Week 0 — Entering Web3 safely
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Week 0 is setup and orientation. It gives you a safe vocabulary and a tool map before the Foundation asks you to reason about blockchains or touch a wallet.
Nothing this week is assessed — but Part 4 is the page that protects you for the rest of the programme, and Part 1 sets up accounts you need from Week 1.
| Part | Page | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome, GitHub and the platform | 30 min hands-on |
| 2 | Web3 starter glossary | reference — skim now, return often |
| 3 | The Web3 tool map | 20 min |
| 4 | Staying safe: what you can lose and how | 25 min |
| 5 | Regulatory awareness in Singapore | 20 min |
What Week 0 is for
By the end of the week you should have:
- a GitHub account, an Academy platform account, and access to the Telegram group
- a glossary you can search when a word stops you mid-sentence
- a rough sense of which tool answers which kind of question
- a working threat model — what you can lose, and how people actually lose it
- enough regulatory awareness to know that "regulated" is not the same as "safe"
You are not expected to memorise anything
The glossary and the tool map exist so that Weeks 1–4 can move without stopping to define every term. Recognition, not mastery.
Two rules that apply all semester
No exceptions, throughout the Academy
1. Everything required in this programme is testnet only. Testnet coins have no monetary value. No Academy mission will ever ask you to spend real money or use a mainnet network.
2. Nobody in the Academy will ever ask for your seed phrase or private key. Not a reviewer, not an organiser, not a member of the committee. Anyone who does is not who they claim to be.
Every page marks material as Core, Landscape, or Further Exploration.
Changelog
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