May 24, 2025 • 22 mins
The future belongs to those who can build it, not just use it—and that's the powerful premise behind our latest Tech Talk podcast episode on educating the next generation about Web3. When we discovered that over 400 million people unknowingly use blockchain applications while 99% of schools teach technology like it's 2005, we knew something had to change.
What exactly is Web3? It's not just crypto jargon or technical complexity—it's fundamentally about ownership. Instead of surrendering your data to corporations and juggling dozens of passwords, Web3 gives you one wallet, one identity, and full control over your digital life. It's the difference between renting and owning your online presence. This shift impacts everyone from artists and teachers to future product managers and community leaders.
The exciting announcement at the heart of this episode is the launch of our comprehensive Web3 Digital Identity Curriculum—an eight-week course designed for STEM schools, charter schools, and vocational programs. This isn't theory or hype, but a practical, hands-on program covering blockchain fundamentals, Web3 wallets, NFTs, on-chain credentialing, and digital sovereignty principles. We're launching with a pilot cohort of 10 students who'll not only become our first certified graduates but will receive a $100 USDC "reverse scholarship" for their participation and feedback. The curriculum is non-biased and focuses on the core principles that will prepare students for a blockchain-powered future.
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Speaker 2 (02:37):
Thank you.
Thank you, gm, gm, and welcometo our Tech Talk podcast.
This is a live discussion werecord weekly here on X where we
highlight news, innovation,education, alpha and business
development in the Web3technology and digital identity
space.
I'm your host, marcus aka WynnAirdrop, founder of iHeart
Domains and community manager atFreename resource for unbiased
(03:06):
Web3 domain and blockchain-basededucational content, with over
100 Tech Talk episodes andYouTube videos produced and
archived over the past two and ahalf years.
You can search our entirearchive for prior recordings and
an easy-to-read blog overviewof each episode at
iHeartDomainscom.
Also, all prior recordings areavailable in podcast form on
every major podcast player,including Apple Podcasts,
spotify and iHeartRadio, andthat's easily reachable at
(03:29):
techtalkhost.
To start off with a little bitof opening news, our topic for
today is actually educating ourfuture generations.
I'm very excited to get intothe main topic and also into a
very big announcement.
But back to the opening news.
I've actually pinned a fewthings up at the top.
One of the first things in theopening news is yesterday was
(03:50):
Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day toeverybody who collectively
celebrated across the world.
Yesterday.
We participated as part of theglobal pizza party that is
hosted by PizzaDAO.
We did ours here in San Antonio.
We had a small gathering offriends, you know, talked about
Bitcoin, right, talked aboutblockchain, web3, and we talked
(04:13):
a little bit about some of thesubject that I'm gonna be
talking about today.
But for those of you who aren'tfamiliar with Bitcoin Pizza Day
, it is a day that we have beguncelebrating.
There's a global party orinitiative to throw a global
party each year to celebrate theday.
I believe it was 15 years agoor so, or something close to
that, that a gentleman purchasedtwo pizzas with 10,000 Bitcoin.
(04:38):
At the time that he purchasedthe pizzas, those 10,000 Bitcoin
were worth approximately $18.
As of yesterday, which,coincidentally, was Bitcoin's
all-time high, those pizzaswould have cost $1.1 billion.
So, yeah, every single year,yeah, collectively, across the
globe, we collectively cometogether to basically roast the
(05:00):
guy who wasted $1.1 billion ontwo pizzas.
So yeah, happy Bitcoin pizzaday to everybody.
We celebrated ours last night.
It was a great evening.
I got a chance to see the livestream of everybody else
celebrating from different partsof the globe and, yeah, super
cool experience Looking forwardto next year.
(05:21):
Second thing I wanted to bringup and mention and re-remind
everybody we have built our owndomain or tool called DomainXBT.
I've talked about it quiteoften.
Domainxbt exists not only as achat GPT custom agent that you
can talk to ask to help youbuild things, et cetera, but it
is also now live on X from itsown X profile.
If you see it tweeting,auto-tweeting, anything like
(05:43):
that, you can actually nowinteract with DomainXBT so you
can ask it questions and it willanswer you, and more features
are to come.
Again, I've made a commitmentto continue to explore AI and
what I can do to incorporate AIinto, you know, not only iHeart
(06:03):
domains but into generaloutreach for Web3 digital
identity.
