Getting Industry Ready with Blockchain
This course sets you on a path to explore how Blockchain is revolutionizing several different industries - all at once - and, the skills required to test your mettle there. This course will allow you to take up more technical courses further.
Abhishek Bhattacharya
Program Features
- Start date: Aug 31, 2021
- Online Prerequisite:
- No pre-requisites required.
- Interactive LMS Content
- Blockchain-based Certificate
Program Features
- Start date: Aug 31, 2021
- Online Prerequisite:
- No pre-requisites required.
- Interactive LMS Content
- Blockchain-based Certificate
Description
Please find the course pitch below, which should help you (in brief) to understand whether this course is meant for you (which ideally should be the case as this course has no pre-requisites and typically makes you industry-ready):
Introduction
A quick 75-minute shot to this revolutionary industry
- Blockchain Basics
- The Math Underneath
- Decentralization
- Distributed Consensus
- Consensus Mechanisms
- The Variety of Blockchains
- Generations of Blockchain
Time for Tech
- Understanding Cryptography
- Mining
- Forks
- Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) & Smart Contracts
- DApps (Decentralized Applications)
- DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)
Hands-On: Best way to learn is by getting your hands dirty. Build a blockchain/ERC20 token of your own!
The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon
- History
- What is an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)?
- ERC20 & Other Token Standards
- Utility & Security Tokens
- All-time Popular Projects
Program Syllabus
Course Structure / Program Syllabus:
Introduction
- Blockchain Basics
- Blueprint for a New Economy
- Decentralization
- Smart Incentivization
- Network Worth
- Bitcoin - Blockchain’s First Implementation
- Distributed Consensus
- Consensus Mechanisms
- PoW (Proof of Work)
- PoS (Proof of Stake)
- DPoS (Delegated Proof of Stake)
- BFT (Byzantine Fault Tolerance)
- PoET (Proof of Elapsed Time)
- The Variety in Blockchain
- Public Blockchain
- Private Blockchain
- Permissioned or Consortium Blockchain
- Generations of Blockchain
- First (Bitcoin)
- Second (Ethereum)
- Third (IOTA)
- Fourth (?)
Time For Tech
- Understanding Cryptography
- Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography
- Popular Algorithms (SHA, MD5, RSA)
- Mining and More
- CPU vs GPU vs ASIC vs Quantum Computing
- How Tx(s) are picked
- Nodes
- Full Nodes
- Partial Nodes
- The Crypto-Puzzle
- Mempools
- Genesis Block
- Orphaned Blocks
- Tx(s) & UTXOs
- SegWit
- Wallets
- Forks
- Soft Fork
- Hard Fork
- User-Activated Soft Fork
- EVM & Smart Contracts
- Decentralized Applications (DApps)
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
- The 51% Attack - The Unhackable Truth about Blockchains
- Hands-on: Create a blockchain/token of your own and,
- Implement PoW for your blockchain.
- Create an ERC20 token on a testnet.
The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon
- Types of Tokens
- Utility Tokens
- Security Tokens
- An Initial Coin Offering
- What is an ICO?
- History
- Comparison with an IPO
- What is a Security Token Offering (STO)?
- Ethereum-based Token Standards
- ERC20
- ERC223
- ERC721
- ERC621
- ERC827
- ERC1400
- ERC1155
- All-time Popular Projects
- Ethereum
- NEO
- Hyperledger
The Conclusion
- Ending Note
- What future does Blockchain have?
- Career Prospects for you.
- A Disclaimer about ICOs & other forms of crypto-investments.
- Environmental Impacts and the race between stakeholders.