Cohort one content & calendar
Month 1 - learning and exploring (start building whenever you’re ready)
⛳ Milestone - present an idea that you want to pursue
Week 1 - 26 September
🚀 Kickoff call - 26 September @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Week 2 - 3 October
📗 Lesson 1 - Introduction to Celestia and the Cosmos SDK (Nader and Yaz)
- Monday 3 October @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- Welcome to Celestia Modular Fellows Cohort 1! This lesson is a high-level overview and description of what Celestia and the Cosmos SDK are.
- Lesson #1 - Introduction to Celestia and the Cosmos SDK with Nader and Yaz (Recording)
🧑🏫 Office Hour
- Wednesday 5 October @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Week 3 - 10 October
📗 Lesson 2 - Building a sovereign rollup with Ignite and Rollkit on Celestia with Yaz
- Monday 10 October @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- Lesson 2 will cover building a sovereign rollup with Rollkit and Celestia using Ignite CLI and Cosmos-SDK. Yaz will demonstrate how to build a Wordle sovereign rollup on Celestia.
- Lesson #2 - Building a sovereign rollup with Ignite & Rollkit on Celestia with Yaz (Recording)
🧑🏫 Office Hour
- Wednesday 12 October @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Week 4 - 17 October
🪧 Present your idea
- Wednesday 19 October @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Month 2 - designing & implementing a basic prototype
⛳ Milestone - present the prototype for feedback
Week 5 - 24 October
📗 Lesson 3 - Introduction to Fuel with Emily Herbert
- Monday 24 October @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- In this lesson, Emily Herbert will teach us about Fuel, the world's fastest Modular Execution Layer. Fuel delivers maximum security and the highest flexible throughput.
- Lesson #3 - Introduction to Fuel with Emily Herbert (Recording)
🧑🏫 Wednesday Office Hour
- 26 October @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
🧠 Modular Insights with Skip Protocol
- Friday 28 October @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- Skip Protocol is on a mission to help blockchains achieve financial sustainability and power better user experiences by building transparent blockspace markets to connect traders and blockchains.
- MEV infrastructure for modular blockchains: Skip protocol (Modular Insights #2) (Recording)
Week 6 - 31 October
🧑🏫 Thursday Office Hour
- 3 November - @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Week 7 - 7 November
📗 Lesson 4 - Introduction to Astria with Josh Bowen
- Monday 7 November @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- In this lesson, Josh Bowen will teach us about Astria. Astria is an EVM-compatible settlement layer built with Ethermint, Cosmos SDK, and Rollkit.
- Lesson #4 - Introduction to Settlement Layers and Astria with Josh Bowen (Recording)
🧑🏫 Office Hour
- Wednesday 9 November @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Week 8 - 14 November
✋ Modular Fellows AMA with Evan Forbes
- Monday 14 November @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- AMA with Evan Forbes of Celestia (Recording)
✋ Modular Fellows AMA with Dr. Mustafa Al-Bassam
- Tuesday 15 November @ 10am EST / 3pm UTC / 4pm CEST
🧑🏫 Wednesday Office Hour
- 16 November @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
✋ Modular Fellows AMA with Zaki Manian
- Friday 18 November @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Week 9 - 21 November
📗 Lesson 5 - Quantum Gravity Bridge with Evan Forbes
- Monday 21 November @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- In this lesson, Evan Forbes will teach us about the Quantum Gravity Bridge (Blobstream) and layer 2s. Blobstream proves that some data was posted on Celestia. Rollups use the this bridge to provide strong data availability guarantees for block data at a fraction of the cost of
calldata
on Ethereum.
- In this lesson, Evan Forbes will teach us about the Quantum Gravity Bridge (Blobstream) and layer 2s. Blobstream proves that some data was posted on Celestia. Rollups use the this bridge to provide strong data availability guarantees for block data at a fraction of the cost of
- Lesson #5 - Quantum Gravity Bridge with Evan Forbes (Recording)
✋ Modular Fellows AMA with Ismail Khoffi
- Tuesday 22 November - @ 11:30am EST / 4:30pm UTC / 5:30pm CEST
- AMA with Ismail Khoffi of Celestia (Recording)
🪧 Present your project prototype
- Wednesday 23 November @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- Milestone 2 Presentations (Recording)
Month 3 - build out the prototype into a functional product
⛳ Milestone - demo, write up of product
Week 10 - 28 November
🧠 Modular Insights with dYmension
- Monday 28 November @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- dYmension – Home of the RollApps
- Modular blockchains and RollApps with dYmension (Modular Insights) (Recording)
🧑🏫 Wednesday Office Hour
- 30 November - @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
🧠 Modular Insights with Eclipse
- Friday 2 December @ 12pm EST / 5pm UTC / 6pm CEST
- Eclipse is building customizable, modular rollups using the Solana VM.
- Modular Insights with Eclipse (Recording)
Week 11 - 5 December
🧑🏫 Office Hour
- Wednesday 7 December - @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Dec 12 - Week 12
✋ Modular Fellows AMA with John Adler
- Monday 12 December - @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
- AMA with John Adler of Celestia (Recording)
📗 Lesson 6 with Cosmology
- Tuesday 13 December @ 1pm EST / 6pm UTC / 7pm CEST
- Building apps in the Cosmos
- Learn how to build apps that quickly and easily interact with Cosmos blockchains and wallets.
- Convert custom Cosmos SDK chains and CosmWasm Smart Contracts into neatly packaged Typescript modules that can be published to npm and brought into frontend projects.
- Lesson #6 - Cosmology (Recording)
📗 Lesson 7 with CosmWasm
- Thursday 15 December @ 11am EST / 5pm UTC / 6pm CEST
- CosmWasm is a new smart contracting platform built for the Cosmos ecosystem.
- Learn to build a Smart Contract in under 1 hour in Rust. You will learn all the basic pieces you need to shape your Smart Contract.
- Lesson #7 - CosmWasm (Recording)
Dec 19 - Week 13 - no scheduled events, meet with mentors
🧑🏫 Office Hour
- Tuesday 20 December @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Dec 26 - Week 14 - no scheduled events, holiday break 🎉
Jan 2 - Week 15 - no scheduled events, meet with mentors
🧑🏫 Office Hour
- Wednesday 4 January @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
Jan 9 - Week 16 - submissions due
🧑🏫 Office Hour
- Monday 9 January @ 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST
🪧 Demo Day
Wednesday 11 January @ 11am EST / 4pm UTC / 5pm CEST
🪧 Write up of project due
- Friday 13 January @ 11:59pm EST