Cardano Academy Adds On-Chain Credentials for Reviewed Work

The Cardano Foundation announced the Cardano Academy Practicum on November 12. Developed with Andamio, the program adds two practical assignments to the Academy’s course offerings. Participants can sign up without a crypto wallet or ADA.

From Submitted Work to a Mainnet Credential

Each assignment has published learning objectives. A Cardano Academy reviewer uses them to assess the participant’s submission. Once the reviewer accepts the work, the participant can claim a credential through Andamio, an open credential protocol built on Cardano.

The mainnet record lets a third party verify the credential without contacting the Academy. For the coding assignment, the reviewer has a separate source of evidence: the transactions the participant completed on Cardano’s Preprod test network.

The UCLA Anderson Capstone Puts the Business Case to the Test

Cardano for the Real World is the capstone for a masterclass run by Cardano Academy and UCLA Anderson. Participants develop a business case, identify a Cardano capability that addresses a specific problem, and explain what they would build first as a prototype.

The pitch is assessed against five learning objectives. Reviewers look for a potential paying customer and a proposed price, as well as an explanation of where the project’s on-chain records would come from and how the team would detect a false record. The pitch assignment opens with the masterclass.

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Coding Students Submit a Transaction Trail

In Agentic Coding on Cardano, participants direct an AI coding agent to build, sign, and submit transactions on Preprod. The course lists nine learning objectives covering tasks such as estimating fees, working with validators, and participating in governance.

The submission includes the prompts given to the agent, transaction IDs, and fees. In one exercise, the participant predicts a fee before submitting the transaction. The reviewer can then look up the transaction and check whether the estimate matches the fee recorded on Preprod down to the lovelace, the smallest unit of ADA.