Academia Scrypto was a community-run educational initiative that taught Scrypto, the asset-oriented smart-contract language developed by RadixDLT for the Radix network. It offered free lessons and resources aimed primarily at Spanish- and Italian-speaking developers, published on a project website and companion YouTube channel and mirrored as open content on GitHub.
What it offered
The academy published a progressive, beginner-oriented path into Scrypto fundamentals, requiring no prior programming or blockchain experience. Its stated motivations for learning Scrypto mirrored the language’s own design goals – a lighter learning curve than other smart-contract DSLs, an asset-oriented model designed to reduce costly errors, reusable and composable "Components," and growing demand for Radix developers. Content was maintained in two localisations, the Spanish repository and its Italian translation, so that non-English speakers were not excluded from the ecosystem.
Current status
Academia Scrypto is no longer active. Its website, academiascrypto.com, no longer resolves, and its two GitHub repositories have seen no updates since 2022. The project belongs to Radix’s early Scrypto-education wave, and while its published material survives as static markdown on GitHub, it reflects the language as it stood at that time and is not maintained against current Scrypto releases.
Developers looking for an up-to-date learning path should use the officially maintained resources: the Radix documentation, the interactive Scrypto 101 course, and this wiki’s own install guide and Scrypto fundamentals tutorials.