Hey everyone, thanks for joining in. We'll just get started in a minute.
Hey everyone, thank you for joining in. Thank you Sandeepan, Aryan and Raghav. Let's begin
with a quick round of interactions. I'm Apoorva Kohli, a social media manager at Shadyam.
Sandeepan, you go next. Yeah, thanks a lot Apoorva. Hey, hey everyone, this is Sandeepan,
I'm the developer relations manager at Shadyam. Hi everyone, I'm Raghav Jindal. I'm the techy
here at the digital classes where I help in technical part of the development of Shadyam.
Thanks Raghav, thanks Sandeepan. So today we are going to talk about the Shadyam University,
your one-stop gateway to master web 3. So Raghav, tell us about decentralized classes first.
Yes, pleasure. So thank you for having us here. So we build decentralized classes with the mission
of our onboarding next gen of new web 3 developers. So I see it as a very simple way of,
we see when you want no more web 3 developers, you want web 3 to be least to master, right?
Very simple and easiest, you say the process of that is to teach them. Once you teach them
something, you'll be like, okay, once you say that, see this is the protocol, this is the thing,
this is the stuff, they'll get internship, people come build on it. So that's most effective and
probably easiest rather than breaking our head into various ways to onboard new users. The best
way is to teach them and show them the credibility and show them the resources. And this is the
thing, this is the quality of building on and this will also rebuild them interest. So that's
with that keeping motive with me and Aryan, we're building decentralized classes.
So that's the main aim to these are classes we want to just, just to provide to the community.
I have, me being a techie, I have learned from so many free resources, so many online resources,
that's how I came into the space. This is us doing a small favor to the space, again,
giving them back. That's all the whole design class was formed. After this has arrived,
onboard other protocols, starting with our first and the luckiest ones, as we protocol protocols,
we'll teach the students about multiple, there are multiple things to go about this multiple
things to learn about. That's how we are crossing it one by one.
That's great. That's much needed. And congratulations on launching your first course with
Shadyam. So Shadyam, tell us a little about the Shadyam University. How did you come up with
idea of it? Like how, why was there a need for it? Yeah, so it was sort of not very planned,
sort of like we were not actually looking for building a university platform or so it was just
in a call in which I went on a call with Raghav and Aryan and we were just brainstorming. Initially,
it was like the main proposal was like us building courses, like launching some Shadyam courses
on their platform, but like we liked their platform and their team so much that we were like,
why not just build a whole platform based upon Shadyam and its ecosystem? So that's where the
idea originated and it was on a random Google Meet call which wasn't supposed to be even on
that topic. So it's a very interesting start and from there, like we planned it one by one step at
a time and then from there to here is that sort of a journey in which both the teams figured out
what was needed. For the first time, it was the first time for both the teams on how to build a
platform, what are the things needed, the logistics and all and yeah we've collaborated on that front
and that's how exactly how Shadyam University started. Like I've been taking a lot of workshops
and sessions here and there for the past four and five years, technical workshops, but one thing
which I always see is that like you can do a one-hour workshop and you can do a two-hour workshop or
even if you can do a three-hour workshop, but at the end of the day like people learn at their own
pieces. So that is something which is not very much available in that tree. There definitely is
a lot of great platforms nowadays like it's all built in the past one and a half years I would say
a lot of great platforms which have come up but before that there wasn't even that but I think
the target audience is so huge that we definitely need multiple platforms and Shadyam University is
just one of the solutions which we are trying to provide to onboard more developers.
Absolutely, I was just currently reading that the global web tree market is projected to grow by 33
billion by 2030 and still 90 percent of the people I know know so little about the web tree ecosystem.
I see Arjun has joined. Hey Arjun, welcome to the spaces.
Yeah, yeah, GM, what was going on?
It's going great. So tell us a little about your journey with Shadyam,
the center classes and the Shadyam University launch.
Yeah, so introducing myself, myself Arjun, from the COD center classes. So we are building
decentralized tech platform Udemy for web tree basically and Shadyam came into picture with
their university building. So we have built a whole university segment for Shadyam and it's been
a great launch for us as well for first time. His first time is kind of Shadyam, the name itself
is big enough in India as overseas. So it's great launch. I think within 24 hours we have
hit like 33k enrolled users which enrolled in the courses and learning web tree anytime. Yeah.
