Optimism Course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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Proposal for an Extension Course about Optimism, Governance and Retro Funding in Portuguese to be offered by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in partnertship with professors from the Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro Rural Federal University and the recently created Blockchain Innovation Hub. This is a 8-session extension course (1 session a week, each session will have a 1.5 hour class or 90 min) with a total of 12 hours classes.

Course topics

1. Blockchain concepts: decentralization, transparency, immutability, traceability, privacy. L1s and L2s
2. Optimistic rollups. Digital Wallets: MetaMask, Keplr, INTMAX
3. ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens. Onchain governance.
4. Bicameral governance on the Optimism network: Token House and Citizen House
5. Impact = Profit
6. Incentives and Retro Funding

Professors

1. Maria Luiza Machado Campos - UFRJ (GRECO project) (Linkedin)
2. Sérgio Serra - UFRRJ. (Academia), (SIGAA) (Linkedin)
3. Claudio Miceli de Farias - UFRJ (Linkedin)
4. Antonio "Guto" Rocha - UFF (Linkedin)
5. Rodrigo Jardim - Lumeeira, IberoAm (Linkedin)
6. Alberto Dávila - Lumeeira, IberoAm (Linkedin)

Syllabus

Session 1: Digital wallets: Metamask, Keplr and Intmax. Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT). The blockchain technology and concepts: decentralization, transparency, traceability, privacy.

Session 2: Private and Public Blockchains. Blockchain 4 layers: Execution, Consensus, Data availability and Settlement. Monolithic and Modular Blockchains. Blockchains Layer 1, Layer 2 and Layer 3.

Session 3: Ethereum and scalability: Rollups, Plasma, Validium. Optimism Rollup Protocol. Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) and Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC). ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens.

Session 4: Onchain Governance: Optimism example. Delegation. Optimism bicameral governance: Token House and Citizen House.

Session 5: Impact=Profit. Collective values. Grants Council. Mision Request and Retro Funding.

Session 6: Onchain voting. Snapshot.

Session 7: Optimism governance participation I

Session 8: Optimism governance participation II

General information

Course starts

• Friday 7th June

Total number of hours

• 12

Total number of classes

• 8

Class days and times

• Fridays from 5:30pm to 7pm

Class days

• June 7th
• June 14th
• June 21th
• June 28th
• July, 5th
• July 12th
• August 9th
• August 16th

Target audience

• University community (all universities) and non-university community (young people and adults)

Registration requirements

• Be 18 years or older

Requirements for the certificate

• At least 75% attendance in a total of 8 classes

Relevant Links

• Optimism website
• Optimism Documentation
• Optimism Governance
• MetaMask website
• Snapshot
• Charmverse

Course Participation

1. There were a total of 305 registrations from different regions of Brazil, 1 from Mozambique and 1 from Cape Verde
2. 41 (13.6%) of registered participants completed the course, attending at least 75% of the entire course (at least 6 classes)

Registration details

Registrations by University

From the 3 universities participating in the course, we had 36/305 [11.8%] (UFRJ), 42/305 [13.7%] (UFRRJ) and 2/305 [0.6%] (UFF)

Registrations by Brazilian state

Registered participants that completed the course

The 41 [13.44%] registered participants that completed the course wil receiva a certificate from the Federal Unievrsity of Rio de Janeiro:

1. Alan Silva dos Santos
2. Alex Silva Santos
3. Alexandre de Freitas Subkand
4. Ana Claudia da Cunha
5. André de Souza Carneiro
6. Anny Caroline de Sousa Correia
7. Arestides Durante Neto
8. Arthur Fialho De Araújo Souza
9. Benjamin da Gama Bauer
10. Bruno Véras Schulz
11. Caroline Silva de Oliveira
12. Daniel Silva de Freitas
13. Débora das Chagas Barbosa
14. Diovani Luiz Merlo
15. Fabrinni da Silva Rodrigues
16. Flavus Pereira Regis
17. Igor de Oliveira Amaro
18. Issac d'Cesares de Carvalho Lima
19. Ítallo Winícios Ferreira Cardoso
20. João Pedro Evangelista de Carvalho
21. José Aldo Teixeira da Silva
22. José Renato Ferreira da Silva Filho
23. Julia Campos Rocha
24. Klayvem Guimarães Leal da Silva
25. Luciano Alves Dos Santos Marques
26. Marcon Zanin
27. Maria Angela Fulgencio da Silva dos Santos
28. Maria Carolina Clemente
29. Mariana Fernandes Cabral
30. Matheus do Ó Santos Tiburcio
31. Nikolas Silva Cury Boaventura
32. Patrícia Alves da Silva
33. Paula Marques
34. Renan Ferreira de Lima
35. Rita de Cássia Novaes Barretto
36. Rodrigo Garcia Zaroni
37. Ronan Dutra Mendonça
38. Sarah Ellen de Oliveira Borrete
39. Sonia Mara Batista
40. Thiago Sarmento Magalhães
41. Tiago César Cunha da Costa

