Blockchain

Course number: CGIB40

The Blockchain and Ethereum Certification course is designed to introduce you to the concepts of Blockchain and its platforms – Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger and Multichain. The course provides an overview of the structure and mechanism of Blockchain. You will learn about the Ethereum ecosystem, how smart contracts are developed using Solidity, and how to deploy a business network using Hyperledger Compose.

What you will learn:

Blockchain and Ethereum Certification Training provides you developer-level insights into the Blockchain technology and its platforms. The course will provide an overview of the structure and mechanism of Blockchain. You will be able to understand how Bitcoin transactions are stored and mined on a Blockchain. You will be able to develop your private Blockchain and deploy smart contracts on Ethereum. You will also learn how to develop and test your business network on Hyperledger Composer, and how to setup a private Blockchain on Multichain platform. Detailed analysis of use-cases will teach you about how the Blockchain technology is shaping the future of world.

Prerequisites

Development experience with an Object-oriented language is required.
Basic knowledge of networking and Linux would be advantageous.
Experience with JavaScript and git will be beneficial.
However, you will be provided with fundamentals of the following self-paced courses as complimentary: Linux Fundamentals; Node.js Fundamentals; JavaScript Training

Target Audience

The course is ideal for anyone with a technical background including:

Software Developers
Project Managers
Solution Architects
Support Professionals
Product Managers

Course Content

Introduction to Blockchain

Topics:

How does our current financial system work?
What can be the possible solution?
What is a distributed system?
What is Blockchain?
How does a Blockchain work?
Properties of Blockchain
Evolution of Blockchain

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain

In this module, you will learn about the concept of cryptocurrencies, predominantly Bitcoin, and Blockchain structure along with cryptography and consensus mechanisms.

Topics:

Anonymity and Pseudonymity in Cryptocurrency Programmable Money
What is inside a block?
Hash Functions and Merkle Trees
Components of Blockchain Ecosystem
Cryptography and Consensus Algorithms
Types of Blockchain
Side Chains: another type of Blockchain
Implementations
Blockchain Platforms

Bitcoin Platform

In this module, you will learn about Bitcoin mechanisms and how the Bitcoin network works. You will understand why transactions with Bitcoins are secure and efficient.

Topics:

What is Bitcoin?
Why use Bitcoins?
Bitcoin Trading: Buying, selling and storing Bitcoins
Bitcoin Ecosystem
Structure of a Bitcoin Transaction
Scripting language in Bitcoin
Applications of Bitcoin script
Nodes in a Bitcoin Network

Bitcoin Mining

In this module, you will learn how Bitcoin mining works and how blocks are added in the Blockchain. You will also be taught how to mine Bitcoin from your own personal computer.

Topics:

Bitcoin Economics
What is Bitcoin Mining?
Types of Mining and Consensus
Assembling and selecting chains of blocks
Mining and the hashing race
Mining Pools

Introduction to Ethereum

In this module, you will learn about Ethereum and how it uses the Blockchain technology to create a vast variety of decentralized applications with the help of Smart Contracts.

Topics:

What is Ethereum?
Introducing Smart Contracts
Cryptocurrency in Ethereum
Mining in Ethereum
Consensus Mechanism in Ethereum
Platform Functions used in Ethereum
Technologies that support Ethereum
Ethereum Programming Language
Components for development of Ethereum
DApps Editors and tools
Frontend Development
Ethereum Test Networks
ERC Tokens

Basic Solidity

In this module, you will learn to develop your own Smart Contracts using Solidity on the Remix IDE.

Topics:

Introducing Solidity
Sample Code
Layout of Source File
Structure of a Contract
State Variables
Functions Types
Reference Types
Units
Special Variables and Functions
Expressions and Control Structures
Function Calls
Error Handling
Visibility for Functions and State Variables

Advanced Solidity

In this module, you will learn the advanced concepts of solidity including importing libraries, modifiers, and event handling. Also, you will learn how to incorporate a front-end GUI to your solidity contracts using Truffle and web3.js.

Topics:

State
Modifiers
Inheritance
Constructors
Libraries
Importing Smart Contracts
Events and Logging
Error Handling and Exceptions
Common Pitfalls
Gas Limit and Loops
Sending and Receiving
Ether Recommendations
Contract ABI
Setting up the development environment

Developing a DApp Using Truffle

In this module, you will learn how to develop a DApp service using concepts of Solidity and deploy it on a local test Blockchain, Ganache.

Topics:

Developing a DApp
Compile and Deploy the Smart Contract
Publish the DApp
Connecting to DApp
Ganache Output for Transaction Migration

Hyperledger

In this module, you will learn about Hyperledger project to develop an enterprise-grade and open-source distributed ledger framework. You will be taught about the Hyperledger architecture, its consensus mechanism, and about four major Hyperledger frameworks.

Topics:

Introduction to Hyperledger
Hyperledger architecture
Consensus
Hyperledger API and Application Model
Network Topology
Exploring Hyperledger frameworks
Business Network Deployment on Hyperledger Composer Playground

Setting up Development Environment Using Hyperledger Composer

In this module, you will learn about Hyperledger Fabric and how to develop business networks using Hyperledger Composer. Also, you will be deploying and testing your business network.

Topics:

Setting up Development Environment using Composer
Developing business networks
Testing business networks
Introduction to Hyperledger Fabric
Hyperledger Fabric Model
Various ways to create Hyperledger Fabric
Blockchain Network

Create and Deploy Your Private Blockchain On Multichain

In this module, you will learn about Multichain platform. You will be able to setup your private Blockchain environment. Also, you will be able to customize your Blockchain parameters as per your requirements.

Topics:

What Is Multichain?
Privacy and Permissions in Multichain
Mining in Multichain
Multiple configurable Blockchains using Multichain
Setting up a Private Blockchain

Prospects of Blockchain

In this module, you will understand how Blockchain is essentially shaping the future economics. Discussions on various use cases of Blockchain will clear the missing segment of the picture.

Topics:

Blockchain prospering our world
Blockchain transforming business and professionalism
Discussing practical use-cases of Blockchain
Real case scenarios of Blockchain
How governments around the world are using Blockchain

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