Polkadot Giveaway to Bootstrap Revolut Crypto Education Series

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Revolut is launching a financial literacy course for cryptocurrency holders and it’s commencing with a DOT giveaway. Revolut app users who complete the short quiz at the end of the module will receive $15 of Polkadot’s native currency courtesy of Web3 Foundation and Polkadot. Naturally, the questions pupils are expected to answer revolve around the blockchain ecosystem conceived by Dr. Gavin Wood.

It’s become de rigueur for crypto companies to launch educational courses for their users, but only a handful have gone down the Revolut route of including participation awards. With more than 80 cryptocurrencies supported by the financial savings app and built-in wallet, it’s become desirable for Revolut to disseminate information on the workings of each asset and specifically what makes it different. And what better way to maximize participation than with a $15 bonus for completing the first quiz?

As Revolut’s Crypto General Manager Emil Urmashin notes, “There’s a huge appetite from our customers to learn more about cryptocurrencies.” To facilitate this, the financial app has created Learn & Earn, a pithy title for a concise course on all things crypto. The first module, ‘Crypto Basics,’ does just that, providing an overview of blockchain technology, before tackling Polkadot specifically.

Revolut customers will be shown a series of short videos and flash cards that detail how the Polkadot network of parachains works, the role the relay chain plays, and how the DOT token is used to implement such use cases as governance. Future modules will do the same with other crypto networks, and are