Course Overview :

Blockchain is a secure, transparent, and decentralized ledger technology that records transactions without intermediaries. It has many potential uses, including in cryptocurrency and supply chain management, and can increase efficiency, security, and trust.

Course Content :

Introduction to Blockchain

• Introduction to Blockchain, the technology of Blockchain

• Network and mechanism, history of the blockchain

• The benefits of Blockchain

• Blocks and transactions

• Peer to Peer systems, the block structure in the blockchain

• What is Dynamic shared ledger?

• Digital signatures

• How to build a blockchain solution?

• Hashes as addresses, Using a key as identity

• Ways of storing Bitcoin Keys

• Trade and transact with Bitcoins

• Global Blockchain Ecosystem Core

• Layers Of A Blockchain

• Data Layer, Network Layer, Consensus Layer

 Detailed study of Blockchain

• Understanding what is bitcoin

• The network of bitcoins

• How to mine a bitcoin?

• The various bitcoin wallets

• What are the alternative blockchains available?

• What is a smart contract?

• What are a public network and a private consortium?

• Ethereum Virtual Machine, the Merkle Tree

• The Ethereum environment

• DApps, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)

• The problem of double-spend

• How blockchain impacts cryptocurrencies?

• Mechanics Of Bitcoin, Transcriptions, Scripts, Blocks

• Peer-to-peer network

• Security Measures

Blockchain and Bitcoin

• Identify Bitcoin and its Era Understand Where & How to Get Bitcoins

• Identify Bitcoin Wallets

• Identify Jaxx Wallet

• Define Selling Bitcoins

• Compare Bitcoin Blockchain

• Transaction & Transaction Script Describe Various Transaction Forms in Bitcoin

• Define Scripts in Bitcoin, List Nodes in Bitcoin Network

 Bitcoin Mining

• Understand Economics of Bitcoin

• Define Bitcoin Mining

• Describe Fabrication of a Block Header

• Define Mining

• Identify Successful

• Mining List Difficulties in Solo Mining

• Understand Mining: By pool of Miners

• Mining and consensus, autonomous verification of mining

• Independent verification of mining

• Checklist for verification of mining

• Combining transactions into blocks, combination of verified transactions, combining transactions into blocks

• Portrayal of difficulty, condition of difficulty

• Creation of block header, main chain, orphan block, creation of new block,independent validation of new block

• The race for bitcoin mining and hash race

• Difficulty rising with the hashing power of the miners, solo mining

• Difficulty of solo mining

• Benefits of pooled mining, types of mining pools

 Ethereum and working with Smart Contracts

• Understand Ethereum

• Define Smart Contracts

• Identify Cryptocurrency used in Ethereum

• Describe Transactions in Ethereum

• Define Consensus Mechanism in Ethereum

• List Development Technologies

• Identify Ethereum Clients

• Define Platform Functions

• Understand Solidity

• Describe Solidity Operators and Functions, setting up Metamask

• How to interface with ethereum network, first smart contract

• Ethereum accounts and how to receive ether

• Structuring a contract, declaring a function

• Deploying and redeploying of a contract

• Comparing Wei & Ether

• What is a gas transaction?

• Remix testing

Setting up a private Blockchain environment

• Understand Creating Smart Contracts on Ethereum Remix Browser

• Define MetaMask

• Describe Installing Blockchain

• Perform Go lang Installation

• Explain Creating Blockchain – Genesis Block List Genesis.json File Parameters

• Explain Making rules for our Blockchain

• Perform Mining Blockchain

• Contract Deployment for Blockchain Environment, Boilerplate Requirements

• Project File Walkthrough, Syntax Highlighters, Compiling Solidity

• The Compile Script, Testing Architecture, Running Windows

• Installing Modules, Web3 Versioning, Web3 Providers,

• Refactor to Async/Await

• Deployment with Web3, Web3 Version Fix

• Verifying the Initial Message, Testing Message Updates

• Deployed Contracts in Remix, Complete Example: Crowd Funding

• Smart Contract, Complete Example: Voting Ballot Smart Contract

• Ethereum Application Architecture, Application Overview

• Getting Started with Create-React-App, Multiple Web3 Instances, Web3 Setup

Hyperledger

• Define Hyperledger Blockchain,

• Understand Hyperledger Consensus Algorithm

• Explain Hyperledger Iroha

• Identify Hyperledger Components

• Describe Setting up Channels, Policies, and Chain codes

• List Hyperledger Explorer Components

• Define Hyperledger Composer

• Introduction to Hyperledger

• What is Hyperledger?

• Distributed Ledger Technology & its Challenges

• Hyperledger & Distributed Ledger Technology

• Setting up the Hyperledger Fabric Developer Environment Tools

• Linux/Ubuntu & AWS: Setup of Fabric Development on Local & Cloud VM

• Mac OS: Setup of Fabric Development Environment

• Windows: Fabric development environment setup

• How to use the Dev Tools, Development Environment Topology, Fabric Under the Hood (Concepts & Terminology), Ledger Implementation

• Dev Environment Walkthrough: Peer & CouchDB setup, Ledger Implementation

• Peers Nodes: Anchors and Endorsers, Anchor Peers & Endorsing Peers

• Clients Node: Endorsement Policies, Client Peer & Endorsing Policies, Orderer  Nodes

• Membership Service Provider & Certification Authority

• Dev Environment Walkthrough: Orderer and CA Server, Chaincode Development

Hyperledger Composer

• What is hyperledger composer?

• Benefits of hyperledger composer, conceptual components, and structure

• Example business network car auction market

• Conceptual components and structures

• The model, ACL, script file, metadata, the archive, open development toolset

• Modeling business networks, testing business networks

• Hyperledger composer playground

• Developing application using Hyperledger composer

 Creating private Blockchain with Multichain

• Define Multichain

• Describe MultiChain Streams

• Create & deploy private blockchain

• Explain Connecting to a Blockchain

• Identify Multichain Interactive Mode

• List Native assets

• Define Transaction Metadata

• Explain Streams Explain Mining

• Bitcoin to private blockchain

• Aim of multichain, hand-shake process, multi-chain use cases, multichain   permission

• Multichain assets and multichain streams

• Basics of retrieving from streams

• Consensus model

• Multichain flexibility

• Deployment options

• Speed and scalability of multichain

• Downloading and installing multichain

• Initializing blockchain

• Connecting to blockchain

• Connecting from second server

• Permission for connection

• Multichain interactive mode

• Creating new address, connected peers, native assets

• Permission to create assets, new assets

• Verifying transactions

• Checking asset balance, resending assets, transaction metadata

Blockchain Use Cases

• Selected potential Use Cases in Blockchain

• Proof of existence, Record keeping, Identity management

• UPROOV – Mobile Trust Machine, Log operational maintenance data

• Car leasing and Sales – DocuSign, Forecasting – Augur, Online music problem solution

• Forecasting – Augur, Online music problem solution

• Cloud storage, STORJ – Decentralized cloud storage

• Retail – OpenBazaar

• Ascribe – Secure your work, Ride sharing, supply chain management

• Blockchain and IoT

• Autonomous Decentralized Peer to Peer Telemetry

• ADEPT, IBM Watson IoT

• IOTA, Freight Transportation

• Banking industry projects – Payments, KYC, Trading platform

• Fraud reduction, Loan Management Process, Capital Market System

• Government – Online Voting, Capital Markets, Real Estate, Devising Public  Policy

• Georgia – Blockchain Land Registry

• Estonia – Identity management and e-voting, Delaware

• USA – Smart contracts, Public Policy

• Dubai – Digital passports