Course curriculum

  • 1

    Origin of Blockchain Technology - Week 1

    • Electronic Systems and Trust

    • Bitcoin Predecessors

    • The Bitcoin Experiment

    • Bringing Bitcoin to Life
  • 2

    Introduction to Blockchain

    • What is Blockchain?

    • Why is Blockchain a Distributed, P2P Network?

    • Blockchain Vs Cryptocurrency

    • Types of Blockchain

    • What are different Blockchain Technologies?

    • Benefits of using Blockchain Technology
  • 3

    Blockchain Ecosystem

    • Merkle Tree and Hashing

    • Blocks, Wallets and Addresses

    • Public and Private Key

    • Cryptography and Cryptographic Algorithms

    • Transaction Execution and Distribution

    • Components of Blockchain Ecosystem

    • Blockchain Architecture
  • 4

    Blockchain Mining

    • What is Blockchain Mining?

    • Types of Mining

    • Who are Miners?
  • 5

    Transactions UTXO Vs Account Model

    • Transactions UTXO Vs Account Model
  • 6

    Consensus Algorithm

    • What is Consensus?

    • Types of Consensus Algorithms

    • Proof-of-Burn(PoB) & Proof-of-Weight(PoWeight)

    • Leased Proof-of-Stake(LPOS)
  • 7

    Blockchain Solutions - Steps and measures

    • Blockchain Solutions - Steps and measures
  • 8

    Use-Cases of Blockchain

    • Blockchain use cases in Financial Sector

    • Blockchain use cases in Business Sector

    • Blockchain use cases in Government & Public Sector

    • Blockchain in IoT

    • Blockchain in CBDC

    • Blockchain in Retail Fashion & Luxury

    • Blockchain in sports and E-sports

    • Blockchain in Legal Industry

    • Social Impact of Blockchain

    • DeFi Use Cases in Blockchain

    • Quiz
  • 9

    Ethereum Overview - Week 2

    • About Ethereum

    • EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)

    • Ethereum Tokens

    • Test Networks of Ethereum

    • More about Ethereum
  • 10

    Ethereum Tokens

    • Ethereum Tokens
  • 11

    Deep Dive into Solidity

    • Introduction to Solidity

    • Solidity : Beginner to Intermediate

    • Units

    • Error Handling
  • 12

    Prerequisites

    • Remix IDE Walk-through

    • Setting up the MetaMask in your Browser
  • 13

    Getting started with the Smart Contract

    • What are Smart Contracts?

    • More about Smart Contracts

    • Introduction to tools

    • Smart Contract Vulnerabilities & Attacks
  • 14

    Testing of Smart Contracts

    • Testing of Smart Contracts

    • Testing tools and best practices
  • 15

    Project 1 - Sending Ethers from Parents to Kids

    • Understanding Aim and Writing Basic Smart Contract for creating a Token

    • Writing Efficient Smart Contract

    • Deploying Smart Contract
  • 16

    Project 2 - Lottery Application Based on Blockchain

    • Understanding Aim and Writing Basic Smart Contract

    • Adding More Functionalities, Deploying Smart Contract and Finding out Who is the Winner of the Lottery
  • 17

    Project 3: Basic Smart Contract with Front-end

    • Understanding Aim

    • Writing Smart Contract for Depositing and withdrawing Money (Back-End)

    • Deploying it on Remix with Metamask

    • Front End Development

    • Interacting Smart Contract with Front End
  • 18

    Project 4: Developing a Crowdfunding project

    • Objective of the Project, Writing the Smart Contract and Deploying it

    • Adding More Functionalities to the Smart Contract and Deploying it

    • Source Code
  • 19

    Project 5: Developing advance Smart Contract using Solidity

    • Introductions

    • Setting up the project

    • ERC-20 Tokens Part 1

    • ERC-20 Token Part 2

    • Dapp Smart contract

    • Deployment Script

    • Deployment on the local development network (Ganache)

