Open Campus

TinyTap was founded in 2012 as a no-code platform for teacher-made learning games. In November 2022, after Animoca Brands acquired the company, six course-linked Publisher NFTs sold for 138.926 ETH. The company reported that 67.7 ETH went to the six teachers. The NFTs represented co-publishing roles around specific courses; they did not require EDU, which did not yet exist.

That chronology matters. Open Campus inherited a launch partner with users, lessons and a revenue-sharing model. Its contribution was to turn the early NFT experiment into a broader protocol story, not to retroactively create TinyTap's education business.

On 28 April 2023, Binance completed the sale of 50 million EDU at USD 0.05 and opened trading. The BNB contract had already created its entire one-billion supply for constructor recipients. The published allocation reserved 25% for the ecosystem, 15.5% for advisers, 13% for the strategic sale and 10% each for team, treasury and liquidity; initial reported circulation was 145 million.

The canonical contract is unusually plain about future supply. It is not a proxy and has no mint, burn or pause function. Owner 0x5a46…3612 can alter token metadata and recover assets trapped in the contract, but the reviewed code gives it no general path to rewrite holder balances. Allocation and vesting concentration remain economic risks even without an inflation switch.

In November 2023, Publisher NFT Season 2 sold 720 course-linked assets for 538,560 EDU and involved 168 educators. The arrangement gave each creator 50% of net initial proceeds, a 10% continuing share of course revenue and a 5% secondary-sale royalty, while active co-publishers could receive up to 80% of the course's allocated revenue share.

Those rights belong to the relevant Publisher NFT arrangement. Merely holding EDU does not make someone a course co-publisher or entitle them to teacher revenue. EDU was the payment and coordination asset; the NFT and platform terms carried the content-specific economics.

Open Campus ID launched on 23 January 2024. By 18 March, the project reported more than 100,000 claimed identifiers. On 17 January 2025, EDU Chain mainnet followed: an Arbitrum Orbit Layer 3, chain ID 41923, using EDU as native gas. The chain launch turned EDU from a marketplace and governance token into the fee asset for a general application network. Native EDU has no ERC-20 address on that network; 0xd02E…4e12 is WEDU, the separate deposit-and-withdraw wrapper.

Launch does not make every education promise operational. Current user documentation lists Publisher NFT minting and asset purchases as available uses, but still marks verifiable-credential minting and premium Open Campus University access as coming soon. Large partner, wallet, transaction and TVL figures should be read as project-reported reach, not as proof of completed credential adoption.

Yuzu ran an EDU Chain staking program that recorded activity as points. Open Campus ended staking and point accrual on 31 July 2026 and retired its dashboard, faucet, referral and bridge pages. Existing stakers kept an on-chain exit through WEDU. The chain and token continued, but one incentive layer did not.

EDU crossed chains through OFTV2 contracts at 0xf817…4d11 on Ethereum and Arbitrum. A send removes local units and a valid LayerZero message credits the destination, so local supplies fluctuate and cannot simply be added to the canonical billion. The OFTV2 owner 0xec01…573f can change trusted remotes and messaging settings. Both that owner and the BNB token owner are currently EOAs whose human or legal controllers are not identified in the reviewed primary sources.

Governance also has layers. The live DAO forum records proposals and Council elections, while the published process lets EDU holders propose and vote and assigns the Council and administrators to vet guideline compliance. The issuer, EDU Digital (BVI) Ltd, says the token carries no equity, dividend, interest, redemption or claim against Open Campus. Its MiCA paper is an issuer-authored disclosure that explicitly says no competent authority approved it. EDU can coordinate a network; it does not collapse technical control, DAO voice and legal ownership into the same right.