
Explore Ardor blockchain basics, from setting up a wallet and sending transactions to creating your own cryptocurrency, a decentralized exchange, smart contracts, voting, document sharing, encrypted messaging, and decentralized marketplaces.
Download the Ardor wallet and install the Windows installer, choosing mainnet or testnet and following the eight steps while staying aware of phishing risks.
Set up the Ardor wallet by creating an account, securing a 12‑word passphrase, and recording your public account address and public key, while safeguarding the passphrase.
Learn why you declare a public key on the Ardor blockchain during your first transaction, linking a 256-bit public key to a passphrase and account ID for security.
Learn how to obtain Ardor by buying bitcoin, exchanging it for Ardor on an exchange, and transferring funds to an Ardor wallet, with safety steps for a correct wallet address.
Make your first order transaction by sending ardor to a new account and declaring your public key on the blockchain. Enter recipient and minimum fee, paste your passphrase, and submit.
Explore other Ardor accounts by clicking account IDs to view balances and transactions, including ordinary payments and child chain transactions.
Forge on the arder system with proof of stake, requiring a live connection and sufficient arder; the forger is selected at random, weighted by balance, and earns block fees.
Explore the Ardor system's parent chain and its child chains, showing how child chain transactions piggyback on the parent's cryptographic security and are bundled for integration.
Learn how bundling links child chains to the Ardor parent chain, view balances, and how a bundler forms Ignus blocks and pays the forger with a 0.01 arder minimum.
Explore how bundling works by inspecting blocks in the Ignus forger system, identify bundlers and forgers, and learn how minimum rates and Ardor fees drive Ignus rewards.
See how the decentralized exchange in the Ardor wallet lets you trade Ignus with Ardor, view orders, place bids, and switch between Ignus and Ardor for reciprocal trades.
Explore plug ins as third-party apps for the Ardor order system; learn how developers can build tools to visualize money movements and art prices, noting no functional plugins exist yet.
Explore advanced functions in the Ardor blockchain bootcamp with three Ardor accounts to understand the four main units of the exchange and complete exercises.
Learn to access the Ardor testnet, switch between Ardor and Ignus test environments, and use fake tokens to safely experiment without risking real assets.
Fund the Ardor testnet by using the faucet to obtain 1900 Ardor or Ignus test tokens, confirm your wallet ID and email, then wait 20–30 minutes for credits.
Explore phased transactions in Ardor, learning how to create approval models and then execute transactions only when predefined conditions are met, including multi-party approvals and time or balance constraints.
Practice phased transactions by sending Ignus from one account to another with a third account approving, then create the approval model and execute the transaction.
Walks through executing a phased transaction on Ardor by selecting a child chain (Ignus), creating an approval model, configuring a white list, and submitting a transaction that requires multi-account approval.
Explore how assets work in the Ardor blockchain, including issuing shares, setting quantities and decimals, transferring ownership, and using the asset exchange to buy, sell, or receive dividends.
Explore a functioning Ardor asset on the asset exchange, learn to locate and add assets, view issuer and ownership distribution, and prepare for an asset creation exercise.
Issue the SRT asset with 100 shares split 75% to founder one and 25% to founder two, simulate a 50 Ignus dividend by ownership (70/25/5%), noting bundler readiness in testing.
Issue Ignus shirts as an asset with 100 shares and two decimals from the co-founders' account using a passphrase, costing 10 Ignus; view on dashboard, may take minutes to appear.
Explains issuing a 100-share asset, distributing 75/25 to founders, transferring 25 shares, and adjusting ownership through increasing and deleting shares, with bundler checks and Ignus fees.
Demonstrates asset management in the Ardor bootcamp, updating ownership through transfers, selling and buying shares on the asset exchange with Ignus, and preparing to send dividends.
Distribute Ignus dividends to 100 shares at 0.5 each in Ardor blockchain bootcamp asset solution 4, using a snapshot of holders and an UN approval model for sales.