And so DomainXBT is live andit's doing its thing.
So, again, if you're lookingfor either Web2 or Web3
appraisals, if you're lookingfor any tools or tips or
strategies to help build yourportfolios or even build out
websites and landing pages forany of your domains, you are
(06:23):
free to use DomainXBT.
It is a free tool, again onChatGPT, or you can interact
with it directly here on X andyou can follow it at domain
underscore XBT right here on X.
And then, lastly, as always,our registrations are open for
dgen, exchain and defi wallet.
You can easily reach ourregistry at iheartdomainscom.
(06:46):
If you're looking for anawesome Web3 digital identity to
get started that will havefuture benefits and, trust me,
they will have some futurebenefits.
Go ahead and grab your Graildomain early on dot dgen, dot
xchain and dot defi wallet andagain, you can find the links to
register any of those names atiheartdomainscom.
Those are forever domains, soif you register a domain for as
(07:06):
low as $5, you do own it forever.
There are no renewals and youcan mint it to one of any of
eight blockchains.
All righty, all righty.
Now let's get into the maindiscussion Again.
Looking at the top, you can seethe title is Educating Our
Future Generations.
Once again, I do want towelcome everybody to our Tech
(07:30):
Talk podcast where we break downthe future of Web3 identity so
that you can build it todayAgain.
Today's episode is big, it'sbold and I think it is long
overdue.
We're talking about somethingthat affects every parent, every
student, every school and everyentrepreneur.
Why Web3 must become apermanent part of the classroom.
(07:51):
Not a quick workshop, not aguest speaker once a year, not
that crypto thing you hope yourkid figures out later.
I mean real, integrated,future-ready education.
Here's a quick stat, and this isthe stat I found, Whether it's
true or not, I don't know, butthe stat says that over 400
million people now useblockchain-powered apps in some
(08:15):
form, and most of them don'teven know it, and this is how
I've always predicted.
Instead, that most people willget onboarded into Web3 is
through an app that introducesthem through a way that isn't
crypto, but in an event, thesethings still have to be
developed.
99% of schools today they'restill teaching this blockchain
tech like it's 2005.
(08:36):
It's like training pilots withbicycles it's outdated and it's
unfair.
It's like training pilots withbicycles it's outdated and it's
unfair.
The world is obviously moving todecentralized platforms and
dApps, wallet-based logins,on-chain identities, digital
credentials and even tokeneconomies, and if we don't teach
our kids about this now, we'resetting them up to merely be
(08:56):
users and not builders, toconsume the future and not to
create it.
So, before we go further, a lotof people listen to this
podcast that I assume couldpotentially be outside of the
space, maybe hearing what isthis Web3 thing right?
What is this really?
So, before I go any further, Ido want to simplify Web3 for
anybody who listens to this inthe future.
(09:17):
Web3 is basically the nextversion of the internet and it's
the version where you will ownyour identity, your data and
your assets.
Instead of logging into 50websites with your email or
handing over all of yourpersonal info or clicking I
forgot my password every otherweek, web3 gives you one wallet,
one identity, it gives you fullcontrol over that data and it
(09:42):
gives you direct access to appsand opportunities.
It's like moving from rentingyour life to owning it.
And the best part is that,despite the misconceptions, this
isn't just useful for codersand crypto bros.
This is extremely useful forartists, for designers, for
musicians, for teachers, doctors, hr managers literally anyone
(10:04):
who touches tech aka all of us.
Now I want to kind of touch backon schools for a second, right
now again, as I said before,web3 kind of gets treated like a
guest star.
It's like oh, wow, cool, let'sdo this blockchain workshop, but
then one hour later, everyonegets a free sticker or an
(10:25):
airdrop, goes home and forgetsit ever happened.
But that it's just simply notenough.
It's not breaking through.
We don't teach math or anyother fundamental skills with a
guest speaker.
We don't teach internet safetyonce a year in a hallway.
So why are we letting the techthat's supposed to be reshaping
the entire world be treated likean afterthought, like let's,
(10:49):
let's paint this picture, andthis is a real picture that I
got a chance to paint a littlebit during, you know, the pizza
day yesterday.
This is an interestingconversation and I'm glad I got
to show this in person to thefuture generations of who I'm
talking about.
