Over the past year, we've collaborated closely with leading organizations and the world's most distinguished university blockchain organizations.
Together, we've gathered insights from hundreds of thousands of students, engineers, and professionals worldwide to create a framework to officially assess and validate your skills as a professional blockchain developer.
Today, we are thrilled to share the outcome.
Introducing Cyfrin Updraft Certifications.
Enabling developers to showcase their expertise to protocols, employers, and the global community with industry-recognized, expert-endorsed credentials.
Cyfrin Updraft Certifications are an affirmation of knowledge and industry-recognized proof a person has the necessary skills needed to work as a professional smart contract engineer or security researcher. They prove engineers have the knowledge to interact with decentralized technologies and protocols, properly.
Certifications allow smart contract developers worldwide to demonstrate their ability in Solidity or Vyper smart contract development, DeFi, and smart contract security at multiple levels of expertise.
Owning a Cyfrin Updraft Certification signals to protocols, organizations, and potential employers that their knowledge is confirmed, vetted, and validated by Cyfrin and a team of industry-leading professionals. They prove a person possesses the required capability to work as a professional smart contract developer or security researcher, ensuring they can properly execute at both a strategic and practical level.
Cyfrin Updraft Certifications are about attracting and recruiting job-ready, verified professionals who have proven mastery of job requirements.
Certifications are engineered to test real-world skills smart contract developers must have to ensure the quality, security, and long-term sustainability of the projects they work on. Certifications confirm they have the ability to build secure smart contracts and applications that scale and their work is aligned with industry best practices.
Cyfrin Updraft Certifications are supported by top industry organizations and highly recognized global universities, allowing protocols, companies, and startups to tap into a pool of proven, job-ready engineers.
Giving companies and organizations a transparent and trustable way to prove and verify information, Cyfrin Updraft Certifications and Cyfrin Profiles definitively answer the industry’s most pressing question: do you have the skill to get the job done?
Skills and ability have historically been demonstrated through git commits, project contributions, personal networks, and social media positioning. First-person testimonials like these are often the most powerful and have served well in the nascent stages of the industry’s growth.
They’ve worked well in the decentralized, highly anonymous industry that’s grown out of the cypherpunk ethos, but they’re also highly fragmented, with few standardized practices or generally accepted foundations. This approach doesn’t scale and can be a barrier for new entrants.
As the industry matures, the limitations of these methods have begun to manifest. The channels are vulnerable to exaggeration, forgery, and identity theft. These methods often fail to accurately represent someone's actual involvement or capabilities.
Long term sustainability requires a better way. A simpler, and more trustworthy way.
Cyfrin Updraft Certifications enable smart contract developers and security researchers to certify their expertise. And help protocols reduce risk by verifying talent.
Starting today, you can begin scheduling your Cyfrin Solidity Smart Contract Developer Certification (SSCD+).
Over time, additional certifications will launch, including smart contract development certifications such as Vyper Smart Contract Developer (VSCD+), and Solidity Smart Contract Security (SSCS+).
Cyfrin Updraft courses are suggested but not mandatory. Anyone with the necessary development skills can take an exam and get certified if the passing score is met.
Candidates can purchase their Solidity+ certification voucher by visiting: https://updraft.cyfrin.io/certifications/solidity-certification
For more information and pricing, consult the certification-specific pages.
We are thrilled to launch Cyfrin Updraft Certifications with the support of some of the industry's most prominent, and most significant leaders.
Projects on the cutting edge of infrastructure and app/dApp development, security, and education. Teams driving growth, empowering builders, and transforming crypto from nascent to the mainstream.
Including: ZKsync, Chainlink, Uniswap Foundation, Curve Finance, Circle, Rocket Pool, GMX, Eigenlayer, Trezor, Fleek, and Shadow.
Along with globally recognized education partners: CollegeDAO, Cambridge University Blockchain Society, Harvard Undergraduate Blockchain, Oxford Blockchain Society, National University of Singapore Fintech Society, Singapore Management University Blockchain, Boston University Blockchain Club, and H.E.R. DAO.
Additionally, Trezor and Shadow are offering a special bonus to the first developers to complete their certification successfully.
Trezor is giving away 100 Trezor Safe 3 hardware wallets to reward the first 100 students who successfully pass a certification exam of their choice. Trezor was selected as the preferred hardware wallet in Cyfrin Updraft’s wallets lessons for its security, dependability, and ease of use. Be one of the first to get your certification and safeguard your assets for the long term! Note: Unfortunately, this offer is not available in India.
Shadow is also incentivizing developers to get certified with a Cyfrin Updraft Certification. The first 100 developers who pass a certification exam will receive one-month of service to their Pro Shadow Fork plan for free(a $500 value). Power your custom indexer with fast data backfills, unlimited data exports, real-time syncs, and more!
We are grateful for their support and look forward to working with them to further build education and security programs to strengthen the industry.
A new era for smart contract developers begins today.
An era with verified credentials, higher, established knowledge standards, and reliable outcomes for developers, organizations, and the blockchain industry.
Certifications deliver industry-recognized credentials, better hiring, and more secure protocols.
Get your skills validated and secure your future.
Learn more about certification today: https://www.cyfrin.io/certifications/solidity-certification
