syllabus.md

📄 Course Syllabus

Episode 0- Blockchain & Web3 Fundamentals

• Introduction to Blockchain & Web3
  • What is Blockchain?
  • Public vs Private Blockchains
  • Key Components: Nodes, Consensus, Transactions
  • Web3 vs Web2: Why decentralization matters?
• Smart Contracts & dApps
  • What are Smart Contracts?
  • Ethereum vs Substrate-based Blockchains
  • Introduction to Decentralized Applications (dApps)

Episode 1- CESS Network Introduction

• Course Logistics
• What is CESS?
• Why Choose CESS?
• Decentralized Industry Challenges and Solutions
  • Storage Industry Challenges & Solutions
  • Content Delivery Network Challenges & Solutions
  • AI Training Challenges
• CESS Use Case
• History and Roadmap
• Try Out CESS
• Learn, Explore, Contribute
• Getting in Touch

Episode 2- CESS Architecture & Key Technologies

• CESS Network Platform Architecture
• Key Technologies
  • Proof of Data Reduplication and Recovery (PoDR$^2$)
  • Proof of Idle Space (PoIS)
  • Multi-format Data Rights Confirmation (MDRC)
  • Random Rotational Selection (R$^2$S) Consensus Mechanism
  • Proxy Re-encryption Technology (PReT)
  • CESS AI-LINK
  • Smart Space Management
• Client Interaction Model

Episode 3- CESS Ecosystem, and Applications

• CESS Ecosystem & Roles
• Ways to Participate in CESS Ecosystem
• CESS Events
• CESS Applications
  • User: TellyWelly
  • User: DeShare
  • User: DeCloud
  • User: Videown

Episode 4- CESS Nodes & CESS Account Setup

• CESS Nodes and The Why?
  • Consensus Node
  • Storage Node
  • CDN Node
  • TEE Node
• Tokenomics
• Demo: CESS Account Setup

Episode 5- Demo: Running a Consensus Node

• System Requirements
• Prerequisites
• Consensus Node Operational Capacity
• Binding Funds
• Consensus Node Installation, Setup and Common Operations

Episode 6- Demo: Running a Storage Node

• System Requirements
• Prerequisites
• Storage Node Installation, Setup and Common Operations

Episode 7- CESS DeOSS and DeOSS REST API

• Ways of Development on CESS
  1. Interacting with CESS using DeOSS API and SDKs. Difficulty: ★
  2. Building and Deploying Smart Contracts. Difficulty: ★★
  3. Building Custom Pallets to Integrate with CESS. Difficulty: ★★★
• Why Develop on CESS? CESS Comparision
• What is DeOSS?
• DeOSS System Architecture
  • DeOSS Workflow
  • File Upload Process
  • File Download Process
• Workflow: Interacting with DeOSS
• Demo: Using DeOSS REST API

Episode 8- dApp Development using Ink! Smart Contract

• Ink! Smart Contract Overview
• Why choose Ink! Smart contract?
• Flipper smart contract walkthrough
• Demo: Deploying Ink! smart contract on CESS
• Interacting with ink! smart contract with use-ink library
• Demo: NFT marketplace example

Episode 9- dApp Development using Solidity Smart Contract

• Why choose Solidity Smart Contract?
• Commonly Used Libraries
• Substrate-EVM Address Conversion
• Demo: Transferring Funds Between Substrate and EVM
• Demo: Deploying Solidity Smart Contract

Episode 10- Building Custom Pallet

• Why build your own pallets? Purpose.
• How to contribute to CESS with custom pallets?
• High-Level Description of CESS (Substrate) Framework
• CESS Course Code
• Overview of the CESS Node and Runtime
• Structure of the Runtime
• Integration of Pallets
• Pallets Integrated in CESS Node
• File-bank and Sminer pallets
• Demo: Adding a custom pallet to the CESS Node