Introduction to Avalanche Academy: The Ultimate Learning Hub on Avalanche
Avalanche Academy serves as the ultimate resource for blockchain and entrepreneurial education, providing builders with the tools they need to drive ecosystem innovation.
Understanding how to deploy DApps and L1s on Avalanche doesn’t have to be a complex journey. Avalanche provides a suite of full-stack resources and tools designed to help builders easily navigate building in the ecosystem, and one of these resources is the Avalanche Academy. The aim of the academy is to expose builders, creators and Avalanche ecosystem explorers to the right information to ensure proper decision making within the ecosystem and facilitate the creation of enterprise grade applications.
What is Avalanche Academy?
Avalanche Academy is the platform for builders, creators or onchain explorers looking to utilise or understand the Avalanche network, its core principles and how to easily launch and scale market-friendly applications without sacrificing speed and security.
Avalanche Academy offers a suite of courses available for builders of all levels to build the relevant knowledge on blockchain, Avalanche L1 infrastructure and web3 venture scaling.
Avalanche Academy has three majors:
1. Blockchain Academy:
This academy offers courses on blockchain, development and privacy fundamentals for builders/creators new to the blockchain space or seeking specific or expert knowledge. The blockchain academy covers:
Blockchain Fundamentals
Solidity Starter Kit
Basics of NFT Deployment
x402 Payment Integration on Avalanche and
Encrypted ERC for privacy-focused applications.
2. Avalanche L1 Academy
Master the art of building on Avalanche with the L1 Academy, where builders and creators learn to launch sovereign L1s and build interconnected, cross-chain dApps.
The modules here include:
Avalanche Fundamentals: Learn about Avalanche’s unique consensus mechanism, multichain architecture and virtual machines.
Interoperability:
Interchain Messaging: Master how to build apps that leverage Avalanche ICMs and how to transfer assets between chains using interchain messaging.
ERC20 Bridge: Learn how to bridge between ERC20 tokens using Interchain token transfer.
Native Token Bridge: Learn how to build a cross-chain L1 with in-built token bridging
L1 Development: Learn how to create and manage permissioned blockchains with Proof of Stake and Proof of Authority consensus mechanism.
L1 Native Tokenomics: Understand how to design L1 economics with custom token, native minting rights and transaction fees.
EVM Customisation: Understand the process for adding custom precompiles, how to configure the EVM and how to restrict access to control patterns.
3. Entrepreneur Academy
The Entrepreneur Academy is for founders or creators looking to learn web3 native steps to building successful ventures, marketing products and fundraising.
This academy covers:
Web3 Venture Foundation: Master the essentials of establishing a blockchain business.
Go to Market Strategy: Master Go-To-Market and business strategies for web3 products and services.
Web3 Community Building: Master building and retaining a thriving community in Web3.
Fundraising & Finance: Master fundraising and financial management in Web3.
This is where the real builders prepare for onchain realities.
Benefits Of Avalanche Academy
1. Free and Certified Learning: Avalanche Academcy is free, available, easy to navigate and offers certificates to participants upon completion.
2. Easy to Digest: Courses in the academy are easy to digest with specified timing, all under 1-4 hours per course, and quick access toggles.
3. Beginner-Friendly: The academy is beginner-friendly and well-equipped for builders of diverse skill and knowledge levels to get quality onboarding.
4. More Education = More Quality DApps: With open access to the academy, the avalanche community can create more quality DApps and deploy more L1s solving specific problems within the blockchain space.
5. The Bigger Picture: The Avalanche Academy is very easy to access but has a direct impact in the growth of the Avalanche ecosystem. By empowering builders, it can result in increase in hackathon participations, ecosystem applications, users, onchain activity and revenue leading to the overall growth of the network.
Start Your Journey
Avalanche Academy is the definitive resource for mastering the network’s unique architecture and launching production-ready applications. Whether you are deploying your first smart contract or architecting a custom L1, the tools you need are one click away.
Join the Academy for free: build.avax.network/academy
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