That's just amazing. We'll come to the numbers later. So let's just dive into the available
courses. Currently there are two available courses. First is introduction to web tree.
So tell us a little about the course and who all can enroll to the course. Is it a
bingo friendly course and all? Yeah, so we launched the platform with two courses. One
is introduction to web tree and one is Shadyam 101. So introduction to web tree is sort of the
mandatory very basic introduction which may not even be developer related like even common web
users who want to learn more about web tree and it's like smaller level things can enroll in that
and like all the courses in Shadyam University will always be open for everyone irrespective of
your background. So like it's I think introduction to web tree is sort of a course for everyone and
then comes the part of Shadyam 101. Shadyam 101 is specifically built on like Shadyam's
architecture. It's still a 101 course a very overview course for everyone anyone who is
interested to learn more about Shadyam. It's value proposition and it's the tech which is
working behind the scenes but yeah these are the two initial courses which we launched the platform.
And I've taken both the courses and I love how simple and easy they are yet they provide so much
information and also my personal favorites are the anecdotes used. Aryan and Raghav would you like
to add something to that? Yeah these are the courses right we do love the how simple it is
so that's how we me and Aalik Sandeep may have called the crossword meets right before this
we just wanted to have the very simple we don't want to add much of jargon much of buzzwords
that's how exactly with Sandeepan try to implement rather than having much of Aalik here and there
that both now okay but simply perfectly explaining the topic which we want people to understand.
I think we are I think Sandeep and the team have served good in that aspect of easily understandable
courses. Yes and how beginner friendly they are right yeah so these are the beginner courses so
what are the future plans are we planning to launch more dev-centric courses or more marketing
based courses so what's the plan for the future? Yeah the future plan is to have it like we have
started with a very developer focused or developer oriented roadway but like the future
plan is to go into all parts of web tree so like people can expect in future courses from marketing
and also fundraising and those kind of courses which are not really uh like which will be unique
to Sandeep universities because those kind of courses are generally not found in a set struck
platform so that's something which we are also planning on but we will continue to have
courses on the tech side also the third course will also be a tech side and it will be a little
bit more advanced course so yeah those that's really related to the plan on the future but like
we have like we are planning to have the platform to be very open and sort of open for contribution
so even in future we can we will be planning to accept high quality courses built by the
community so that's also something which we are planning on but yeah the content of the courses
will always be web tree oriented but it may not be specifically developer centric so this is a
university and university has all kinds of courses it's not just software so we are planning to
integrate that way. That's amazing so for people listening if you have any suggestions for any
courses that you'd like to learn from which you'd like us to add please drop in in the comments
below and if you have any questions related to shaadi university please drop it we'll take them
up at the end of the session. So Sandeepan what will this frequency be like like how many courses
do you plan on launching would it be monthly bi-monthly what is the frequency like?
So initially the plan is to launch a course every two weeks or so but yeah if in the future we have
some active contribution from the community and we like we see courses coming from the community
that we are open to like even increase the frequency even further but as long as we are
building it internally we are trying to make it like we are trying to launch like a course in
every three weeks or so. I'm definitely looking forward to the next course
so I read that there is mentorship and guidance also available in shaadi university
how does that pan along with the courses? Yeah so right now we are in the process of onboarding
users in sort of a direct way with the platform and in future there will be like we are planning
we are planning to have multiple activities tied to it also in which we will also have live webinars
not in the platform itself but for the people who are enrolling in shaadi university courses
so it's going to be sort of in structure in that way but initially we are focusing on user
onboarding and creating more static content so that the platform feels like more content rich
it just has two courses right now which are which can be done within one hour or 1.5 hours
so first we are trying to build more like content on the platform and then we will branch out to
live courses and then like live doubt session because in future we will have some advanced
course also with real world projects so and those will require some more hands-on live
courses so that's when the mentorship part will kick in but yeah it's a little bit further ahead
in the roadmap but right now the main focus is content creation.
That's amazing so interesting. Raghav and Aryan do you have something to add to that?
Yeah so we always believe in the learning ecosystem so we as Decentra class is also
building the whole learning ecosystem for it so you came into learn then earn then you can get
as an elevate as a job as internship so we always believe in learning ecosystem so definitely it's
like a roadway to have the learning ecosystem for shaadium as well starting with the dev mindset
and focusing in all other aspects of the courses yeah looking forward to have like good university
initiatives. Yes and with the numbers that we've started with the response is so overwhelming
Sandeepar, Aryan, Raghav just share the numbers with us with our audience as well.
