如果您要在 Web3 技術(shù)的前沿推出一個偉大的概念，那么有兩件事對于成功至關(guān)重要。

首先也是最重要的，您需要擁有最優(yōu)質(zhì)的工程人才：有能力和雄心幫助您最大限度地發(fā)揮項(xiàng)目潛力的個人。

樂于親自參與采煤工作面、編寫出色代碼并挖掘區(qū)塊鏈新可能性的開發(fā)人員確實(shí)是一種有價值的商品。

其次，同樣重要的是，您想要發(fā)展自己對區(qū)塊鏈以及推動區(qū)塊鏈發(fā)展的人們的理解。

您需要深入了解密碼學(xué)如何驅(qū)動去中心化世界，以及一些出色的網(wǎng)絡(luò)渠道來幫助您與業(yè)內(nèi)最優(yōu)秀的人合作。

Polkadot 區(qū)塊鏈學(xué)院

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PBA）自 2022 年 8 月成立以來取得了如此迅速的進(jìn)展，現(xiàn)在可以自信地滿足這兩個關(guān)鍵目標(biāo)。

現(xiàn)在分為兩個獨(dú)立的課程 - 一個是為核心開發(fā)人員設(shè)計(jì)的，另一個是專門為創(chuàng)始人量身定制的 - PBA 培養(yǎng)的人才能夠隨時準(zhǔn)備好將 Web3 的下一個偉大想法付諸測試。

早期的創(chuàng)始團(tuán)隊(duì)需要有遠(yuǎn)見的人和企業(yè)家，但需要他們對工程師到底在構(gòu)建什么有一個概念性的理解 - 并且還需要這些工程師來構(gòu)建基礎(chǔ)。

之前發(fā)生了什么：區(qū)塊鏈在教育中的應(yīng)用

2017 年公眾對加密貨幣的興趣首次激增之后，知名大學(xué)開始考慮在常規(guī)學(xué)位課程之外提供以區(qū)塊鏈為中心的課程的可能性。

麻省理工學(xué)院、康奈爾大學(xué)、哥倫比亞大學(xué)、牛津大學(xué)和劍橋大學(xué)等地的此類課程相當(dāng)全面。

但它們在很大程度上也是理論性的，為各種區(qū)塊鏈協(xié)議的機(jī)制、它們相對于傳統(tǒng)技術(shù)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施的優(yōu)勢、以及安全和隱私原則、去中心化等提供了基礎(chǔ)。

這些基礎(chǔ)課程主要是為了激發(fā)好奇心——它們沒有深入的實(shí)際應(yīng)用。

其他計(jì)劃則有所不同，它們提供加速職業(yè)培訓(xùn)，以滿足具有一定密碼學(xué)和數(shù)字資產(chǎn)知識的個人的需求。

這些課程具有更精細(xì)和技術(shù)性的教育。

但即使是這些還不夠。

您無法從其中一門課程中脫穎而出并開始為已建立的 Web3 技術(shù)堆棧的下一個迭代進(jìn)行編碼，甚至無法作為初級開發(fā)人員加入工程師團(tuán)隊(duì)。

PBA 專注于提供相關(guān)課程

That’s obviously where PBA comes in - because it is designed to be both theoretical and also applied to what is current within Polkadot. This mean it is producing highly skilled developers who will be ready to hit the ground running, and after three completed waves of PBA, the evidence suggests that’s exactly what’s happening.

Among the success metrics, the following stand out:

• Of 160 graduates from the first three waves, 46% have found full or part-time roles in Polkadot within three months of leaving PBA
• 57 were hired directly by Polkadot ecosystem projects, including Parity Technologies and Web3 Foundation
• Others have chosen to start up their own Web3 projects, of which 20 are already up and running
• Six graduates are known to have joined the Fellowship, which is a relatively new initiative to create an expert body of developers that is an integral component in Polkadot’s pioneering decentralized governance structure

As Derek Yoo, the founder of Moonbeam↗, explains: “The critical ingredient for building Web3 protocols is talented software engineers. But finding engineers with the right knowledge is very challenging. PBA consistently produces excellent candidates with the right skills for us to hire.”

Branimir Rakic, the founder of OriginTrail↗, identified a particular engineer, Nikola, to send to PBA. Afterwards, he reported: “Nikola has emerged as a key figure, armed with the knowledge acquired from the Academy, propelling us forward and playing a pivotal role in the successful launch of our parachain."

Stats show many new devs lack skills

In the wider world of Web3 at large, the impact of PBA has not yet been felt, however. There is, it seems, a global skills gap hampering recruiting efforts: if teams need to grow or even just replace existing talent, the new people coming in are not best equipped to keep the fires burning.

A leading Web3 data analysis provider, Electric Capital↗, reported that 52% of developers classified as “newcomers” - that is those who had worked in crypto for less than a year - had lost their jobs during the course of 2023.

By contrast “emerging” developers, those who had worked in crypto for between one and two years were growing by 44%, while the numbers of the most experienced developers were slightly up.

While there may be other factors at play, the Electric Capital findings were a worrying indicator that the quality of education received by novice developers who have not had the benefit of a PBA education, is simply not good enough to guarantee a sustained career.

PBA graduates, on the other hand, can have better expectations of success.

Alex Theissen, Smart Contracts Execution Lead at Parity Technologies↗, a leading technical contributor to Polkadot, says: “We've made some strong hires from the PBA. I feel PBA gives us access to some developers that a normal recruiting process would not; it seems to motivate really strong developers to come to work at Parity or on Polkadot. PBA also makes onboarding a lot quicker and easier. In most instances, we get to productivity fast.”

A focus on founders: PBA’s newest track

So if it’s accepted that the great software engineers of Web3 need better education (and that PBA is actively addressing that necessity), then what about the founders, the entrepreneurs, the ones with the big ideas, those hunting that all-important VC investment that will drive future waves of adoption in the space?

Until Wave 3 of PBA got under way in Berkeley, California in the summer of 2023, this was a group whose needs had largely been ignored. It was in Berkeley, however, that PBA first offered its Founders Track↗, and the course proved so successful that it is now integral to PBA’s future.

The Founders Track aims to help its students understand fundamental concepts of cryptography, e