RareSkills

What RareSkills does

RareSkills is a private, bootstrapped Web3 education company founded in 2022 and domiciled in Henderson, Nevada (RareSkills LLC). The company operates an education platform that trains senior software engineers and security researchers in advanced blockchain development, with a curriculum spanning Solidity, Zero Knowledge proofs (Groth16, Circom, Bulletproofs, NTT), Rust, Uniswap V3 concentrated liquidity, and smart contract security topics including invariant testing. The platform combines paid cohort-based bootcamps with a substantial library of free technical content (the ZK Book, the Ultimate Solidity Course, 60 Days of Solana, and 700+ exercises) that functions as a top-of-funnel lead generation asset and a de facto community reference standard. Bootcamps are delivered in 3- to 14-week instructor-led formats priced at approximately $3,000 upfront or ~$1,125 per month on installments, with a 14-day full refund window.

The go-to-market motion is content-first and community-driven: free resources attract senior engineers and auditors from organizations including Ethereum Foundation, Chainlink Labs, Lido, Matter Labs (zkSync), Consensys, OpenZeppelin, Coinbase, and over 60 other Web3 employers; this organic funnel converts into paid bootcamp applications. The company supplements core tuition revenue with bespoke enterprise engineering training, a subscription-based Rust exercise product (RareCode), and the RareTalent job platform that connects alumni to hiring companies. Strategic ecosystem partnerships — including a Solana Foundation grant for the 60 Days of Solana tutorial and co-marketing arrangements with Base (Coinbase L2) and Monad — embed RareSkills across multiple L1/L2 communities. The team is small (11-50 employees), founder/instructor-led (Jeffrey Scholz, João Paulo Morais, Daniel Cumming), and self-funded through tuition, with no disclosed external institutional investment.

Name

RareSkills

Legal name

RareSkills LLC

Website

https://rareskills.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RareSkills is a bootstrapped Web3 education company that delivers cohort-based bootcamps and free technical content to train senior blockchain engineers and smart contract security researchers, serving individual developers and enterprise clients like Chainlink, Lido, and Matter Labs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Web3 Developer Education and Training

NAICS

Computer Training (61142), Computer Training (611420)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Technical Bootcamps & Accelerated Reskilling (Full-time/Part-time) (BPAEANAE)

Keywords

• Web3 developer training
• Blockchain bootcamp programs
• Solidity certification courses
• Smart contract security education
• Zero knowledge proof training

Headquarters

HQ city

Henderson

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Cohort-Based Bootcamp Tuition: RareSkills generates primary revenue through paid cohort-based bootcamps where students pay tuition upfront or via monthly installments. Bootcamps are instructor-led over multi-week periods (3-14 weeks) with live sessions, community access, and structured curriculum. Engineering teams from companies like Chainlink and Lido use these courses to train engineers.
2. Free Content and Community: Free blog articles, tutorials, exercises, the ZK Book, Solidity course, and Solana tutorial serve as top-of-funnel lead generation. These resources build brand authority and trust, driving applications to paid bootcamps. RareTalent provides a secondary revenue-adjacent function connecting graduates with hiring companies.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

RareSkills sells advanced Web3 and blockchain developer training through instructor-led, cohort-based bootcamps covering Solidity, zero knowledge proofs, Rust, Uniswap V3, Circom, and smart contract security (typically 3-14 weeks in length). The paid bootcamps are supported by an extensive free content library (ZK Book, Ultimate Solidity Course, 60 Days of Solana, exercise repositories) that serves as a top-of-funnel acquisition channel, alongside a subscription-based Rust practice platform (RareCode) and a Web3 career services sub-brand (RareTalent).

Product overview

RareSkills is an advanced Web3 blockchain education platform offering cohort-based bootcamps and free educational resources. The core paid offerings include six bootcamps: Advanced Solidity + DeFi (13 weeks), ZK Bootcamp (14 weeks), Rust Bootcamp (3 weeks), Uniswap V3 Bootcamp (12 weeks), Circom Bootcamp (7 weeks), and Invariant Testing Bootcamp (5 weeks). These are complemented by subscription-based RareCode for Rust exercises. The free offerings include ZK Book (comprehensive zero knowledge tutorial), The Ultimate Solidity Course (beginner to advanced), and 60 Days of Solana, plus an extensive exercises library. RareTalent provides career services for job placement. The platform targets senior developers, auditors, and engineering leaders rather than beginners.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RareTalent: Web3 career services platform connecting developers with job opportunities in the Web3 space.