But look at this picture In thenext five years from now.
Not even from the next fiveyears, like right now.
There are literally sites thathave new careers, and more
(11:13):
careers every single day arepopping up extremely fast.
That requires some sort ofblockchain-based knowledge.
You're going to start seeingjobs like Web3 product manager
or DAO community lead or tokenanalyst or something like that.
But even classic jobs likemarketing and HR will need to
understand at some point howwallets work.
At some point in the future,you're going to have to
(11:35):
understand what gas fees are,what it may mean to sign a
transaction or how to verifysomebody's resume or identity on
chain.
If your resume in the futuresays proficient in Microsoft
Word, you're not future-proof.
This isn't sci-fi, this issomething that is already
happening.
Now let me transition into thebig news that I left out until
(11:58):
now, and this is where we intendto take our step and make our
mark.
We're done talking about justabout how schools should teach
the blockchain what we've donehere at iHeart Domains.
We've created a way to showthem I'm extremely thrilled, and
you can see pinned at the topof the space to announce my
(12:18):
latest baby, what I've beenworking on for quite some time,
and this is our Web3 DigitalIdentity Curriculum.
Intended to be a groundbreakingclassroom-ready course, it is
designed for STEM schools, forcharter schools and for
vocational training programs,and it is designed to help bring
the next generation into theworld of Web3 and blockchain.
(12:40):
This isn't theory, this isn'thype.
This is a real course that willhelp prepare students for a
real decentralized future.
As you can see in the pin postat the top, this is a fully it's
the full curriculum, so it isan eight-week course.
These are broken into differentmodules.
These modules cover again Web3,web3, digital Identity and
(13:02):
blockchain from front to back.
Although the title of thecurriculum itself, and although
kind of the overall focus ortheme of the curriculum is based
on digital identity, itliterally covers a lot.
It's a lot of fundamentals thatyou have to learn about
blockchain and Web3.
To understand how domains work,such as Web3 wallets, you need
to understand NFTs and howownership works on the
(13:24):
blockchain.
On-chain credentialing, how tointeract and log into dApps.
Also, blockchain verifiedcertificates and other
credentials that are again againstamped by ownership of your
wallet.
All of these things are thingsthat we will cover throughout
this curriculum Other namingsystems, how traditional DNS
(13:46):
works, what digital identitymeans, both off-chain and
on-chain.
To paint an entire picture notonly of how to interact in Web3,
but what the importance of Web3is to begin with, right, what
pain points does it solve?
How does it help protect yourfuture?
How does it help protect youridentity?
How does it create a better,secure bridge for you to become
(14:08):
monetized or to send and receiveincome?
How does it createself-sovereignty?
These are the things that we'llgo through again at the school
level, where people will absorbit most before they enter into
the world as consumers, beforethey are forced only to interact
rather than build this entire.
This curriculum combines, again,live instruction, interactive
(14:32):
tooling and hands-on projects togive students the skills needed
, uh, to again progress intowhatever other field or course
of store, course of study entersthe most, or their specific
niche on the blockchain, one ofthe things that we're doing, and
so another thing that Imentioned up at the top, and
this is where the community thatwe've built and we've
(14:53):
interacted here with here on Xfor the past couple years comes
into play.
We're actually going to kickoff our curriculum with a
one-time pilot cohort, so we'redoing a sample class.
This will be the first classbefore we release this publicly
or start pitching this publiclyto institutions.
This will be a one-time 10student class, hand-picked and
(15:16):
hand-selected for volunteersfrom our Web 3.0 Native
community.
This group will essentiallytest drive the program.
They'll give feedback to battletest the course and they'll
also become the first certifiedgraduates of this new
educational curriculum.
Now here's the kicker.
I know that people at Web 3like to be incentivized.
(15:37):
No one likes to do anything forfree and it's extremely
valuable feedback that we arereceiving in return for you
completing the course.
So, again, as we recruit thisclass of 10 students and this
team, students do need todedicate to completing the
entire course.
Once they graduate, eachstudent will receive what's
called a reverse scholarship,which will be a reward of $100
(15:58):
USDC in addition to theiron-chain certificate for
completing this course and forgiving us feedback.
Because, again, every singleinteraction, every feedback, all
of this will help shape thisprogram to be more successful
once it does enter into theschool system and then, after
this pilot, the plan is again toscale.