Explore the monetary system in arder, detailing exchangeable versus controllable currencies and the role of Ignus assets. Learn instant release, reserveable, and mintable release styles.
Explore the Ardor monetary system by inspecting the currency dashboard, and learn how to issue an instantly created currency with exchangeable and controllable features, supply, decimals, and fees.
Issuing a currency, tracking confirmations, and reviewing distribution, the lecture guides you through using the Test Quinte on the Ardor dashboard to exchange, transfer, and place an offer.
Learn to build a reserve and claimable currency in the Ardor blockchain bootcamp by creating a test coin, setting minimums, reserving 700 tokens, and claiming 350 with activation height tips.
Learn to create a test coin in Ardor with reserve and claimable settings, set initial supply to zero, adjust minimum per unit, and align reserve and total supply with activation height.
Reserve 700 Teske coin B from account 9 WQXR in the monetary system, with a target reserve of 280, then confirm to see the reserve increase on the dashboard.
Reserving and releasing 700 test coin B unlocks full ownership, showing all 700 under my currencies and enabling a 350 claim back at a 2.8 Ignus total cost.
Explore the Ardor voting system, including active polls, finished polls, and bookmarks. Learn how to create polls with weighted voting, minimum balances, and range-based answers, and review poll results.
Explore a weighted voting exercise on the Ardor blockchain, simulating a sale vote to sell to Nike, where co-founders and an investor vote, weighting by the SRT yes asset.
Learn to create a weighted poll by asset balance for a proposed Nike sale, configure yes/no options, set finish time, calculate the fee, and confirm on the dashboard.
Follow how a pool is confirmed and a Nike sale vote is cast in active polls, with weighted votes (70 vs 5) and results tallied at final height.
Explore data cloud on Ardor blockchain by uploading and downloading documents, and searching by account ID or free text with tags. Learn upload steps: name, tags, file, fee, and passphrase.
Explore a fully decentralized Ardor marketplace with functional orders, searchable listings by id, description, or tags, and a view of recent purchases and completed orders.
Browse the listings, click coffee and croissant, and purchase with a passphrase to view the marketplace purchase, the three Ignus price, and the block and confirmations in the dashboard.
Create an Ardor marketplace listing by entering a description and comma-separated tags, setting a price, optionally uploading an image, calculating a fee, and publishing with your passphrase.
Anonymize tokens by routing them through a group to a new account, breaking block chain traceability. Learn how to create or join a shuffle with amount and deadline to participate.
Learn how the Ardor messaging system encrypts messages and decrypts them via passphrase or shared key. Explore how fees vary for encrypted and never-deleted messages and how to send files.
Discover how Ardor aliases substitute words or phrases, register unique aliases, and map them to an account or destination, with options to transfer, sell, or delete.
Explore external resources for Ardor, including the online magazine next year, the XTi Wiki, gello read dot com, and active communities on Slack and Reddit.
Wrap up the Ardor blockchain bootcamp: learn to create cryptocurrency, perform transactions, vote on blocks, create assets, and upload documents to Jane in a fully decentralized marketplace.
This course will take you from complete beginner to expert in the Ardor system! By the end, you will be able to build amazing products, impress your friends, and execute your business ideas. Ardor is a cryptocurrency and complete blockchain product. You do NOT need any programming or technical skills for this class. You will be taught how to make your own cryptocurrency that you can immediately list on a decentralized exchange. You will be able to create stock shares in a company (called "assets"). You will be able to upload/download files directly from a blockchain database. You will be able to sell and buy physical and digital items on a decentralized marketplace. You will be able to create a voting system for real-life elections and polls. Ardor is the premier Blockchain-as-a-Solution (BaaS) product, and this course will teach you everything you need to know in order to use it confidently!
Great for fans of Bitcoin, Ethereum or EOS who are interested in exploring other blockchain technologies! Ardor is a superb platform for blockchain development.