🚀 Go Really Deep in Learning Solidity & Web3
Join devs from around the 🌍 on a demanding, challenging, & rewarding journey to get really good at Solidity and Web3. Then break into a new, fun, and lucrative industry. Make new frens along the way, join the DAO, and start building the future of the web 😮
💸 Current Avg. Graduate Comp: $201k Salary + Tokens / Equity
🌎 6-Weeks | Part-Time | Sync & Async w/ other Experienced Devs 🥳
✅ Apply Here | Next Cohorts: Feb 21 Apr 11 May 30
- FAQs
- 4+ years of development experience (more backend is preferred, some front end experience is useful).
- Excited and capable of independently learning a new programming language (Solidity). We don't actually teach a lot of Solidity other than the intricacies, we expect you to learn most of it yourself.
- Excited to learn how to write secure smart contracts
- Has at least 20 hours/week available to dedicate to the course
- Can attend all lectures (9:00am to 10:30am Pacific time, Monday, Wednesday Friday)
- Can attend some office hours (Tuesday / Thursday scattered through Pacific time)
- Great collaboration and teaching/mentoring skills (async & written via Discord and sync & verbal via Zoom)
- 0️⃣ First Submit an Application
- 1️⃣ 30 Minute Initial Interview
- Q&A both ways for you to learn more and for us to learn more about your goals, interest, journey into Crypto / Web3
- 2️⃣ 45 Minute Technical Interview
- Discuss your previous dev experience (doesn't need to be Web3)
- 3️⃣ (Optional) Technical Project
- 4️⃣ Decision
- You'll learn all of the below mostly through projects, and some through live lectures.
- Understanding known security attacks
- Code analysis tools
- Reducing code complexity
- Understanding the EVM in depth
- Keeping up to date on EIPs
- Data structures & visibility
- Oracles
- Weaknesses of the platform
- Mitigating front running vulnerabilities
- Time-based business logic
- Compiling & optimizing code for L2 chains
- Deploying your code to testnet & mainnet
- Smart contract design patterns
- Confirming to ERC standards
- Interacting with other existing contracts
- Storage Slots and gas optimization
- Writing tests for Solidity
- Determining whether data can/should be on chain or off chain
- Ethereum provider APIs
- Compiling your code and generating ABIs
- Building a browser frontend to a smart contract backend
- Reading contract data
- Connecting to a user's wallet
- Signing transactions
- 1 ETH deposit up front (refunded upon job acceptance)
- Contribute $0 in tuition 🎉
- 👀 Earn DAO Tokens on your first day at your new Web3 job. Participate in shaping the future of HackerDAO
- 1 ETH deposit up front (refunded upon job acceptance)
- Contribute 15% of your 1st year's starting salary after you get a job as tuition.
- We'll help you negotiate a signing bonus that covers your tuition, so it ends up being free for you. Not guaranteed... but all engineers who chose this path have successfully done this.
- 👀 Earn DAO Tokens on your first day at your new Web3 job. Participate in shaping the future of HackerDAO
- 3️⃣ (Paid) Contribute 4 ETH for Feb 21 Cohort up front.
- 👀 Earn DAO Tokens upon Graduation. Participate in shaping the future of HackerDAO
- Meet & interview other Web3 engineers who could be your cofounders or coworkers.
- Participate in governance of the DAO. Help guide the direction through your vote.
- Get funding from the DAO treasury for building a web3 project / company.
- Meet investors keen on funding your idea / project on Demo Day.
- Get ongoing education for alumni by alumni (Speaker series, podcasts).
- Get job opportunities from other Alumni looking to hire for the company or project.
- Earn tokens by contributing to the DAO (run Hackathons, Demo days, Speaker Series, Podcasts, etc.)
- Earn tokens for referring other great engineers to take the course and join the DAO.
- All Tuition goes into the DAO treasury. Tokenholders (like Core Contributors & Alumni) vote to control how capital is reinvested from the treasury.
- As such, when you earn HackerDAO's token, you get exposure to the upside of the DAO as well as any projects the DAO creates, funds, or incubates 👀
- You can earn tokens by contributing to the DAO via bounties, as a core contributor, or buying a DAO membership in ETH after graduation.
- You cannot acquire tokens at this time. We will build this ability in the future as we progressively decentralize.
- Imagine being an early tokenholder of Stanford. Imagine being an early tokenholder of Y Combinator. Put the two together, and that's what we hope joining HackerDAO will represent.
- Yep.
- Ultimately it's on you to find a job. However, the DAO has direct relationships with Web3 companies and we will make direct introductions to CEOs and CTOs of various protocols and companies.
- We help you figure out where to work based on your interests.
- We also help you conduct a proper job search on your own.