(16:19):
To take the example, take therecording of this curriculum and
begin to use it to demonstratethis to different schools across
the nation, to any school thatneeds this curriculum, to any
business that wants to teachblockchain or Web3 identity to
their workforce.
Wherever the next builders areis where we would like this
curriculum to be, and we wouldalso like to encourage anyone
(16:42):
else who is a specialist in yourfield to start looking at
education in the same way thatwe are looking at it as well,
and this is going to take acollective effort.
Again, we speak of education inalmost every space that I've
been on since I've been in Web 3.
I think education gets broughtup in every single one of them,
and I don't know exactly whatpeople mean or are speaking of
(17:04):
when they say it, but you know,kind of looking at what's been
produced after thoseconversations, I'm assuming that
people think that education issimply just reading something or
telling something aboutsomething, or just showing them
one time how to log intosomething, but again, as I said,
that's not the type ofeducation that sticks and it
only helps really the user baseright, the people that are
(17:29):
coming into the space as users.
You're only educating them toget through it.
The age group the period tostart penetrating, to really get
this into the hands of peoplewho will build the next
generation of apps, is to startgetting this in the schools.
And so we, as educators anybodyin whichever field that you're
in you know, in this case I'm indigital identity, if you're in
(17:50):
AI, if you're in building DAppsor launching tokens or NFTs or
community building let's startcollectively thinking how we can
create different curriculum andcourses that we can start
introducing at the grade schoollevel or the high school level,
so that now, when the nextgeneration of students does exit
school and enters the workforceor enters into the consumer
(18:12):
force, we don't have so much ofan uphill battle explaining the
benefits and the value ofblockchain, and that's not only
for us, but them as well.
You know most.
There's a lot of very lucrativecareers that currently exist.
That, again, they're veryblockchain focused.
They're for new up and comingcompanies that are focused
completely on blockchain, andthere's nowhere for students to
(18:33):
currently go to educatethemselves.
There is no degree program thatcurrently exists for blockchain
.
So how do we create that bridge, or bridge that gap between the
education needed to bring inthe next group of builders to
help continue to grow theseprojects, and our workforce that
doesn't know anything about it?
And again, it's up to us, thoseof us who are KOLs, those of us
(18:55):
who are industry leaders, thoseof us who have built these
platforms, to create thecurriculum ourselves and then
start introducing it andimplementing it ourselves.
And so, in the spirit of, youknow, being the best example
that I possibly can be, we'vecreated this curriculum on our
own, to be a shining light andto be one of the first of our
(19:16):
kind to start spearheading thisinitiative.
So, again, I humbly ask any ofthe people in our community
doesn't matter what namingservice you're from again and
that's another thing too, I dowant to put that out there that
this is a non-biased course.
This course is truly intendedto teach the fundamentals of
(19:36):
blockchain and digital identity,and it teaches it from all
angles.
It touches on all namingservices, all the ones that are
relevant to this particularcourse, and it touches on
everything from a valueperspective.
None of this competition or onename service is better than the
other, or any of that narrativeis being sewn into this
curriculum.
So, no matter what namingservice you're extremely bullish
(19:58):
on, again I ask for yoursupport to not only hype this up
and to start creating, you know, some buzz around this, so that
makes it, you know, a loteasier for schools to receive
this.
But also, if you want toparticipate in the cohort, again
, we are going to have a publiconboarding and selection process
that gets announced here in thenext few weeks, where you can
(20:19):
enroll right If you want to gothrough this course, if you want
to, you know, perfect yourknowledge on Web3 digital
identity and have a certificateto show at the end of it.
We would love for anybody thatcan commit to going through this
program and providing somefeedback to help us do so.
So, again, how do we preparethe next generation for a future
(20:40):
that they may possibly alreadylive in?
We just answered it right bybuilding something real, by
building something teachable andtangible.
Our Web3 digital identitycurriculum isn't just a lesson
plan, it's a movement.
It's about putting ownershipand knowledge in the hands of
the student.
It's about teaching sovereigntyand about teaching
(21:03):
decentralization in theclassroom, and it's the start of
an education that finallymatches the speed of the
innovation that we are currentlypushing forth right now on Web3
.
