Celo & Figment Learn Pathway

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Why Build on Celo?

Celo is a mobile-first, open sourced smart contract platform built on decentralized infrastructure. Celo is designed to make financial tools like banking, peer-to-peer transfers, payments, and stablecoins accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. 

Celo offers: 

• Extremely fast and secure synchronization
• Native support for multiple ERC20-like stable currencies
• Gas payable in multiple currencies
• Programmable smart contract platform compatible with EVM
• Highly scalable and permissionless BFT consensus
• Decentralized identity system that allows users to easily send payments to phone numbers

The Celo ecosystem consists of a community of developers, designers, dreamers, and doers actively working towards creating a global financial system that creates prosperity for everyone. 

Figment Learn

At Figment, team care about the long term growth and longevity of the Web 3 ecosystem and team understand what developers need to build the next great decentralized application, which is why team have launched Figment Learn.

Learn provides developers with: 

• Free and easy access to the protocols necessary to power their applications via DataHub, highly available full node infrastructure.
• Access to written and streamable educational materials and a diverse community built around learning and fostering ecosystem development.
• Opportunities for developers to earn tokens for completing tutorials and contributing to the community.

Team see Figment Learn as the Web 3 Knowledge base that will drive development and grow the Web 3 ecosystem to new heights.

The Celo Learn Pathway

The Celo Learn Pathway allows developers to earn cUSD while gaining the knowledge they need to build mobile-first financial applications on Celo. Team will be distributing $50,000 in cUSD to developers who actively complete tutorials and contribute to the community by creating their own tutorials and supporting the growth of the ecosystem.

How to get Involved

Complete Tutorials – $100 in cUSD to first 150 developers, then $20 in cUSD

Developers eager to learn how to build on Celo while earning cUSD need to first create a DataHub account. DataHub will provide you free and easy access to Celo’s RPC, which will allow you to complete the Celo Pathway tutorials.

• Celo Learn Pathway Tutorials

You can verify that you have completed tutorials correctly on DataHub.

Once you have completed all the tutorials, that’s it. You have learned the basics of building on Celo and have earned $100 in cUSD.

Become a Contributor – $500 in cUSD

More experienced developers have the opportunity to earn cUSD by contributing to the Celo Learn developer community. Simply fill out this form to get started.

Extra Opportunities – $5 – $100 in cUSD

Developers also have the opportunity to earn cUSD by sharing on Twitter, writing an article on Medium, or by contributing a meaningful piece of software on GitHub.

Simply fill out this form and include direct links to your contributions.

Extra Celo Pathway Challenges

Celo is providing Bonus Activity Rewards for additional activities following the completion of the Celo Pathway tutorials. Complete any of these challenges and earn more cUSD tokens!

Simply fill this form and include direct links for our reference. Bonus Activity Rewards will be given out at the discretion of the reviewer. Please provide any context you would like us to consider to maximize your Bonus Activity Reward.

Twitter ($5 in cUSD each)

1. Post a lesson learned about the Celo platform, tools, community, etc.

2. Post a screenshot of what you just built with Celo

3. Share a public link to a repository with your code

4. Start a debate about the pros / cons of Celo

5. Launch a meme war with Celo prominently featured

Medium ($20 in cUSD each, 1500-2000 words each)

1. Recount your Celo learning experience

2. Share your ideas for improving the Celo developer experience

3. Describe the business case for a DApp that should be built on Celo

4. Write a list of the key features you discovered about Celo

5. Compare Celo with another technology, blockchain or otherwise

Github ($50 in cUSD each up to 1 max of meaningful piece of software)

1. Build a demo of an interesting Celo feature

2. Integrate Celo with a popular framework

3. Adapt a popular, existing system to use Celo

4. Extend an existing Celo sample into something better

5. Contribute to the Celo codebase

Important Links:

• Celo DataHub Sign-up/Login
• Celo Learn Pathway
• DataHub Community Discord