User Spotlight #1: From Mantle Learning Track to An Independent Project - How Gony Explores Web3

As a Web2 developer, Gony is like many who are curious about web3: finds the field to be revolutionary and keen to learn about the technology, but at the same time, feels a bit suspicious of this field being just a blast, instead of a long steady developing sector.

Bearing this thought, Gony embarked on his web3 journey seeking an answer. Spoil alert: he is a firm believer in web3 now!

Since then, Gony has become an active participant of the two-week long co-learning camp - he joined every single session, asked questions, and learned along the way. According to Gony, the 2 hour session every other day covered many basic concepts in Web3 that cemented his foundational understanding of the field. He is appreciative of the community that HackQuest created in the co-learning camp. The morale of the group was really helpful in encouraging him to learn and grow.

With the support from the co-learning camp, Gony was able to finish all courses and eventually earned his certificate when completed the Mantle learning track. When reflecting on the learning experience, Gony confessed that this journey was not easy and HackQuest made it easier for users to keep up the learning.

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With the belief that developing skills do not just acquired through learning, Gony uses what he learned, and of course more learning and searching, to develop a voting dApp. He sees it as a way to test his learning and further explore his interests.

“After I completed the Mantle learning track, I’ve been thinking of ways to apply what I learned through building my own projects.” When asked about specific objectives he wished to achieve, Gony laughed and said “I just had an idea to create a dApp for voting and went for it. Didn’t think much.”

Gony’s original idea of the dApp was to develop a voting system where people can vote anonymously by leveraging Web3’s decentralized feature. At first, he wanted to ensure that this function would work: when people vote, the dApp evaluates whether it is valid based on the vote received. If it identifies that one person submits more than one vote, then all votes from that person will be labeled invalid and not counted. Eventually, the dApp will count the number of votes for yeas and nays.

Reflecting on the development journey, Gony said that the Mantle learning track experience is crucial for him to establish his own projects.

As a strong advocate for execution, Gony is eager to join hackathons and work on more exciting projects with like-minded frens. He recently participated in Chainlink Global Hackathon and his project AuctionClub earned the third place in Prelim! Let’s take a closer look at his project AuctionClub:

AuctionClub is a smart contract-based auction platform that provides traders with a fair and reliable auction environment. The platform currently supports two auction modes: English auction and Dutch auction. It also offers a variety of trading rules that sellers can freely combine. Additionally, the platform implements an incentive mechanism to provide positive feedback to bidders. Active participation in bidding can earn bidders auction shares and extract huge profits.

By introducing an incentive mechanism for auctions, the platform expects to attract more bidders, increase the activity and volume of auctions. Meanwhile, the setting of the pledging mechanism and platform service fees will ensure the security and sustainable operation of the platform.

AuctionClub is committed to providing users with a high-quality auction experience and aims to become a leader in the auction industry through innovative auction models and intelligent auction processes.

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Looking ahead, Gony believes that Web3 will be the future. “Web2 has entered a relatively saturated stage where most things have been discovered, so not much room for further growth. On the contrary, Web3 is still a relatively unexplored field not many real-world related applications have been developed. For example, I once attended a meet-up and found that a team was working on developing smart devices, which would be great if used in real life.” He reckoned that the approach of application development in Web3 provides unique angles to tackle problems in our daily lives and has the potential to resolve many puzzles that Web2 is incapable of solving. In general, he believes that Web3 is consistently growing and blockchain can be leveraged to make people’s lives better and more convenient.