I think Sandeepan will be best to answer. No no I want you guys to share I think Raghav
will share the numbers. Yeah no actually I do love them having from a tech point of you know
you should just see me for past like before launching you know before today I was just like
it's not crash it's not crash honestly did not crash actually I was just watching the
server every day 24 hours like okay yeah like it's something like no no I built it it's not crash
but yeah it went perfectly get the onboard it was so smooth I think within two days we had around
some 15k visitors just the visitors of the frequently we were 15k there's a visitors count
and people enrolling in the courses therefore for course right now it's 2,500 users and people
have completed a course so for courses around like 1,500 users who have already completed the course
this number actually really did so much wonders even me and Sandeepa we actually had I think we
never thought it will go this much we thought okay yeah it'll be a big launch it'll be a big thing
I thought okay we'll go 500 we'll go 1,000 users I don't know we'll go to 5,000 users in total having
this much of wide range of users coming in enrolling courses completing the course in the same day
it is really wonderful I just love I just watching sitting on the back end I was just
watching the numbers which Sandeepa and I were just keep on increasing it's lovely
yeah at one particular point of time we were just refreshing and I was saying the number just
grow exponentially and the maximum activity was in the first 48 hours of launch and so yeah it
was great to see that yeah I didn't go ahead yeah so Raghav could you share the NFT minting as well
the destination side yeah yeah that was so I hope totally so Indoor users are totally signed in for
courses and the people completed course around like I guess it is 1,500 per course that's your bit
the numbers were so great like I had to do a post on it and I was refreshing it and by the time
the post had to go out the numbers would change yeah totally yeah I gave a confirmation of the
numbers to Apurva I think in the morning and within four hours by the time it got posted
like we had went way past beyond that number so like that that's those are the good problems to
have yeah just introduce your eyes and seeing the numbers know just brightens
so the numbers just show us that how what's the gap in the ecosystem right now like these courses
are so needed in the web3 space that people want to learn so much and there's a gap that the
shardium university is filling so kudos to you guys totally totally yeah appreciated and the
proof of community will make sense now more with the shardium university to have their university
segment so onboarding shardium one-to-one kind of yeah
that's right absolutely so uh I think there was an issue with the NFT minting uh is that solved
and how are you planning to solve it if it's not because a lot of people are asking about it
yeah so the current integration is with the beta net and as everyone like in our community is
aware of we are going through multiple version of grades and changes continuously so there are
some breaking changes in which the NFT minting may not always work but yeah for everyone who
is going through the course right now and who has completed the course we have captured the
wallet addresses of everyone who has connected like completed the course so whenever like either
if you have minted the NFT already like it's well and good or even if not like when when
shardium goes mainnet that you will already be seeing the NFT in your wallet so like those proof
of completion records will always be there so no need to worry regardless of the fact whether
you are able to mint the NFT or not so yeah that's something on the NFT minting
so that's great so everyone who has been asking your NFTs are not lost they are safe with us
yeah for sure like anyone who has completed the course like your wallet is already captured and
like you will get your proof of completion when shardium goes live on mainnet
amazing so i don't see any questions as of now so people if you have any questions for
Sandeepa and Arya and Raghav please drop it in the comments below yeah i would like like
aryan and raghav like you can go ahead and like explain the experience between the platform
building and its features yeah that would be really actually spectacular so i think
as Sandeepa and say no we didn't actually plan exactly on building shardium that wasn't even
part of the idea we came for something else Sandeepa was expecting something else this was
just side of it we was like okay let's try something like that Sandeepa came up with the
idea okay let's create our own university called shardium university then it all made sense okay
yeah it's actually a perfect idea so you'll have a dedicated army of people let's say like you know
shardium once the universe launches no every people in doing that now they're shardians that's
how shardia people call their members of shardian so that's a truly a good thing creating a committee
of own people their own protocols itself rather than having multiple in same place so having a
dedicated platform right look at it a dedicated community dedicated or let's say same like how
other protocols it you know solana there does a gate work exactly that is what mitigated by
shardium that's what the idea was that Sandeepa that idea was the theme you get a same similar
experience of people of contributors of shardium who can't even develop in shardium so that's how
we wanted to build our dedicated platform which actually came out pretty good than how much we
expected the development experience would be really great for me we just went went on back and forth
back and forth so much development all this within just around two months so we thought even I
