Project Name: ITU Blockchain
A description of how the project has supported development and usage of the OP Stack: Optimism Virtual Machine (OVM) is an EVM-Compatible machine, Solidity is used in writing smart contracts. For the first time in history, ITU Blockchain published Solidity training in Turkish, which lasts more than 34+ hours completely for free of charge. Before, despite the high interest in cryptocurrencies in Turkey there was limited access to resources to build and develop this technology. Thanks to this training we have reached around 50,000 views, hundreds of people learned Solidity and participated in hackathons. The resources used in all our trainings are shared as open-source. All the codes and resources in our Solidity training are also shared on Github. In addition, Optimism and dApps on Optimism are one of the networks/dApps we use in our trainings.
In addition, ITU Blockchain is the community that conducts the most comprehensive face-to-face training on blockchain in Turkey. Every year, face-to-face trainings are held on Blockchain 101, Blockchain Advanced, DeFi, NFT, Layer 2s and DAO. These trainings are open to everyone. Anyone who wishes can attend the training without pre-registration. Since our trainings are the most qualified face-to-face trainings, more than 150-200 people attend each training. Especially in Layer2s training, a lot of information is given about Optimism.
In addition, ITU Blockchain has been publishing and sharing crypto money and blockchain news every week for almost 3 years in a way that can be read in 5 minutes. It sends news to nearly 4000 newsletter subscribers by e-mail every week under the name of Genesis News.
ITU Blockchain has also participated in dozens of hackathons so far. The most important of these are ETH Bogota, ETH Mexico, ETH Berlin, ETH Barcelona, ETH Prague, ETH Online and Avalanche Barcelona Hackathon. They have won awards from many of these hackathons. They developed many hackathon projects organized by ETH Global on Optimism and was nominated for Optimism awards.
Links to the project’s GitHub or Twitter: Twitter (20K+ followers), Github (410+ stars), Youtube (128K+ views), Instagram (4K+ followers)
Contact info for the project or project lead: ismailemin007@gmail.com or @ismailemin007 on Telegram