Expert Solidity Bootcamp

Take your skills to the next level.

  • Learn with an expert instructor

  • Weekly homework and projects to fill up your Github

  • Applications closed — check out our new Advanced Solidity Bootcamp

About the Expert Solidity Bootcamp

A 6-week bootcamp to make you a Solidity expert, taught by the fantastic team at Extropy!

The course is completely free, but highly selective

It consists of daily live Zoom classes (90 minutes, 4 days a week).

It’s taught by a leading instructor and teaching assistants from Extropy

There is daily homework and hacking projects to accelerate personal study

We help place graduates in jobs in the blockchain space

Eligibility and Selection Process

  • The time slot for the Q3 2024 cohort of the Expert Solidity Bootcamp, starting on 18th August, will be announced soon.

  • 50 selected individuals for each cohort. Be sure to stand out!

  • Participants are selected based on their applications and a video interview. Make sure your GitHub and LinkedIn look great before applying!

  • To be eligible for the bootcamps, applicants need to satisfy at least one of the following criteria:

    • 2 years working web3 dev experience,

    • 4 years working web2 dev experience,

    • Exceptional ability demonstrated by public GitHub,

    • Exceptional student credentials (STEM or Computer Science-based degree at a top university),

    • Encode bootcamp graduate, accelerator participant or hackathon prize winner, or

    • Other evidence of exceptional ability.

  • No point in dry lecturing without any practical work in a bootcamp! All the participants will work on weekly homeworks with their teams, as well as on the final project during the final week of the bootcamp.

  • The Bootcamp is completely free! You are required to pay a deposit if accepted—the full deposit will be returned after successful graduation!

  • The Bootcamp is designed to be a part-time commitment. Other than 90-minute daily sessions, you’re required to check Discord for any updates and group tasks.

  • All successful bootcamp graduates receive a certificate, either as a PDF or as an NFT. It serves as an official graduation certificate, which means you can feature it on your CV and LinkedIn profile.

Our Teacher

Laurence Kirk

Laurence Kirk

A long time Encode community member, Laurence is well known in the UK scene as one of the leading educators on blockchain. He leads Extropy.io, a blockchain consultancy based in Oxford, specialising in developing blockchain solutions, security auditing, training & more.

Curriculum



The EVM in detail — memory / storage / opcodes / understanding bytecode

Cryptography — Signatures / Hashes

Solidity advanced function usage

Solidity best practices, useful patterns / tips

Solidity libraries in detail

Essential 3rd party libraries

Auditing approaches, techniques, and tools.

Solidity Assembly — Yul

Gas optimization techniques and measurement

MEV and its mitigation.

Upgradability — advanced patterns.

Development tools : Solidity Template / Advanced Hardhart / Tenderly

Partner Workshops

Project week

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsor

Partners

Previous Expert Solidity bootcamp cohorts