Binance Intends To Train 1000 Developers In Africa By End of March 2021

The Binance Masterclass series has become a household name in the African cryptocurrency ecosystem for providing training for thousands of people every month.

In an effort to increase the blockchain education and skillsets on the continent, Binance plans to provide up to 1000 blockchain developers in Africa with the right tools and skills to build their first DApps on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) network.

Starting from January 31st, with a two-hour Binance Masterclass – Developers’ Edition on ‘Careers in Blockchain Technology’, where Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) will introduce the program, the Binance Smart Chain and Binance Africa teams will host weekly programs (for 8 weeks) under the theme Rebuilding Financial Systems on Blockchain.

With this event, the Binance Africa and Binance Smart Chain teams aim to show the multitude of career options in the crypto and blockchain space – beyond crypto trading. The 8-week program will be coordinated by crypto industry thought leaders from ChainIDE, Xend, Bundle, as well as the BSC team.

Location: Zoom (first 1000 attendees) & YouTube

Register at: https://www.binance.com/en/event/masterclass_jan

Date and Time: 31st January 2021, 4PM WAT, 5PM SAST, 6PM EAT

The masterclass on January 31 aims to increase product awareness for blockchain development within Africa using BSC. Attendees will:

Acquire high income development skills
Learn blockchain development with Binance for FREE
Receive a certificate of participation issued on Binance Smart Chain (for those that complete the 8-weeks course)

Binance Masterclass will also be giving away $1000 worth of crypto during the event.

Here is what the schedule for the 8-week developer masterclass looks like:

Weeks	Focus	Speaker
1	Blockchain: Technology, Innovation, and Thinking A brief conception of blockchain. History with blockchain(whitepaper\1.0 2.0) Possible future of blockchain	WuXiao
2	Financial Service and Cryptocurrency On Blockchain	Samy
3	Dapp development with ChainIDE Make an introduction about Chainide, about the feature and function. Bring engineers go through with the whole process of compile\deploy\interaction.	Tim Zhang
4	How solidity works in a smart contract? Make an introduction of smart contracts and talk about the internal connection with block chain. Introduce the smart contract programming language —– solidity. (ie. Solidity Grammar/ function/ .sol file structure/ memory storage)	Yilei
5	What is DeFi? Make one yourself Make a definition of DeFi. How is it different from traditional finance? Are there any advantages? Take a few look at DeFi projects, like Uniswap/AAVE/YFI,etc. What will we build? A system includes staking and reward.	Yilei
6	Let’s follow DeFi to go further How to use another contract in the smart contract? The implementation of staking and rewarding. What else can we do? (lending/ Aggregator)	Yilei
7	Interact with smart contract by yourself, from start to finish How to use the program to interact with the contract? The relationship between react and Javascript.(The related links will list in pre-class information.About the JS grammer and react rules.) Display an example about how to build a simple website that can react with deployed smart contracts.	Yilei
8	DeFi Case Study/Inside out. Panel: How to build a successful DeFi project?	BSC Project Partners
9	Invited speakers: Frontier blockchain technology outlook	Xend, Bundle
Demo	Pick 5 best projects from Masterclass students for a demo. Every team has 15 minutes to present their idea.	Masterclass Students