    • Connecting Front-end with smart contracts

    • Setting up custom rpc and ganache account

    • Front End of Dapp

    • Issue Rewards and wrapping up the project

    • Source Code

  • 20

    Project 6 - Real-Estate Decentralized Application

    • Smart Contracts in Real Estate

    • Understanding Aim of the Project

    • Writing and Deploying Smart Contract

    • Front-End Development

    • Front End Styling and Testing the application

    • Quiz
  • 21

    Introduction to DeFi Technology - Week 3

    • Introduction to DeFi

    • DeFi Key Metrics
  • 22

    DeFi: Use-Cases

    • Stablecoins

    • Lending and Borrowing

    • Trading on DEXes and Liquidity

    • Synthetic Assets (Derivatives)

    • Prediction Markets

    • Staking

    • Asset Management and Wallets

    • Insurance and Risk Hedging

    • Oracles
  • 23

    Risks and Challenges

    • Risks
  • 24

    Understanding DAOs

    • A history of “The DAO” hack

    • Introduction to DAO

    • DAO membership

    • DAO - Advantages and disadvantages
  • 25

    DAO Governance

    • DAO Tension Triangle

    • Components of DAO Tension Triangle

    • DAO Voting Models

    • Common DAO Governance Challenges
  • 26

    Types of DAO

    • Protocol DAO

    • Collector DAO

    • Investment DAO : Meta Cartel

    • Investment Dao : The LAO

    • Media DAO

    • Social DAO

    • Grants DAO

    • Entertainment DAO

    • Philanthropy DAO
  • 27

    DAO Tokenomics

    • What is Tokenomics?

    • Tokenomics in DAO
  • 28

    Technology Layers for DAO

    • Technology Stacks around Ethereum

    • DAO Analyzer
  • 29

    Understanding the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)

    • Understanding the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)
  • 30

    NFT - Technology Stacks

    • Blockchain Platforms- Ethereum

    • Blockchain Platforms - Tezos

    • Blockchain Platforms - Flow

    • Blockchain Platforms- Cardano

    • Blockchain Platforms - Wax

    • Storage Platforms - IPFS

    • Storage Platforms - Filecoin

    • Protocols - ERC-721

    • Protocols - ERC-1155

    • Protocols - Other Protocols

    • Front-End Framework - ReactJS

    • Front-End Framework - AngularJS

    • Front-End Framework - VueJS
  • 31

    Operations on NFT

    • Walkthrough opensea

    • Opensea Metamask account setup

    • Creating a NFT

    • Buying NFT

    • Trading Selling (fixed price)

