Developer opportunities in the Polkadot Ecosystem
summary
Polkadot India runs a free, three-month bootcamp called Substrate Saturday that teaches Rust and Substrate with live mentors, curated exercises and placement support; cohorts finish and placements are ongoing. Community size tops 18K with 30+ mentors, 25+ virtual events and outreach to 100+ colleges. Curriculum is vetted by Polkadot and Parity, covers traits, FRAME, runtime/backend work, and suggests Moonbeam for EVM portability so Solidity projects can port to Polkadot. Scan the channels to join.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Polkadot India community welcome
- 1:09Developer potential in Web3
- 2:34Birth of Polkadot India
- 3:37Solving Web3 skill gaps
- 4:42DOT Friday webinar series
- 5:46Substrate Saturday bootcamp
- 8:57Barriers to Web3 development
- 11:46Blockchain knowledge gaps
- 14:54Polkadot India ambassador program
- 16:40Multilingual educational resources
- 18:05Polkadot India roadmap
- 20:15Becoming a Web3 developer
- 22:43About the Polkadot India team
- 24:06Q&A
- 26:01From Solidity to Substrate
- 28:13Collaboration with Web3 education
- 29:39Networking for job opportunities
- 30:20Learning Web3 from JavaScript