If you're an educator, ifyou're a founder, a parent or a
student, this is really yourmoment to help us build and help
us grow in the space.
Again, this is anotherinvitation for you to join the
(21:24):
pilot, to partner with us oreven maybe sponsor or recommend
a future builder to join thecurriculum itself as well.
The next Steve Jobs won't be ina boardroom.
He'll be in a DAO with an ENSname and a blockchain resume.
We need to start preparing ourspace for that.
We're not just imagining thatfuture.
We're currently onboarding it.
(21:45):
Remember to always focus onyour mission and not your
conditions.
And again, hopefully thishelped lock in the importance of
educating our future generation, and I look forward to playing
our part in educating the futurewith our Web3 Digital Identity
Curriculum.
Remember to always focus onyour mission and not your
condition.
Thank you for listening to ourTech Talk.
(22:05):
I'll see you guys later onchain.
Thank you.
Thank you, gm, gm, and welcometo our Tech Talk podcast.
This is a live discussion werecord weekly here on X where we
highlight news, innovation,education, alpha and business
development in the Web3technology and digital identity
space.
I'm your host, marcus aka WynnAirdrop, founder of iHeart
Domains and community manager atFreename resource for unbiased
(03:06):
Web3 domain and blockchain-basededucational content, with over
100 Tech Talk episodes andYouTube videos produced and
archived over the past two and ahalf years.
You can search our entirearchive for prior recordings and
an easy-to-read blog overviewof each episode at
iHeartDomainscom.
Also, all prior recordings areavailable in podcast form on
every major podcast player,including Apple Podcasts,
spotify and iHeartRadio, andthat's easily reachable at
(03:29):
techtalkhost.
To start off with a little bitof opening news, our topic for
today is actually educating ourfuture generations.
I'm very excited to get intothe main topic and also into a
very big announcement.
But back to the opening news.
I've actually pinned a fewthings up at the top.
One of the first things in theopening news is yesterday was
(03:50):
Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day toeverybody who collectively
celebrated across the world.
Yesterday.
We participated as part of theglobal pizza party that is
hosted by PizzaDAO.
We did ours here in San Antonio.
We had a small gathering offriends, you know, talked about
Bitcoin, right, talked aboutblockchain, web3, and we talked
(04:13):
a little bit about some of thesubject that I'm gonna be
talking about today.
But for those of you who aren'tfamiliar with Bitcoin Pizza Day
, it is a day that we have beguncelebrating.
There's a global party orinitiative to throw a global
party each year to celebrate theday.
I believe it was 15 years agoor so, or something close to
that, that a gentleman purchasedtwo pizzas with 10,000 Bitcoin.
(04:38):
At the time that he purchasedthe pizzas, those 10,000 Bitcoin
were worth approximately $18.
As of yesterday, which,coincidentally, was Bitcoin's
all-time high, those pizzaswould have cost $1.1 billion.
So, yeah, every single year,yeah, collectively, across the
globe, we collectively cometogether to basically roast the
(05:00):
guy who wasted $1.1 billion ontwo pizzas.
So yeah, happy Bitcoin pizzaday to everybody.
We celebrated ours last night.
It was a great evening.
I got a chance to see the livestream of everybody else
celebrating from different partsof the globe and, yeah, super
cool experience Looking forwardto next year.
(05:21):
Second thing I wanted to bringup and mention and re-remind
everybody we have built our owndomain or tool called DomainXBT.
I've talked about it quiteoften.
Domainxbt exists not only as achat GPT custom agent that you
can talk to ask to help youbuild things, et cetera, but it
is also now live on X from itsown X profile.
If you see it tweeting,auto-tweeting, anything like
(05:43):
that, you can actually nowinteract with DomainXBT so you
can ask it questions and it willanswer you, and more features
are to come.
Again, I've made a commitmentto continue to explore AI and
what I can do to incorporate AIinto, you know, not only iHeart
(06:03):
domains but into generaloutreach for Web3 digital
identity.
And so DomainXBT is live andit's doing its thing.
So, again, if you're lookingfor either Web2 or Web3
appraisals, if you're lookingfor any tools or tips or
strategies to help build yourportfolios or even build out
websites and landing pages forany of your domains, you are
(06:23):
free to use DomainXBT.
It is a free tool, again onChatGPT, or you can interact
with it directly here on X andyou can follow it at domain
underscore XBT right here on X.
