The Good Tech Companies - Inside the Hardware Vault: Free Web3 Course to Build Robust Apps

Starting point is 00:00:00 This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Inside the Hardware Vault. Free Web 3 course to build robust apps by John Stoy and journalist. Transactions, trades, AI queries, and user actions happen every second across blockchains. The experience people want is simple, click a button and see results instantly. What they often get is something else entirely. Heavy computation, privacy requirements, and gas costs slow everything down. Teams building decentralized applications face the same tension again and again. They need the security of blockchain and the responsiveness of modern apps.

Starting point is 00:00:38 Most compromises have been partial, sometimes sacrificing privacy and often sacrificing speed. A different model has been maturing quietly inside the systems of the world-largest technology companies. Google uses it to protect private AI models. Appleuses it to secure iPhones. Microsoft and OpenAI rely on it for confidential computing. The technology is called trusted execution environments or T's. It creates a sealed hardware vault where sensitive computation can run away from prying eyes, even if the system around it is compromised.

Starting point is 00:01:10 The vault only releases verifiable results. Until recently, these capabilities were not easily available to blockchain developers. That has changed with a joint effort between Binance Academy and Marlin Foundation. Their new course, off-chain computing using T-Co processors, teaches anyone how to build decentralized applications that are fast, private, and verifiable. What had been reserved for big tech now sits open on a free learning platform. The course goes straight to one of the biggest problems in Web 3. How to offload computation from the blockchain without losing trust. T's allow heavy work to happen elsewhere and still produce proof that everything is

Starting point is 00:01:48 correct. Greater than, the constraint has always been clear. Either accept blockchain's transparency greater than in pay the performance cost, or move off-chain and lose verifiability, said greater than Esla Kumar Audieandra, head of product at Marlin. T's collapse that binary, greater than the computation moves, the guarantees stay, and suddenly applications that greater than seemed impossible become straightforward engineering problems. A public course from two unlikely teachers. Binance Academy has built a reputation for courses that stay practical. It HAS educated millions of users on cryptocurrency, Web 3, and security. Marlin, meanwhile, has been developing verifiable compute infrastructure and frameworks that support defy systems. Bringing the two together signals

Starting point is 00:02:34 that T-knowledge is no longer specialist knowledge hidden inside enterprise systems. The curriculum mixes theory, code walkthroughs, and real deployment. Developers learn how T's allow confidential work to run privately, how proofs are regenerated, and how results are pushed back on-chain. What stands out as the focus in real-world utility, students build verifiable AI inference using Marlin-Steemol framework and design high-performance defy systems that operate beyond and chain gas limits. The final challenge is a capstone project on BNB chain, an AI-powered job matching application. It processes sensitive user information, matches candidates with opportunities, and publishes results that validators can verify. At no point does the application expose personal data to servers, validators, or

Starting point is 00:03:22 side observers. The work happens inside secure hardware, yet remains transparent in its outcome. The results highlight YTs have become standard in large tech environments. They make privacy and speed compatible. They protect against predatory bots that exploit transaction data. They allow computations that could not fit on chain without slowing the network. And because the Binance Academy course is free, any developer can enroll without cost barriers or gatekeeping. opening the vault. Web 3 developers have been piecing together workarounds for years. Roll-ups help with scalability. Privacy tools helped hide information. Still, certain use cases remained unsolved. Private order matching, confidential AI, and secure user data needed something

Starting point is 00:04:07 stronger than cryptography alone. Tees fill that gap. The course explains how trusted hardware creates a zone inside a processor where instructions and data remain sealed off. Even if the operating system is compromised, the enclave remains locked. It then produces verifiable results that can be posted to a blockchain. This method lets developers move beyond and chain gas limits while keeping correctness intact. For blockchain builders who come from Web 2 backgrounds, the benefit is striking. They recognize the familiar speed and responsiveness of traditional systems, but ye gain the integrity and auditability of Web 3. Developers want the usability of modern apps without giving up trust, Audieandra said. T's are how you get both. The course does not treat

Starting point is 00:04:52 T's as an abstract security layer. It shows how to build verifiable AI, how to protect order flow from information leaks, and how to keep user data private even while sharing results publicly. The training relies on production-ready tools that Marlin has built over several years. The framework, TML, lets developers run machine learning inside enclaves and push-proofs back on-chain. What once required large infrastructure budgets or proprietary partnerships now appears as a downloadable toolkit backed by step-by-step instruction. Students learn deployment, testing, and integration. They leave with working applications, certification and new builders. Completion of the program gives graduates a joint certificate from Binance Academy and Marlin Foundation. That matters in a

Starting point is 00:05:37 field where practical skill I soften more valuable than abstract theory. Employers, investors, and want builders who can deploy systems and the certificate acts as a signal that someone has done the work. The timing is significant. Web3 applications are growing more complex, and users judge systems by how smoothly they run. Delays cost trades. Poor experiences drive people away. Tees allow computation to leave the chain while staying verifiable. That unlocks use cases that were previously too expensive or Tuzlo. In many ways the joint effort reflects a broader trend. The tools once reserved for large technology companies are moving into public hands. Confidential AI, secure trading, private data workflows, these capabilities now sit beneath a course headline on Binance

Starting point is 00:06:23 Academy. It also reflects confidence from both organizations. Binance Academy has long been being committed to free education. Marlin has been building the infrastructure that makes verifiable compute possible. Together, they are teaching how to use a standard that already runs inside the devices people carry every day. The tone of the initiative is practical rather than idealistic. It does not promise miracles. It promises working systems. The Capstone Project alone, an AI-powered job-matching application, shows that private computation can happen at scale without hiding results or breaking trust. That is the central message. Privacy and verification can live in the same system. For developers, this course raises the ceiling. It makes secure, high-performance

Starting point is 00:07:08 decentralized applications feasible. It gives them the Sammy tools used by giants, and it does so for free. Enrollment is open at Binance Academy. Anyone can join, regardless of background. What they learn inside the course will ripple outward as new systems appear on chains across the industry. The vault has opened. What Builders DO with it will be the real story to watch? Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by artificial intelligence. Visit Hackernoon.com to read, write, learn and publish. Thank you.

The Good Tech Companies - Inside the Hardware Vault: Free Web3 Course to Build Robust Apps

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