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Block Chain Technologies (AL-802 (A)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Introduction

  • Overview of Block chain
  • Public Ledgers
  • Bitcoin
  • Smart Contracts
  • Block in a Block chain
  • Transactions
  • Distributed Consensus
  • Public vs Private Block chain
  • Understanding Cryptocurrency to Block chain
  • Permissioned Model of Block chain
  • Overview of Security aspects of Block chain
  • Basic Crypto Primitives: Cryptographic Hash Function
  • Properties of a hash function
  • Hash pointer and Merkle tree
  • Digital Signature
  • Public Key Cryptography
  • A basic cryptocurrency
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Unit 2

Understanding Block chain with Crypto currency

  • Bitcoin and Block chain: Creation of coins
  • Payments and double spending
  • Bitcoin Scripts
  • Bitcoin P2P Network
  • Transaction in Bitcoin Network
  • Block Mining
  • Block propagation and block relay
  • Working with Consensus in Bitcoin: Distributed consensus in open environments
  • Consensus in a Bitcoin network
  • Proof of Work (PoW) - basic introduction
  • HashCash PoW
  • Bitcoin PoW
  • Attacks on PoW and the monopoly problem
  • Proof of Stake
  • Proof of Burn and Proof of Elapsed Time
  • The life of a Bitcoin Miner
  • Mining Difficulty
  • Mining Pool
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Unit 3

Understanding Block chain for Enterprises

  • Permissioned Block chain: Permissioned model and use cases
  • Design issues for Permissioned block chains
  • Execute contracts
  • State machine replication
  • Overview of Consensus models for permissioned block chain
  • Distributed consensus in closed environment
  • Paxos
  • RAFT Consensus
  • Byzantine general problem
  • Byzantine fault tolerant system
  • Lamport-Shostak-Pease BFT Algorithm
  • BFT over Asynchronous systems
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Unit 4

Enterprise application of Block chain

  • Cross border payments
  • Know Your Customer (KYC)
  • Food Security
  • Mortgage over Block chain
  • Block chain enabled Trade
  • We Trade - Trade Finance Network
  • Supply Chain Financing
  • Identity on Block chain
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Unit 5

Block chain application development

  • Hyperledger Fabric - Architecture
  • Identities and Policies
  • Membership and Access Control
  • Channels
  • Transaction Validation
  • Writing smart contract using Hyperledger Fabric
  • Writing smart contract using Ethereum
  • Overview of Ripple and Corda

Reference Books

  • Block Chain: Blueprint for a New Economy
  • Block Chain: The Block Chain for Beginners- Guide to Block chain Technology and Leveraging Block Chain Programming
  • Block Chain Basics
  • Block Chain and Crypto Currencies
  • Mastering Block Chain: Distributed Ledger Technology, Decentralization and Smart Contracts Explained
  • Solidity Programming Essentials: A Beginner's Guide to Build Smart Contracts for Ethereum and Block Chain
  • Hands-On Block Chain with Hyperledger: Building Decentralized Applications with Hyperledger Fabric and Composer
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