5. We’ve designed a
process to bring the
next-generation of talent
to blockchain
Educate • Support • Catalyse
6. Our university
community
We partner with student clubs and
societies at over 125 universities
across six continents.
These clubs and societies have direct
access to students interested in
particular areas like blockchain,
computing and entrepreneurship.
9. July to October
Educational series
Learn about the Polkadot
ecosystem through 8 weekly
events happening virtually
10. Core details
Lasts July to August
Weekly events at Thurs 5.30pm
All happening online
Recorded and uploaded along with slides thereafter
Course material shared alongside the events to learn more
11. Week Event
1 Intro to Blockchain
2 Intro to Polkadot
3 Technical Overview of Polkadot
4 Intro to Substrate
Schedule
Week Event
5 Parachains
6 Non-technical involvement in Polkadot
7 Product Demos
8 Applications in society
Held weekly on a Thursday at 5.30pm GMT+1
15. Accelerator
10 week programme to take
great hackathon and
research projects and help
them become startups within
the Polkadot ecosystem.
16. Life of a startup: we’re bridging the gap
Bright Ideas
Stage
Full grant
Side Project
Stage
Full-Time Job
Stage
Quit job to work
on this
Token/Seed
Investment
The ‘moment before take-off’
Stage
Passion
Project
Accelerator
Hack
Projects
Research
Projects
Weekend
Hackathons
Hopes and
Dreams
17. ● We source the best projects from the hackathon and our community.
● 10-20 teams are selected to take part in the programme, which lasts 10 weeks.
● Each team receives a weekly 1-1 session with our team and a group educational
workshop.
● We help you with everything from idea formulation, technical building, design, product
building and entrepreneurial coaching.
● Receive technical support After the Club, we help them raise and go full-time.
● Small stipend grant for participating
How it works
18. Why projects love it
● Free support, guidance and fundraising help.
● Freedom to iterate and experiment without the pressure of
full-time commitment and investors.
● YC-style support week-by-week our team through a workshop and
one-one session.
● Like-minded people working together towards a common
mission means greater synergy, collaborating and a constant
positive feedback loop and competitive environment.
24. De-ambiguating bitcoin
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency.
It is literally a currency that uses cryptography in some neat way.
It uses a piece of technology called blockchain.
Blockchain is a way for lots of people to cryptographically agree
that something has happened, without needing to trust a
central party.
Cryptography is a method of protecting information and
communications through the use of codes, so that only those
for whom the information is intended can read and process it.
35. Consensus
Mechanism
The rounds of voting are
broken into “blocks” which
are then chained together,
hence the term
“blockchain.”
A well-designed consensus
mechanism gives
mathematically provable
guarantees about
trustworthiness of the
computer as a whole.
Consensus
Consensus mechanism aggregates the “votes” from nodes to determine the
correct operation of the blockchain computer.
36. The result:
The system provides trust guarantees to
anyone using it (since nothing can be
computed without widespread agreement
of the nodes i.e. the consensus mechanism).
37. Techy definition of blockchain:
A virtual computer that runs on top of a network
of physical computers that provides strong,
auditable, game-theoretic guarantees that the
code it runs will continue to operate as designed.
48. KILLER APPS
PCs
Word processing, spreadsheet, desktop publishing
Took advantage of price/size to become ubiquitous
Smartphones
Ride hailing, photo sharing
Took advantage of GPS, camera, connectivity, portability
Blockchains
Trust enables new digital primitives:
Digital money, digital goods, smart contracts, DAOs
Killer apps took advantage of strengths:
Weaknesses diminished over time
