Education

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We research blockchain topics and figure out how they work & why they matter. Then, we create educational, approachable, & entertaining content made for anyone!

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Current Initiatives

📚Onboarding Docs

Why: The industry needs to make it easy for new people to learn about web3

What: Create the best onboarding docs in the industry

Topics: intro to web3, intro to blockchain development, intro to NFTs, intro to DeFi, intro to DAOs

👨🏾‍🎓Special Interest Group Research

Why: To keep learning about new topics and push our understanding of the whole ecosystem

How: Small groups dive deep on a crypto topic, generate educational content, & present

Potential Topics: Alt L1s, L2s, DEXs/AMMs, How to run an NFT project, PoS implementations

🐦Twitter Threads

Why: Learn crypto topics & Illini Blockchain updates through concise twitter threads

How: Education Team researches and displays what they learn to your Twitter feed.

Topics: Anything from blockchain tech explanations to meeting updates for community events.

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👥DAO Community Outsourcing

Why: Community members can contribute to Illini Blockchain and develop an on-chain reputation

How: members/community propose an initiative, person submits a solution, members edit/approve, DAO publishes the work, person mints an NFT or receives a token

Potential Topics: re-design logo, blog posts, tweet threads, internal project development

✍️Blog Posts

What: We post long form blog posts that holistically explain complex crypto topics. If a 10 is an expert on a topic and a 0 knows nothing, we take people to a 4.

Why: Dive into complex crypto topics and offer simplified, in depth explanations of them to the public.

How: After a long research session, the writers will focus on giving different images and analogies to help make crypto topics easier to understand.

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The Purpose of The Blog

Bitcoin Under The Hood: How It Really Works

Ethereum Under The Hood: A Decentralized Computer

Resource Pool

For people to go down their own rabbithole:

📋[OLD] Down the Rabbit Hole📚Resources Database

For people to stay up to date with the industry & continue to learn:

For people to go all in on web3 and take it full-time:

🧙🏽‍♂️Crypto Jobs/Internships

Older Versions

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