphql>
App: <https://dynamicstrategies.io/gqlclient>
- Staking Reward Calculator synced to the blockchain that shows how much payout can be expected from different pools and analytics around it
App: <https://dynamicstrategies.io/crewardcalculator>
- Cardano Wallet Functions that can be used in React Native apps to communicate with the cardano-wallet backend service
<https://github.com/dynamicstrategies/cardano-wallet-functions>
Received recognition for building community tools at Adafolio:
<https://adafolio.com/portfolio/8f7da192-0257-11eb-9684-a45e60be653b>
Dmitry was part of the first cohort of Plutus Pioneers:
NFT celebrating course completion: <https://pool.pm/asset1357ggsrjp232jwn5g7qqc9zetpsphzdawalgez>
We run a Stake pool on Cardano:
Ticker DSIO registered in 2020, previously received a delegation from Cardano Foundation. Link with pool details: <https://adapools.org/pool/6ae0fb9fc19ad1b82521d6e4b9f6e9bad4d150529673c95c5b5cf4e4>
Active on Cardano forum and Cardano Stack Exchange:
<https://forum.cardano.org/u/dstratio/summary>
<https://cardano.stackexchange.com/users/6196/d-s>
[AUDITABILITY]
A report with the following KPIs will be produced at the end of each month
Documentation KPI
- Number of Slides prepared
- Number pages in the Gitbook
- Virtual machine image prepared
- Reviews of material with community
The project will be a success if 8 slide packs are prepared for the first 2 days of a workshop and made available on our website and a github book is prepared for the other 2 days of the workshop.
Positive feedback from the community
This is a new project
SDG Rating
SDG Goals
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
SDG Subgoals
1.a Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States
9.3 Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets
9.4 By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
9.5 Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending
9.a Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States
9.b Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
9.b.1 Proportion of medium and high-tech industry value added in total value added
9.3.1 Proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added