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Layer-0 Developer Academy

Learning paths

A path is an ordering of the catalogue, not separate content. Durations assume roughly ten hours a week; the workshops themselves carry the prerequisites.

From complete beginner to developer

Ship a tested, versioned application connected to a blockchain, and understand what happens beneath the interface.

Audience
No programming experience required. Students, career changers, public-sector staff.
Weeks
16
workshops
20
taught hours
66
  1. L0

    Computing and cryptographic foundations

    Foundation
  2. L0

    Consensus and the anatomy of a chain

    Foundation
  3. L1

    Tooling and a first delivery

    Blockchain developer

Polkadot / Substrate engineer

Build and operate an application chain attached to a Relay Chain, exchanging over XCM.

Audience
Level 1 certified developers targeting runtime engineering and shared security.
Weeks
24
workshops
28
taught hours
113

Assumes already covered

16 earlier workshops, chiefly from the Foundation track.

  1. L1

    Rust and network architecture

    Blockchain developer
  2. L2

    Runtime engineering

    Appchain developer
  3. L2

    Evolution, openness and delivery

    Appchain developer
  4. L3

    Network, XCM and operations

    Infrastructure engineer

Cosmos SDK engineer

Build a complete sovereign chain and connect it to another chain over IBC.

Audience
Level 1 certified developers targeting chain sovereignty and the interchain.
Weeks
24
workshops
22
taught hours
83

Assumes already covered

20 earlier workshops, chiefly from the Foundation track.

  1. L1

    Go and Cosmos architecture

    Blockchain developer
  2. L2

    Sovereign chain and modules

    Appchain developer
  3. L2

    Economics, governance and quality

    Appchain developer
  4. L3

    IBC and the interchain

    Infrastructure engineer

Avalanche engineer

Launch an application L1, deploy an application on it and link it to a second chain.

Audience
Level 1 certified developers targeting fast deployment of application chains.
Weeks
20
workshops
17
taught hours
61

Assumes already covered

23 earlier workshops, chiefly from the Foundation track.

  1. L1

    Architecture and consensus

    Blockchain developer
  2. L2

    Deploying and configuring your L1

    Appchain developer
  3. L2

    Validators and application

    Appchain developer
  4. L3

    Messaging, operations and delivery

    Infrastructure engineer

Modular blockchain engineer

Build, publish and operate a sovereign rollup whose state rebuilds from the data layer alone.

Audience
Level 1 certified developers comfortable with theory and targeting sovereign rollups.
Weeks
20
workshops
18
taught hours
63

Assumes already covered

19 earlier workshops, chiefly from the Foundation track.

  1. L1

    Modularity and data availability

    Blockchain developer
  2. L2

    Operating the data layer

    Appchain developer
  3. L2

    Building the rollup

    Appchain developer
  4. L3

    Proofs, costs and operations

    Infrastructure engineer

Blockchain infrastructure engineer

Operate validators and a public RPC service, with monitoring, backups and rehearsed recovery.

Audience
Systems administrators, cloud engineers and appchain developers specialising.
Weeks
18
workshops
15
taught hours
55

Assumes already covered

19 earlier workshops, chiefly from the Foundation track.

  1. L2

    Infrastructure as code

    Appchain developer
  2. L3

    Deployment and observability

    Infrastructure engineer
  3. L3

    Continuity and public service

    Infrastructure engineer

Blockchain security engineer

Run a complete security assessment, from protocol to procedures, and defend every finding.

Audience
Infrastructure engineers and appchain developers targeting audit and defence.
Weeks
18
workshops
14
taught hours
51

Assumes already covered

30 earlier workshops, chiefly from the Foundation track.

  1. L2

    Method and custody

    Appchain developer
  2. L3

    Hardening and exposed surface

    Infrastructure engineer
  3. L3

    Attacks and response

    Infrastructure engineer
  4. L4

    Proving ground and full assessment

    Blockchain architect

Blockchain architect

Design and defend a production blockchain infrastructure for a real national need.

Audience
Senior engineers who have shipped at least one application chain and one infrastructure.
Weeks
20
workshops
15
taught hours
55

Assumes already covered

93 earlier workshops, chiefly from the Foundation track.

  1. L3

    Measured interoperability

    Infrastructure engineer
  2. L4

    Decisions and incentives

    Blockchain architect
  3. L4

    Governance, scale and security

    Blockchain architect
  4. L4

    Institutions and the national capstone

    Blockchain architect