📄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