And then, lastly, as always,our registrations are open for
dgen, exchain and defi wallet.
You can easily reach ourregistry at iheartdomainscom.
(06:46):
If you're looking for anawesome Web3 digital identity to
get started that will havefuture benefits and, trust me,
they will have some futurebenefits.
Go ahead and grab your Graildomain early on dot dgen, dot
xchain and dot defi wallet andagain, you can find the links to
register any of those names atiheartdomainscom.
Those are forever domains, soif you register a domain for as
(07:06):
low as $5, you do own it forever.
There are no renewals and youcan mint it to one of any of
eight blockchains.
All righty, all righty.
Now let's get into the maindiscussion Again.
Looking at the top, you can seethe title is Educating Our
Future Generations.
Once again, I do want towelcome everybody to our Tech
(07:30):
Talk podcast where we break downthe future of Web3 identity so
that you can build it todayAgain.
Today's episode is big, it'sbold and I think it is long
overdue.
We're talking about somethingthat affects every parent, every
student, every school and everyentrepreneur.
Why Web3 must become apermanent part of the classroom.
(07:51):
Not a quick workshop, not aguest speaker once a year, not
that crypto thing you hope yourkid figures out later.
I mean real, integrated,future-ready education.
Here's a quick stat, and this isthe stat I found, Whether it's
true or not, I don't know, butthe stat says that over 400
million people now useblockchain-powered apps in some
(08:15):
form, and most of them don'teven know it, and this is how
I've always predicted.
Instead, that most people willget onboarded into Web3 is
through an app that introducesthem through a way that isn't
crypto, but in an event, thesethings still have to be
developed.
99% of schools today they'restill teaching this blockchain
tech like it's 2005.
(08:36):
It's like training pilots withbicycles it's outdated and it's
unfair.
It's like training pilots withbicycles it's outdated and it's
unfair.
The world is obviously moving todecentralized platforms and
dApps, wallet-based logins,on-chain identities, digital
credentials and even tokeneconomies, and if we don't teach
our kids about this now, we'resetting them up to merely be
(08:56):
users and not builders, toconsume the future and not to
create it.
So, before we go further, a lotof people listen to this
podcast that I assume couldpotentially be outside of the
space, maybe hearing what isthis Web3 thing right?
What is this really?
So, before I go any further, Ido want to simplify Web3 for
anybody who listens to this inthe future.
(09:17):
Web3 is basically the nextversion of the internet and it's
the version where you will ownyour identity, your data and
your assets.
Instead of logging into 50websites with your email or
handing over all of yourpersonal info or clicking I
forgot my password every otherweek, web3 gives you one wallet,
one identity, it gives you fullcontrol over that data and it
(09:42):
gives you direct access to appsand opportunities.
It's like moving from rentingyour life to owning it.
And the best part is that,despite the misconceptions, this
isn't just useful for codersand crypto bros.
This is extremely useful forartists, for designers, for
musicians, for teachers, doctors, hr managers literally anyone
(10:04):
who touches tech aka all of us.
Now I want to kind of touch backon schools for a second, right
now again, as I said before,web3 kind of gets treated like a
guest star.
It's like oh, wow, cool, let'sdo this blockchain workshop, but
then one hour later, everyonegets a free sticker or an
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airdrop, goes home and forgetsit ever happened.
But that it's just simply notenough.
It's not breaking through.
We don't teach math or anyother fundamental skills with a
guest speaker.
We don't teach internet safetyonce a year in a hallway.
So why are we letting the techthat's supposed to be reshaping
the entire world be treated likean afterthought, like let's,
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let's paint this picture, andthis is a real picture that I
got a chance to paint a littlebit during, you know, the pizza
day yesterday.
This is an interestingconversation and I'm glad I got
to show this in person to thefuture generations of who I'm
talking about.
But look at this picture In thenext five years from now.
Not even from the next fiveyears, like right now.
There are literally sites thathave new careers, and more
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careers every single day arepopping up extremely fast.
That requires some sort ofblockchain-based knowledge.
You're going to start seeingjobs like Web3 product manager
or DAO community lead or tokenanalyst or something like that.
But even classic jobs likemarketing and HR will need to
understand at some point howwallets work.
