Web3

How We Do

When we started the WBA, then called the TBA (Terra Builders Alliance), we did so in response to the waning quality of developers entering what was at the time, a burgeoning ecosystem. Many of our early supporters and advisors were successful Terra project founders who were losing time, money, and…

NOT a Bootcamp

So this is a statement we make often. We are NOT a bootcamp. Nothing against Bootcamps at all. The bootcamp model is an excellent program that is integral to the developer education continuum.

More on this concept of a continuum is forthcoming. But to the current point, a…

Sur-thrival

Not gonna beat around the bush here, it is a challenging time to be trying to build any kind of business, let alone one based on technology beyond the grasp of the overwhelming majority of those walking this rock. Compounding that is that at a time when capital deployment- whether buying groceries, filling…

The Struggle is Real… Important

Nothing in life worth having is easy. Cliches exist because they represent a pattern that has been shown to be true more often than not.

What the collective “we” of #Web3 builders experience is a daily struggle. But a beautiful one. Even the…

Partnership Announcement: Axelar <> WBA

We are excited to share that we have partnered with the…

Commencement

It was a mystery to me in my younger years why a graduation ceremony was called a Commencement. The word means to start, not to end. But as I got older, I understood- it’s a ceremony to celebrate the beginning of well-prepared contributors to society.

Live in the Zone

One of the most impactful concepts that I took from my graduate school studies is Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development.

From wikipedia:

The zone of proximal development (ZPD) is the distance between what a learner is capable of doing…

Steward Culture

As we scurry deeper into the Rust/CosmWasm rabbit hole in this, the second week of the WBA Institute, a beautiful manifestation of stewardship is emerging from the virtual confines of the learning space.

When the Magic Happens

We are three days into the first cohort of the Web3 Buidlers Alliance Institute. Three days. While expectations were high, we are not wired to be intimidated by such lofty aspirations. Rather they motivate us to work hard- and this is the culture being established and nurtured amongst the…