I've raised developers who build on the Arbitrum ecosystem which meets the 5th goal in the Arbitrum Citizens Round-Specific Eligibility Policies "Community building, devrel, education, etc"
Some of our community-building activities involves setting up web3 Tech Clubs on campuses, to teach them to build on Arbitrum using Solidity.
Here's my impact report.
IMPACT REPORT
I've set up Borderless tech clubs in 6 Universities where University Students are trained to build with Solidity.
The clubs teach non-dev members and dev members on how to interact with Arbitrum Ecosystem, bridge, contribute, do DeFi activities and more.
Take in web2 Dev interns, and teach them about web3 and how they could transition and provide value in the web3 ecosystem.
One of such product of our intern program is Pluto Dev, Favour Ekeleme who is now the Arbitrum Ambassador in the University of Port-Harcourt.
You can check him out here.
https://twitter.com/ekelemefavour1
I've also organized campus tours to spread awareness of web3 and how young people can get on board, I visited 11 Universities recently with my team, and here are a few highlights on 3 of those universities. 🏫University of Port-Harcourt (Uniport)
October 3rd
https://twitter.com/cryptosmartnow/status/1709202346146677167?t=Tc6dtybKCCw-HN74pGmhFA&s=19
https://twitter.com/cryptosmartnow/status/1709202366996656610?t=qSHr_C7LpS4_ZYfPWRNAqw&s=19
🏫Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
October 4th
https://twitter.com/cryptosmartnow/status/1709526699321217423?t=eoJMPYB82j-RTZIzElCHOA&s=19
🏫Rivers State University October 6th
https://twitter.com/cryptosmartnow/status/1710311117770166330?t=2z6zeqHe4MOhMdadfFYurg&s=19
Web3 Events - Here's my last event https://www.youtube.com/live/Odz1Wj2_Kck?si=1naYKT6Oqd3GztIG
Additional Information Funding Sources
Grants
How long have you been working on this project ?
June 2022
What impact do you hope to have (or have had) on the Arbitrum ecosystem with your contribution?
I'm the Founder of Crypto Smart, and in June 2022 last year, I started a Tech-Not-For profit arm of my organisation called B<>rder/ess, we raise developers from the student community for absolutely free.
And a lot of the success of that has to do with my personal input.
It's kind of hard to separate me from the organisation but it really is the same results.
I've highlighted most of the Not-For-Profit work we do which includes:
Raising student developers to learn solidity.
Organising campus tours and meet-ups to educate on web3 infrastructures.
Organising hackathons and physical and virtual training on web3 ecosystem and infrastructure.
One of our successful impacts on the Arbitrum ecosystem lead to an Arbitrum Ambassador in his University.
One of such product of our intern program is Pluto Dev, Favour Ekeleme who is now the Arbitrum Ambassador in the University of Port-Harcourt.
You can check him out here.
https://twitter.com/ekelemefavour1
He went through the B<>rder/ess developers programme and now builds on Arbitrum.
We recently created our official Twitter handle separate from mine and Crypto Smart's so that it'd be easy to release contents.
@BordessDev
https://x.com/BorderlessDev?t=v0d1eOSs_jmXwm66yJ-wtQ&s=09
We've been contributing to the Arbitrum ecosystem both directly and indirectly and our work fits the 5th point on the Arbitrum Citizens Round-Specific Eligibility Policies which is "Community building, devrel, education, etc".
How do you measure your impact? (e.g. viewers, forks, branches, likes, etc)
No of Students Trained
No of Students Graduated
No of Students retained in the Borderless Interns program.
No of projects integrated on the Arbitrum ecosystem by Borderless devs.
No of web3 knowledgeable members trained monthly.
Has this work been previously funded? If so, by who and for how much? Did you participate in another grant program on Arbitrum?
Yes, Gitcoin Grants rounds
How has your work supported the strategic priorities of Arbitrum? https://x.com/ArbitrumGrants/status/1715056760044552449?s=20
One of your Strategic Priorities is Establishing a world-class Dev-Rel program with robust, accessible and responsive tools.
My work has done 3 things to help Arbitrum achieve their goal:
Attracted these intending devs to web3
Educated them
Trained and exposed them with and to these Robust Tools for building and deployment.
Only individuals are accepted, are you a project or an individual?
Yes