We are very excited to present our work done to date and present a comprehensive educational proposal for Peru and Chile that is aimed at continuing to increase academic knowledge, the use of the Near protocol and the environment of entrepreneurship with Defi products and Developers for the ecosystem using the Near protocol in Peru and Chile.
One-liner
Educate, Support and Promote new developers and creators by mastering learning methodology. We are going to help people to build Minimum Viable Products (MVP) focused on decentralized finance to resolve real problems in Latin America through the creation of decentralized applications using the Near protocol.
Series
This project takes advantage of the NEAR Education fellowship programs as Entrepreneur-In-Residence and Developer-In-Residence, as well as the experience as Entrepreneur in Residence on StartUp Perú and StartUp Chile Fellowship Program.
Description: The FintechLab Academy is a virtual academy to certify specialized entrepreneurs in the creation of Defi and developers for web 3.0 creating DApps (specific Defi Dapps) with business backed in NEAR Protocol.
Goals:
- Educate developers into the NEAR Protocol, by approaching communities in Peru and Chile, doing the evangelism about Blockchain and offering an opportunity with NEAR protocol.
- Educate and entrepreneurs into the NEAR Protocol, by approaching communities in Peru and Chile, doing the evangelism about Blockchain and offering an opportunity with NEAR protocol to build DeFi Dapps.
- Educate early adopters and promote the use of the Wallet and the use of the dapps on NEAR,
- Support all the projects and keep working as part of the FintechLab Ecosystem. (Regulation framework, Business Framework, others).
Duration Perú and Chile: 8 months
Diagram:
Deliverables Perú and Chile
- 4 monthly NEAR Certified Analyst (Sebastián y Rosa María)
- 2 monthly NEAR Certified Developer bootcamps. (Walquer)
- 2 monthly NEAR Certified DeFi Woman Business Program (RosaMaría)
- 2 monthly NEAR Certified Entrepreneur bootcamps. (Dennis y Rosa Maria)
- Design of Decentralized Finance Defi Business Program (Woman Defi).
- Marketing campaign focused on developers and entrepreneurs in partnership with universities, incubators and accelerators programs in Perú and Chile and the community of FintechLab.
- Daily tracking session with fellowship students.
Project metrics ending 8 months :
- 100 early adopter use Wallet Near
- 10 Woman in Defi
- 50 NEAR Certified Analyst.
- 50 NEAR Certified Developers.
- 50 NEAR Certified Entrepreneurs.
- 15 Developer in Residence.
- 15 Entrepreneurs in Residence.
- 6 DApps launched on mainnet.
Potential partners: (Chile) ; (Perú)
- Asociación Blockchain del Perú, CryptoChile, Women in Fintech
- Asociación Fintech del Perú, Fintech Chile
- StartUp Perú, StartUp Chile
- Woman Who Code
- Laboratoria
- PyLadies Chile, Perú
- Front-end Community Developers
- Back-end Community Developers
- PUCP, PUCH
- UP, UAI
- UNI, USACH
- UDEP, ULIMA,
- WOMAN IN FINTECH
- USIL, UTEC
FintechLab Team members:
For more than 6 months as a FintechLab community, it has been working on this line closer to Near Hispano. What is intended to be achieved now is that through the FintechLab Academy, we can reach more students and entrepreneurs virtually to grow the ecosystem to have a Specialist Career in Blockchain for business, Decentralized finance (DeFi), and development in blockchain supported by the community in those countries.
After our participation and collaborating with Near through be part of Near Certified Developer (NCD), Near Certified Profesor (NCP), Near Certified Instructor (NCI), Developer In Residence (DiR) and Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR), we are really excited to propose the creation of FintechLab Academy focus on Decentralize Finance (DeFi) products using Near Blockchain Technology.
Team Member in Education Development and Entrepreneur Defi
Ecosystem | Country | Member | Certificates | Responsibility | NEAR Ecosystem ConnectionNEAR Ecosystem Connection |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Near | Chile | Valentina De Vidts | MRK | OWS Guild Moderator | Open Web Sandbox |
FintechLab | Perú/Chile | Rosa Maria Orellana | NCD I, NCP*, EiR, DiR | Leadership / Community Builder | Ecosystem Defi & Fintech |
FintechLab | Chile | Dennis Vivas Zelada | NCD I, EiR , DiR | Support as Blockchain Entrepreneur | Ecosystem Entrepreneur |
FintechLab | Perú | Walquer Valles | NCD I, NCI* , DiR | Instructor | Near University |
FintechLab | Perú | Sebastián Gomez | NCD I | Community Lead | Near University |
FintechLab | Chile | Julia Gonzales | NCD I | Social media marketer | Near University |
Product Escrow DeFi on Near Protocol - FintechLab
- Esccrow.finance (https://esccrow.finance) MVP
- github smartContract GitHub - fintechla/esccrow: A decentralized escrow account to help users buying non-fungible tokens with secure payments using Blockchain technology.
- github Dapp GitHub - fintechla/esccrow_dapp
- Figma Prototype https://www.figma.com/file/QH12QHxRWz0MrVOJQ37F2K/Home?node-id=0%3A1
This proposal will be executed by FintechLab team in Chile:
- Rosa María Orellana, Founder & CEO FintechLab @cryptochix.near → NEAR Enterpreneur in Residence & Developer In Residence
- Dennis Vivas Zelada, CoFounder & CFO FintechLab @d3nn1svz.near → NEAR Entrepreneur in Residence.
- FintechLab Team → 3 people helping to support the activities