Overview
Olympus Insights is an online learning platform with an AI tutor called OLi. Students take short courses on crypto, blockchain, and money basics, and earn rewards as they go, including digital certificates that prove what they learned1. OLi works in a web browser and as an iPhone or Android app, so people can learn from a laptop or a phone.
The platform is built on Cardano and uses it to introduce new people to the ecosystem. When someone signs up, the platform quietly sets up a Cardano wallet for them in the background, so they don't need to know anything about crypto to get started2. Olympus Insights was co-founded by Nathan Barkell and Mark Elliott and works with partners including Socious, HyperCycle, Transcend Labs, and Schoolzine.
Key Features
- A personal AI tutor. OLi adjusts lessons to each learner's pace and goals. You can talk to it by typing, by voice, or through a friendly on-screen avatar, in your own language1.
- Certificates you can prove. When you finish a course, you get a digital certificate recorded on Cardano. Anyone can check it's real, and no one can take it away from you2.
- Earn while you learn. Finishing lessons unlocks points, badges, collectibles, and small crypto rewards. It feels a bit like a game, where you can see your progress add up1.
- A wallet set up for you. A Cardano wallet is created automatically when you sign up, so you can receive rewards without having to install or learn anything extra2.
- Lessons that feel like a game. Quizzes, challenges, and leaderboards keep things lively. The team also plans to add hands-on and virtual-reality lessons later on1.
What to Expect
Sign up on the website or download OLi for iPhone or Android and you can start a course right away. Lessons are short and broken into bite-size pieces, with quizzes along the way. As you finish modules, points, badges, and certificates land in your Cardano wallet, the one the platform sets up for you when you join2. If you want to go further, you can ask the AI tutor to build a learning path around a specific goal, or chat with it by voice when you have a question.
Olympus Insights also runs a country-by-country ambassador program that helps new people get started in their own region. The team has won several rounds of Project Catalyst funding to keep growing the platform, and the blog shares the team's thinking on teaching with AI and bringing more people into Cardano2.
The platform works today, and progress is tracked on the team's public roadmap.