At some point in the future,you're going to have to
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understand what gas fees are,what it may mean to sign a
transaction or how to verifysomebody's resume or identity on
chain.
If your resume in the futuresays proficient in Microsoft
Word, you're not future-proof.
This isn't sci-fi, this issomething that is already
happening.
Now let me transition into thebig news that I left out until
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now, and this is where we intendto take our step and make our
mark.
We're done talking about justabout how schools should teach
the blockchain what we've donehere at iHeart Domains.
We've created a way to showthem I'm extremely thrilled, and
you can see pinned at the topof the space to announce my
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latest baby, what I've beenworking on for quite some time,
and this is our Web3 DigitalIdentity Curriculum.
Intended to be a groundbreakingclassroom-ready course, it is
designed for STEM schools, forcharter schools and for
vocational training programs,and it is designed to help bring
the next generation into theworld of Web3 and blockchain.
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This isn't theory, this isn'thype.
This is a real course that willhelp prepare students for a
real decentralized future.
As you can see in the pin postat the top, this is a fully it's
the full curriculum, so it isan eight-week course.
These are broken into differentmodules.
These modules cover again Web3,web3, digital Identity and
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blockchain from front to back.
Although the title of thecurriculum itself, and although
kind of the overall focus ortheme of the curriculum is based
on digital identity, itliterally covers a lot.
It's a lot of fundamentals thatyou have to learn about
blockchain and Web3.
To understand how domains work,such as Web3 wallets, you need
to understand NFTs and howownership works on the
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blockchain.
On-chain credentialing, how tointeract and log into dApps.
Also, blockchain verifiedcertificates and other
credentials that are again againstamped by ownership of your
wallet.
All of these things are thingsthat we will cover throughout
this curriculum Other namingsystems, how traditional DNS
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works, what digital identitymeans, both off-chain and
on-chain.
To paint an entire picture notonly of how to interact in Web3,
but what the importance of Web3is to begin with, right, what
pain points does it solve?
How does it help protect yourfuture?
How does it help protect youridentity?
How does it create a better,secure bridge for you to become
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monetized or to send and receiveincome?
How does it createself-sovereignty?
These are the things that we'llgo through again at the school
level, where people will absorbit most before they enter into
the world as consumers, beforethey are forced only to interact
rather than build this entire.
This curriculum combines, again,live instruction, interactive
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tooling and hands-on projects togive students the skills needed
, uh, to again progress intowhatever other field or course
of store, course of study entersthe most, or their specific
niche on the blockchain, one ofthe things that we're doing, and
so another thing that Imentioned up at the top, and
this is where the community thatwe've built and we've
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interacted here with here on Xfor the past couple years comes
into play.
We're actually going to kickoff our curriculum with a
one-time pilot cohort, so we'redoing a sample class.
This will be the first classbefore we release this publicly
or start pitching this publiclyto institutions.
This will be a one-time 10student class, hand-picked and
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hand-selected for volunteersfrom our Web 3.0 Native
community.
This group will essentiallytest drive the program.
They'll give feedback to battletest the course and they'll
also become the first certifiedgraduates of this new
educational curriculum.
Now here's the kicker.
I know that people at Web 3like to be incentivized.
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No one likes to do anything forfree and it's extremely
valuable feedback that we arereceiving in return for you
completing the course.
So, again, as we recruit thisclass of 10 students and this
team, students do need todedicate to completing the
entire course.
Once they graduate, eachstudent will receive what's
called a reverse scholarship,which will be a reward of $100
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USDC in addition to theiron-chain certificate for
completing this course and forgiving us feedback.
Because, again, every singleinteraction, every feedback, all
of this will help shape thisprogram to be more successful
once it does enter into theschool system and then, after
this pilot, the plan is again toscale.
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To take the example, take therecording of this curriculum and
begin to use it to demonstratethis to different schools across
the nation, to any school thatneeds this curriculum, to any
business that wants to teachblockchain or Web3 identity to
their workforce.
Wherever the next builders areis where we would like this
curriculum to be, and we wouldalso like to encourage anyone
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else who is a specialist in yourfield to start looking at
education in the same way thatwe are looking at it as well,
and this is going to take acollective effort.
Again, we speak of education inalmost every space that I've
been on since I've been in Web 3.