Evaluation/feedback of each class by registered students

Most feedback provided by the registered students were "very good" (muito bom) and good (bom):

Class 1 feedback

https://github.com/iberoam/optimism-course/blob/main/Curso_Optimism_07_06_2024_Class_1.pdf

Class 2 feedback

https://github.com/iberoam/optimism-course/blob/main/Curso_Optimism_14_06_2024_Class_2.pdf

Class 3 feedback

https://github.com/iberoam/optimism-course/blob/main/Curso_Optimism_21_06_2024_Class_3.pdf

Class 4 feedback

https://github.com/iberoam/optimism-course/blob/main/Curso_Optimism_28_06_2024_Class_4.pdf

Class 5 feedback

https://github.com/iberoam/optimism-course/blob/main/Curso_Optimism_5_07_2024_Class_5.pdf

Class 6 feedback

https://github.com/iberoam/optimism-course/blob/main/Curso_Optimism_12_07_2024_Class_6.pdf

Class 7 feedback

https://github.com/iberoam/optimism-course/blob/main/Curso_Optimism%2009_08_2024_Class_7.pdf

Class 8 feedback

https://github.com/iberoam/optimism-course/blob/main/Curso_Optimism_16_08_2024_Class_8.pdf

Progress:

(i) YouTube live (at the IberoAm YouTube channel) to introduce organizers, professors and assistants, as well as course dynamics, scheduled for June 4th at 5:30pm:

https://www.youtube.com/live/tgFQmVJM1pE

(ii) YoutTube live scheduled for Friday April 12th 5pm (GMT-3) to communicate the course organization and talk about the Hacker House of the Blockchain Innovation Hub

(iii) IberoAM tweet about the YouTube live: https://twitter.com/iberoam_xyz/status/1777481843928940602

(iv) IberoAm YouTube direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfKPF1Rd0NU

(v) Optimism Course proposal submitted to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro on April 12th

(vi) Brazilian media (BlockTrends) started to promote the Optimism course to be offered by the Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ) in partnership with professors from UFF and UFRRJ: https://blocktrends.com.br/universidades-ensinar-programacao-blockchain-rj/

Optimism course officially approved by the Rio de Janeiro Federal University

https://portal.ufrj.br/Inscricao/extensao/acaoExtensao/acao?id=F32CACFF-8DF3-489E-857C-08601EF89005&cid=54501

Registration form for the Optimism course at UFRJ

https://tinyurl.com/curso-optimism

Rules

• Check the RULES_PT-BR.md file for the rules of the course.

Optimism course videos at IberoAm YouTube channel

The introduction plus 8 course videos are available as a playlist here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5dr-3NL6H0dzamjtZrQUUNUzCi62VQJN

Individual lecture videos

• Optimism Extension Course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgFQmVJM1pE

• Digital wallets, DLTs and Blockchain

  https://youtu.be/ca6QFXNJJ28?si=RAe5cGJVT8HMTmqz

• Public and Private Blockchains. Four layers. Monolithic and Modular Blockchains. Blockchains Layer 1, 2 and 3.

  https://youtu.be/mBT8D9A5So0?si=WwtRPtPeOMfUsS-5

• EIP, ERC. ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens

  https://youtu.be/pvinGcu3Rek?si=yXv76xW6NNQpxMcV

• On-chain governance, Delegation, Bi-cameral governance of Optimism network

  https://youtu.be/1-GoeXfrARA?si=TgRhy9mvB1rUaZ5G

• Impact=Profit, Collective values, Grants Council, Mision Request, Retroactive Funding

  https://youtu.be/VFSyVj5Jj8U?si=BS76aPF3lcE6K46C

• Snapshot. On-chain voting.

  https://youtu.be/VPTj3kNIBPQ?si=wmtSBao28vwmTs7F

• Optimism network governance (Special Guest: Brichis)

  https://www.youtube.com/live/LsrkkftMRX0?si=VAJolzaIzwDc_sc2

• Optimism network governance (Special Guest: Gonna)

  https://www.youtube.com/live/-CXvs47Uc9o?si=iDE-N5FiMvx9FAiC