The BSV Academy is an online education platform for professionals which offers academia-quality, university-style courses, and a range of learning materials. Speaking at the sidelines of the London Blockchain Conference 2024, Todd Price (Curriculum Specialist at BSV Blockchain) explained that the Academy is responsible for creating a range of educational content to educate people on all aspects of the BSV blockchain.
‘We’ve got a range of initiatives. Some of them are just introducing the idea of blockchain to people worldwide in some broad-scale initiatives,’ he said. Others are more bespoke, where we’re creating custom courses for academic institutions to allow them to bootstrap a curriculum in blockchain, digital transformations, Web3 or whatever they’re asking for.’
Price noted that he had just finished delivering a programme in South-East Asia, where he and his team provided a course on blockchain and Web3. ‘It was providing the full stack of BSV blockchain’s applications in a Web3 and digital transformation context. (This included) taking the students through triple-entry accounting, the basics of blockchain, and its application in various sectors,’ he said.
He added that some of the most popular topics which were covered by the course included:
- Supply chains;
- Digital identity;
- Web3 and its intersection with AI.
- Data sovereignty.
The challenges and advantages of blockchain education
While the BSV Academy has continued to grow from strength to strength, Price noted that there are still some challenges with providing education in the sector. This includes a lack of clear and best practices when developing content.
‘So until now, we have been teaching things at a higher level of what’s theoretically possible,’ he said. ‘But as some of the products are emerging and coming into form, it’s an exciting new phase where we can start to reference best practices and set people on a trajectory which is going to ensure success rather than incurring a bunch of technical debt and going down to a dead end in development.’
The Mandala upgrade – An exciting new era for the BSV blockchain
Price pointed to the upcoming Mandala upgrade, which will be instrumental in allowing for the unbounded scalability of the BSV blockchain.
BSV Blockchain officially unveiled its new Mandala Upgrade at the BSV DevCon London at the end of May 2024. The upgrade will fully unlock the BSV blockchain allowing it to dynamically scale at an exponential rate so it’s ready to meet the growing demand for trusted data.
‘It’s really about the specialisation of your business and only dealing with the transactions that are relevant to you. And relying on that SPV methodology to provide the data integrity checks against the global blockchain,’ he said,
‘The SPV wallet is the fundamental piece of technology that enables the transactions to be generated in a way that can then be kept track of on an overlay system. And then that ensures that the data that’s going to the blockchain is all packaged in a way that they’re going to be able to deal with most optimally and eliminate their burden for data retrievals and fetch operations, which inhibits their capacity to scale.’
Todd added that the Mandala network topology is a really exciting new era for the blockchain. ‘Having the SPV wallet as a fundamental piece of architecture in there and then the new era of having the overlay node – it’s going to be exciting watching what people come up with,’ he said.