I think education gets broughtup in every single one of them,
and I don't know exactly whatpeople mean or are speaking of
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when they say it, but you know,kind of looking at what's been
produced after thoseconversations, I'm assuming that
people think that education issimply just reading something or
telling something aboutsomething, or just showing them
one time how to log intosomething, but again, as I said,
that's not the type ofeducation that sticks and it
only helps really the user baseright, the people that are
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coming into the space as users.
You're only educating them toget through it.
The age group the period tostart penetrating, to really get
this into the hands of peoplewho will build the next
generation of apps, is to startgetting this in the schools.
And so we, as educators anybodyin whichever field that you're
in you know, in this case I'm indigital identity, if you're in
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AI, if you're in building DAppsor launching tokens or NFTs or
community building let's startcollectively thinking how we can
create different curriculum andcourses that we can start
introducing at the grade schoollevel or the high school level,
so that now, when the nextgeneration of students does exit
school and enters the workforceor enters into the consumer
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force, we don't have so much ofan uphill battle explaining the
benefits and the value ofblockchain, and that's not only
for us, but them as well.
You know most.
There's a lot of very lucrativecareers that currently exist.
That, again, they're veryblockchain focused.
They're for new up and comingcompanies that are focused
completely on blockchain, andthere's nowhere for students to
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currently go to educatethemselves.
There is no degree program thatcurrently exists for blockchain
.
So how do we create that bridge, or bridge that gap between the
education needed to bring inthe next group of builders to
help continue to grow theseprojects, and our workforce that
doesn't know anything about it?
And again, it's up to us, thoseof us who are KOLs, those of us
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who are industry leaders, thoseof us who have built these
platforms, to create thecurriculum ourselves and then
start introducing it andimplementing it ourselves.
And so, in the spirit of, youknow, being the best example
that I possibly can be, we'vecreated this curriculum on our
own, to be a shining light andto be one of the first of our
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kind to start spearheading thisinitiative.
So, again, I humbly ask any ofthe people in our community
doesn't matter what namingservice you're from again and
that's another thing too, I dowant to put that out there that
this is a non-biased course.
This course is truly intendedto teach the fundamentals of
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blockchain and digital identity,and it teaches it from all
angles.
It touches on all namingservices, all the ones that are
relevant to this particularcourse, and it touches on
everything from a valueperspective.
None of this competition or onename service is better than the
other, or any of that narrativeis being sewn into this
curriculum.
So, no matter what namingservice you're extremely bullish
(19:58):
on, again I ask for yoursupport to not only hype this up
and to start creating, you know, some buzz around this, so that
makes it, you know, a loteasier for schools to receive
this.
But also, if you want toparticipate in the cohort, again
, we are going to have a publiconboarding and selection process
that gets announced here in thenext few weeks, where you can
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enroll right If you want to gothrough this course, if you want
to, you know, perfect yourknowledge on Web3 digital
identity and have a certificateto show at the end of it.
We would love for anybody thatcan commit to going through this
program and providing somefeedback to help us do so.
So, again, how do we preparethe next generation for a future
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that they may possibly alreadylive in?
We just answered it right bybuilding something real, by
building something teachable andtangible.
Our Web3 digital identitycurriculum isn't just a lesson
plan, it's a movement.
It's about putting ownershipand knowledge in the hands of
the student.
It's about teaching sovereigntyand about teaching
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decentralization in theclassroom, and it's the start of
an education that finallymatches the speed of the
innovation that we are currentlypushing forth right now on Web3
.
If you're an educator, ifyou're a founder, a parent or a
student, this is really yourmoment to help us build and help
us grow in the space.
Again, this is anotherinvitation for you to join the
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pilot, to partner with us oreven maybe sponsor or recommend
a future builder to join thecurriculum itself as well.
The next Steve Jobs won't be ina boardroom.
He'll be in a DAO with an ENSname and a blockchain resume.
We need to start preparing ourspace for that.
We're not just imagining thatfuture.
We're currently onboarding it.
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Remember to always focus onyour mission and not your
conditions.
And again, hopefully thishelped lock in the importance of
educating our future generation, and I look forward to playing
our part in educating the futurewith our Web3 Digital Identity
Curriculum.
Remember to always focus onyour mission and not your
condition.
Thank you for listening to ourTech Talk.
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I'll see you guys later onchain.
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