- We help you refine your narrative as a Web3 engineer, clean up your GitHub, update your resume, LinkedIn, etc.
🙂 What makes a great applicant to HackerDAO?
🔐 What is admissions process like?
💡 What will you learn?
FYI our topics are updated every week. Web3 moves fast ⚡ You may learn stuff not on this list, or may not learn something on this list by the time you enroll.
Learn by Doing
Smart Contract Security Engineering
Designing with Blockchain Constraints
Blockchain Software Engineering
Web3 in the Browser
🎗️ What is the Tuition?
All tuition contributions go to the shared DAO treasury.
Choose one of three options:
1️⃣ (Free) Accept an offer after the course from a company "in-network" (30+ and counting)
👇🏼 See the list of the "in-network" employers
The Graph, Edge & Node, OpenSea, Synthetix, Gitcoin, Terra, Showtime, Goldfinch, Chainlink Labs, Genie, Metadrop, Highlight, Alongside Finance, Sophos, XMTP, Snowball, Structure, World Coin, Matter Labs, JennyDAO, Badger Finance, NFTLabs, Stardust, Li.finance, Nahmii, Apeworx, Aztec, Sense Finance, Strips Finance, Opyn, Quantstamp, Nifty Island, Sherlock (and more)
2️⃣ (Paid) Accept an offer after the course from a company "out-of-network"
🎉 What's the benefit of being a token-holding Alumni DAO Member?
♻️ So how does the DAO work?
📈 Do you help engineers get jobs?
More Info:
😍 Hire great Web3 engineers from HackerDAO
😍 Hire Great Web3 Engineers from HackerDAO
🧠 4-10+ years of programming experience
🛠️ Have written & audited NFT, Liquidity Pool, DAO, ICO contracts & more
✅ Register Here & join the likes of the following companies recruiting from HackerDAO
The Graph, Edge & Node, OpenSea, Synthetix, Gitcoin, Terra, Showtime, Goldfinch, Chainlink Labs, Genie, Metadrop, Highlight, Alongside Finance, Sophos, XMTP, Snowball, Structure, World Coin, Matter Labs, JennyDAO, Badger Finance, NFTLabs, Stardust, Li.finance, Nahmii, Apeworx, Aztec, Sense Finance, Strips Finance, Opyn, Quantstamp, Nifty Island, Sherlock (and more)
♻️ Upskill your Existing Web2 Team on Web3
♻️ Turn Your Web2 Devs into Web3 Devs
🚢 Reliably transition Web2 devs into Web3 devs capable of shipping code to mainnet.
⚡ Save 💵 and ⏰ compared to finding, recruiting, hiring, and training new talent
🌎 6 Weeks, Part-Time, Live Online
✅ Register Here and speak to our team
💯 Who's HackerDAO backed by?
💯 You're in Good Company:
HackerDAO is backed by some of the best founders, operators, and investors in Web3.
Coinbase, Edge & Node (The Graph), Xoogler Ventures, Floodgate
Cooper, Sahil, Linda Xie, Anthony, Packy, Ryan Sean Adams (Bankless), Tegan, Haseeb, Reuben, Nat, Matt, Ann, Pomp, Richard Ma (Quantstamp) Soona, Dan, Dan (Nascent), Meltem, Dudas, Jess, Julia, Patrick, Mariano, Lisa, Michael, Furqan, Nader, Aditi, Alex, Jen, and 70+ more founders / operators in crypto.
🚀 What is the DAO part of HackerDAO?
What is the DAO part of HackerDAO?
HackerDAO is a community of engineers who operate a community owned school. We:
- ♻️ Turn world class Senior Web2 devs into Web3 devs
- 🤝 Connect alumni to Web3 protocols, DAOs, and projects
- 🚀 Incubate & invest in projects that push the Web3 ecosystem forward
Revenue from all operations flow to the DAO treasury, and the treasury redeploys capital to operate the school & incubate Web3 projects.
We plan to issue a governance token that provides contributors, alumni, employers, and investors in the community with exposure to the school and all the projects the school incubates.
Today, we are intentionally operating the DAO in a very centralized yet transparent fashion in order to get the school and surrounding incubation infrastructure off the ground. A team of core contributors do this focused work, and over time, we expect to progressively decentralize every component of the school as well as the surrounding infrastructure, giving tokenholders the power to govern DAO operations.
Long-term, we plan on creating a school not just for senior devs, but for all types of Web2 talent looking to break into Web3.
🔍 Hire HackerDAO as an Auditor
🔍 Hire HackerDAO as an Auditor
👱 Our most senior instructors routinely conduct security audits for projects.
😄 We're happy to introduce you to our past clients.
👋 We're no-b.s., quick to provide an educated quote, and launch projects ourselves so we know what's up.