    • Trading auction
  • 32

    Walkthrough - NFTically Marketplace

    • Creating a Metamask wallet

    • Launching an NFT Store

    • Creating an NFT Collection

    • Creating & Minting an NFT

    • Buying an NFT
  • 33

    NFT : Use-Cases

    • Digital art

    • Fashion

    • Gaming and Sports

    • Virtual Worlds

    • Collectibles
  • 34

    NFT Risks & Challenges

    • NFT Challenges

    • Quiz
  • 35

    Project 1 - Building NFT Game - Week 4

    • Building the Ethereum Smart Contract

    • Deploying our NFT

    • Creating NFT Website

    • Interacting with our NFT Smart Contract

    • Improving the look of our dApp

    • Rendering All Tokens

    • Final Game Layout

    • Project 1 - Code

  • 36

    Project 2 - NFT Marketplace on Polygon with ReactJS

    • NFT and Marketplace Introduction

    • Project Prerequisites and Dependencies

    • Creating a NFT Token Contract

    • Creating NFT MarketPlace Contract

    • Writing Tests for Smart Contracts

    • Migrating contracts on development and Mumbai Test Network

    • Building Client-side Application

    • Building Client-side Application Part 2

    • Creating User Dashboard for NFT Marketplace Application

    • Deployment on Polygon and Application walkthrough
  • 37

    Project 3 - Building NFT Book Store

    • Introduction to Building NFT Book store

    • Implementing ERC1155 Constructor in the Smart Contract

    • Creating the Publish Function in the Smart Contract

    • Creating the Call Functions in the Smart Contract

    • Creating the purchase function in the smart contract

    • Deploying the smart contract

    • Interacting with the publish function

    • Interacting with the call functions

    • Interacting with the purchase function

    • Creating metadata

    • IPFS

    • Viewing NFT Token in OpenSea website

    • Project 3 - Code
  • 38

    Project 4 - End-To-End NFT Project

    • Introduction to Advanced Collectible NFT

    • Creating Ethereum smart contract

    • Creating Function to set token URI

    • Creating Python Script to deploy Smart Contract Part-1

    • Creating a Python Script to fund the Contract with Link Tokens

    • Creating Python Script to deploy Smart Contract Part-2

    • Interacting with Smart Contract

    • Creating Metadata Part-1

    • Creating Metadata Part-2

    • Viewing NFT Token in OpenSea website

    • Quiz

    • Project 4 - Code
  • 39

    Private/Permissioned Blockchain - Week 5

    • Permissioned Blockchain Overview & Comparison

    • Role of Permissioned Blockchains in the Systems Engineering Lifecycle

    • Architecture of Permissioned Blockchain

    • Examples of Permissioned Blockchain
  • 40

    Hyperledger - Blockchain Technologies for Business

    • The Linux Foundation

    • Hyperledger - Overview
  • 41

    Hyperledger - An Umbrella of Projects

    • The Hyperledger Ecosystem: DLT, Libraries and Tools

    • Hyperledger Project Life Cycle

    • Types of Consensus in Hyperledger
  • 42

    Hyperledger Projects under umbrella

    • Hyperledger Fabric

    • Hyperledger Sawtooth

    • Hyperledger Sawtooth - Features

    • Hyperledger Sawtooth - Architecture

    • Hyperledger Indy

    • Identity Management Overview

    • Identity Management - Hyperledger Indy

    • Hyperledger Besu

    • Hyperledger Besu - Characteristics

    • Hyperledger Aries

    • Identity Management Using Hyperledger Aries

    • Hyperledger Iroha

    • Hyperledger Iroha - Concepts and Architecture - Part 1

    • Hyperledger Iroha - Concepts and Architecture - Part 2

    • Hyperledger Transact

    • Hyperledger Transact: Architecture

    • Hyperledger Ursa

    • Libraries of Hyperledger Ursa & Usage in Blockchain Applications

    • Use Case: Decentralized Identity

    • Hyperledger Bevel

    • Hyperledger Bevel: Features

    • Hyperledger Cactus

    • Blockchain Interoperability

    • Hyperledger Caliper

    • Benchmarking Criteria in Hyperledger Caliper

    • Hyperledger Caliper - Architecture

    • Hyperledger Firefly

    • FireFly Usage Patterns

    • Firefly Features

    • Blockchain in food supply chain

    • Hyperledger Grid

    • Hyperledger Bevel

    • Hyperledger Bevel: Features
  • 43

    Hyperledger Fabric - detailed overview

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Model

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Component

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Architecture

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Transaction Flow

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Endorsement Flow

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Endorsement Policies

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Data Distribution Protocol

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Chaincode

    • Structure of Chaincode

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Certificate Authority

    • Hyperledger Fabric - Membership Service Provider
  • 44

    Operations on Hyperledger Fabric - Week 6

    • Prerequisites

    • Installing Prerequisites - Curl , Docker & Docker Compose , npm & Golang

    • Hyperledger Fabric detailed installation
  • 45

    Using a Fabric Test Network

    • Creating a Channel

    • Starting a Chaincode on the Channel

    • Bringing Up the Network

    • Interacting with the Network

    • Bringing down the Network
  • 46

    Deploying a Smart Contract to a Channel

    • Start the Network

    • Package the Smart Contract

    • Install the Chaincode Package

    • Approve a Chaincode Definition

    • Committing a Chaincode Definition

    • Invoking the Chaincode

    • Upgrading the Smart Contract

    • Clean Up
  • 47

    Hyperledger Besu - Hand On

    • Prerequisites

    • Installing Prerequisites

    • Hyperledger Besu detailed installation

    • Creating a Private Network with the Quickstart

    • Creating a Private Network

  • 48

    Hyperledger Sawtooth Concept and Architecture

    • Hyperledger Sawtooth - PBFT

    • Hyperledger Sawtooth - SDK
  • 49

    Hand on Hyperledger Sawtooth

    • Installing Sawtooth & Run Transaction Processor

    • Writing Basic Transaction Processor and Flow Overview

    • Writing basic Transaction Handler

    • Creating Signing Credentials

    • Submit Payload to Blockchain API

    • Create Blockchain BackEnd with Express.JS

    • Autentication and Instructions