Imagine finishing a course and actually walking away with a digital token in your pocket—something you can see, trade, or use to unlock your next lesson. That’s the reality LERN360.ai is rolling out today as it kicks off its seed round. The goal? To tear down the walls of traditional online education and give both students and teachers a stake in the system they’re building together.
“Education shouldn’t require permission, tuition debt, or centralized control,” said Nathan Mahalingam, Founder and President of LERN360. “We’re building a participatory learning economy that empowers students, rewards educators, and scales through community.”
And this community-centric vision is baked right into LERN360’s design: every certificate you earn lives on the blockchain, every lesson you take can adapt to how you learn best, and every piece of content an instructor creates directly rewards them—no middlemen, no hidden fees.
From Micro-Certs to Decentralized University
If you’re curious about the LERN token itself, here’s the quick rundown: there will be a total of 1 billion tokens, with 10 percent up for grabs in this early seed round at just two cents apiece. Those tokens aren’t just collectibles—they’re your “all-access pass” to premium courses, your reward for finishing modules, and eventually your ticket to vote on how LERN360 evolves.
PancakeSwap trading starts a couple of weeks after tokens are minted, and before long you’ll see LERN on bigger exchanges, too. Behind the scenes, LERN360 uses Hyperledger Fabric to issue ironclad certificates—no more printing or PDF downloads that anyone could forge—and Polygon Layer 2 so transactions happen lightning-fast and almost free.
Add in AI that tweaks your study plan on the fly and translates materials into more than 15 languages, and you’ve got a learning platform that really travels: from a dorm room in Kuala Lumpur to a café in Nairobi, anyone can join in.
Teachers aren’t forgotten, either. Leon Loo, LERN360’s Chief Investor Strategy Officer, highlights how educators set their own prices and see every token their students earn: “Our goal isn’t to build the next online university—it’s to build a learning ecosystem that anyone can access, shape, and grow. Web3 allows us to go beyond content delivery and create a decentralized economy for education.”
Early pilots with ICMS University College in Malaysia back this up: student engagement is up, completion rates look promising, and instructors say it’s the most transparent payout model they’ve ever seen.
What’s next? After this three-week seed window closes (or the allocation fills), LERN360 plans to launch bite-sized certifications, training tools for businesses, community grants, and—best of all—a DAO that hands real decision-making power over to token holders. There’s even talk of a fully decentralized university, where the syllabus itself could be crowd-sourced and voted into existence.
If you’d like to jump in early, head over to their webpage and get the latest updates on the seed round. Whether you’re itching to learn something new or you’ve got lessons to share with the world, LERN360 is rolling out a classroom without borders—one token at a time.
