Shermin Voshmgir: April 20, 2024
Today I would like to feature the efforts of Token Engineering Academy, which was founded in 2020 by Angela Kreitenweis who — together with her team — contribute to the education of aspiring token engineers. I know Angela from my time in Berlin. Her mission from the beginning was to provide free education to grow a token engineering community to develop this emerging discipline further working both with practitioners and scientists. TE Academy’s purpose is to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and “knowledge sharing as a superpower.” Angela has worked in early-stage startups since 2008, both at the investor and startup side. In 2018, she started running the first Berlin meetups with token projects and cryptoeconomic researchers and in 2019 she organized the Token Engineering Global Gathering during Berlin Blockchain Week before she went on to create TE Academy in 2020.
TE ACADEMY
TE Academy is the first educational institution of its kind dedicated to token engineering with an interdisciplinary perspective.
- 2022 TE Academy launched the first bachelor-level program in token engineering. It is best known for its “Token Engineering Fundamentals” course, a 5-module online course covering topics from requirements engineering to mechanism design and verification, token-based governance, engineering ethics, and more. Today, more than 4,000 students from 21 timezones are enrolled in their course, which is available for free and students can mint unique proof-of-knowledge NFTs to build their career on-chain. Course details here.
- 2023 TE Academy organized their first Token Engineering Track at EthCC in Paris. The 2023 EthCC TE Track writeup can be found here. All featured talks and speakers 2023 can be found on this YouTube playlist.
- 2024 Given last years success, TE Academy is curating a second annual Token Engineering Track at EthCC this year on July 10 in Brussels. More details here. TE Academy also just launched new programs — the Study Season and $10K Fellowship Prize.
STUDY SEASON
Their Study Season is a new cohort-based online program dedicated to learning the fundamentals of token engineering. The Study Season program starts April 25. More information here.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
The Fellowship Program is a $10K prize awarding researchers and practitioners pushing boundaries in cryptoeconomics, tokenomics, Web3 incentive design, or token-based governance and sharing their knowledge during the Study Season. Learn more about how to participate in these programs by visiting their website.
PROOF-OF-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
Since the launch of TE Fundamentals, TE Academy has issued more than 1000 NFTs as proof of knowledge, and proof of contributions to the discipline. Students can proof their track-record on-chain, while others can monitor the development of the educational activities on-chain with publicly available data. Find more information about their NFT system here and about their Reputation-Weighted Voting here.
IMPORTANT LINKS
- Registration link for the current Study SeasonYou will be redirected to the “TE Academy Study Season Information Hub” which is a Notion page sharing all program details, Live Tracks, calendar links, etc. Register here.
- #TokenEngineeringReads newsletter TE Academy’s bi-weekly newsletter shares info such as current topic in TE research, innovation as well as ecosystem news with 5k+ subscribers to date. Subscribe here.