Products and services

• Advanced Solidity + DeFi Bootcamp A 13-week advanced cohort-based bootcamp for blockchain engineers, technical founders, and engineering leaders covering the mental models and mathematical frameworks behind protocols like Compound and Uniswap.
• ZK Bootcamp A 14-week cohort-based bootcamp focused on understanding zero knowledge proofs deeply enough to implement Groth16 and Pinocchio algorithms without AI assistance.
• Rust Bootcamp A 3-week intensive Rust programming bootcamp covering the most loved language on Stack Overflow for 7 consecutive years.
• Uniswap V3 Bootcamp A 12-week deep dive into Uniswap V3, the most forked concentrated liquidity protocol in DeFi with over $2.5 billion in TVL.
• Circom Bootcamp A 7-week Applied ZK Bootcamp teaching how to code applications using ZK circuits with Circom.
• Invariant Testing Bootcamp A 5-week bootcamp covering stateful fuzzing to secure and break smart contracts.
• RareCode A subscription-based platform offering over 700 Rust exercises to help developers write their first 1,000 lines of Rust.
• RareTalent A Web3 career services platform connecting RareSkills graduates with job opportunities at top Web3 companies, offering free CV review and targeted job matching.

Quantifiable outcome

• Alumni co-authored EIP-3643, ERC-6960, and ERC-7410 — major Ethereum standards — demonstrating the caliber of practitioners trained.
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Base (Coinbase L2)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBase (Coinbase's Layer 2 network) teamed up with RareSkills to launch the 'Token Standard' initiative, suggesting a co-marketing or educational content partnership around token standards on Base.
• MonadminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRareSkills and Monad partnered to host the 'Ultimate Security Games' — a live smart contract hacking competition at DevConnect in Buenos Aires. Monad's Co-Founder & CEO (Keone Hon) also participated in a RareDay fireside chat. The partnership involves event co-hosting and community engagement.
• CantinaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerRareSkills and Cantina co-hosted a networking mixer in Singapore during Token Week. Cantina is a Web3 security marketplace where RareSkills alumni earn significant bug bounties (e.g., $900,000+ for top earners). The partnership involves community building and cross-promotion.
• OpenZeppelinminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOpenZeppelin publicly acknowledged RareSkills as the leading blockchain education platform encouraging community writers to contribute articles on OpenZeppelin Contracts. This represents mutual recognition and community engagement between the two leading Web3 education and security organizations.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Encode Club: Encode Club runs cohort-based Web3 and blockchain bootcamps for developers, overlapping with RareSkills on Solidity training, global community programming, and accelerator-style cohorts.
• CryptoZombies: CryptoZombies (originally by Loom Network) provides free interactive Solidity and Web3 tutorials; it competes for the same top-of-funnel learners and shares RareSkills' free-content-led funnel strategy.
• Alchemy University: Alchemy University offers free and structured Web3 developer education with a focus on Ethereum and smart contract development, competing for the same intermediate-to-advanced engineering audience.
• Moralis Academy: Moralis Academy delivers paid Web3 and blockchain courses (Solidity, DeFi, smart contracts) targeted at developers — a directly comparable curriculum set and learner demographic to RareSkills.
• LearnWeb3: LearnWeb3 offers free and paid Web3 developer courses covering Solidity, DeFi, and smart contracts — a directly comparable curriculum with similar cohort/community programming.
• Buildspace: Buildspace pioneered cohort-based Web3 development bootcamps and projects, sharing RareSkills' model of project-driven, cohort-based Web3 learning and developer community building.
• Thirdweb Learn: Thirdweb maintains a developer education hub covering Solidity, smart contracts, and Web3 SDKs — comparable to RareSkills' free educational content and serving an overlapping developer audience.
• Cyfrin Updraft: Cyfrin Updraft runs cohort-based and self-paced courses on Solidity, smart contract security, and ZK — directly comparable to RareSkills' core curriculum and audience of Web3 developers and auditors.

Broad incumbents

• Chainlink Labs: Chainlink runs its own developer education and BUILD ecosystem programs at protocol scale; it is both a RareSkills enterprise customer and a broader incumbent in Web3 developer enablement.

Others

• Questbook: Questbook operates Web3 education grants and ecosystem funding adjacent to RareSkills' content; it is a thematic peer in Web3 developer enablement rather than a direct bootcamp competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• GitHubgithub.com/RareSkills

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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