personally I thought it'll take more time because it's a big thing it's not just a normal platform
trading for bigger masses right we know it'll be a big hit I know it'll be big hit someday
I didn't see this much big I don't okay we'll have 1000 users 1000 fan users not this much big but
still we had a planning okay for this bigger platform it should be perfectly made without
any error because that's the name after this okay yeah yeah it should be perfectly built it should
not have any problems though that doesn't matter we are all learning here the team everyone is
supportive but we want to give a perfect example yeah we can I can build my team can build a good
product so that's all with the two months no it has six totally just building out stuff deploying
it going back and forth the team agreeing if it's how good it is not how should we do some changes
how better use experience should be the most borderline our convocation always centered around
the usage which should be very simple which is what you can see in our platform itself it's not so
hard you're not so many things here are they clustered it just go in there's a course and
only in that complete the course you get an entry there's no much buzz around places like join a
community do this do that join this refer this thing there's nothing we just want them coming
to the course go out that's it and uh saying about the thing like that you can say that there's so
many other platforms also but uh the education system uh the committee is so big that doesn't
matter there's so many platforms the more the better even other platforms have good courses
it's not only you have to learn from shani we've learned from any platform our main aim is for
education we are providing back to companies and deepan is providing back to community we
aren't providing back to committee because we learned from them that's our way to help
others what we learned from someone yeah that's my gift and and it's also not the
it's also not going to be the case that the platform will be just like this about shadim
that about shadim uh like the platform will have many more widely uh generic courses also like the
courses like in evm-based like we are an evm-based blockchain so like courses on the evm courses on
solidity so it's not just going to be about shadim and also like in future we will have courses with
our infrastructure partners uh like axilar and there's zero courses on how you can do
prussian bridging then with oracle so the shadim university is not just going to be
revolving around shadim like it will be a wider broader uh platform for all those kind of courses
so that's something which we are looking forward to and we're planning around
that sounds so great like listening to all of it that brings us to the end of our session do we
have any parting words from sandeepan ajan raghav yeah you guys go ahead first yeah i would just say
keep an eye out because i know sandeepan i know his energy he just won't keep building
staying with him two three months right i just know he has good vision not short terms
but kind of often he wants to build for a longer we just didn't we didn't care that only okay we
did one thing we thought okay we only reason with two courses won't it be less or more it doesn't
matter more or less at least two courses they're learning two things yeah even the two courses are
big thing even launching with one course is a big thing it's not about the attraction it's about
people should learn it the the course should be to a long masses not if not first month maybe
second month or third month so that's his motive to take it in a longer long aspect that that's
what i love about him uh that same he's trying he's trying to build much courses much interactive
courses after this exactly not just tech related but other stuff that would be really helpful
because we don't see that much now even if i see right now there's no my all the things we spoke
out now which we're going to build in the future and we don't have right now currently in our
ecosystem so it'll be really helpful just keep an eye out shardim will keep on building we'll help
shardim in the building aspect and uh we'll just keep on going yeah and definitely from my side
like definitely looking forward to like future milestones as we are also building with shardim so
definitely we are building ecosystem learning ecosystem to have uh onboarding users more on
website yeah turn deep in yeah definitely i think like the launch itself is a testament of how
important it is and how the community like we are building something which the community actually
wants and yeah my my focus right now is hundred percent on the content creation
uh the initial two courses were very basics and for beginners and but the platform should cater
to all level of people so that's what my final goal is uh yeah so i will be much more on the
content creation side on the technical content creation side on on the blockchain level but
even on the platform level i think there is a lot of things which we can improve and add
so we will go through those kind of iterations there will be shardim 2.0 launch shardim
university 2.0 also in future probably so right now it's much more focused on the content but
i already have a lot of plans for shardim university 2.0 a lot of new features and all
so yeah i think we'll look how it goes but yeah the seeing the responses i think there's a lot
we can do even more thank you for your words everyone i really looking forward to the
upcoming courses to shardim university to the people joining in someone is asking
for the recording of this session yes it will be available after this session
thank you sandy one thank you arian thank you raga so much for joining in
taking out time to share your journey with us thank you it is lovely being part of thanks
everyone yeah same here bye bye everyone bye