8-Hour Blockchain Masterclass

New topics added: Aritificial Intelligence, stablecoins, DLTs & enterprise tokens

Come and join us in the most popular blockchain masterclass in NYC - Understand blockchain from the inside out directly from practitioners with proven track records and deep real-world experience. Network with industry professionals in an engaging, stimulating and immersive full day masterclass taught by a Columbia University professor, blockchain architect and global speaker.

Who Should Attend

If you are an executive, manager, developer, devops, dev lead, entrepreneur, cryptocurrency or blockchain enthusiast and need structured and deep technical understanding of blockchain then this course is all you need. This course is designed for non-technical people looking for a technical understanding of blockchain.

Minimum Learning Outcome

1. Bonus: How to launch a blockchain business or pivot your career into the blockchain space.
2. Understand the business and value proposition of blockchain, enterprise distributed ledger technology
3. Understand cryptography, hashing, public/private key, elliptic curve algorithms, cryptographic attack vectors
4. The technical trade-offs and architectures leading up to the blockchain within the world of distributed computing. Including concepts like a peer-to-peer network, Byzantine Fault Tolerance, Byzantine General's Problem, Multi-phased commits, cache synchronization
5. Open up the blockchain and peek under the hood: Blockchain data structures like blocks, chains, transactions, accounts, addresses - see how it all works and how it all fits together
6. Understand consensus algorithms, what they are and why we need them, including algorithms like Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, Delegated Proof of Stake, Proof of Elapsed Time, Proof of Authority, RAFT, Hashgraph, Notary services
7. Understanding the different blockchains and the varying value propositions and architectures: Bitcoin, Ethereum, HyperLedger Fabric, Hashgraph, EOS, NEO, NEM, Quorum, Corda, Ripple
8. Understanding the HyperLedger suite: Fabric, Burrow, Indy, Iroha, Sawtooth and how it all fits together
9. Understand blockchain topologies such as DAGs
10. Smart contracts: What they are, how to write one, Solidity examples, use cases, OPCODE, auditing and attack vectors
11. Understand the different asset tokenization strategies and how to create liquidity, fractionalization and distribution of tokenized assets.
12. Understand the future and impact of quantum computing, quantum-resistant crypto and algorithms
13. Become familiar with the future of blockchain & upcoming technologies: Casper, sharding, Ethereum Vyper, Homestead
14. Explore the most popular blockchain use cases: Supply chain, real estate, trading, HFT, Fintech
15. The mechanics of forks including hard, soft and software forks and how versioning is used to track it on the blockchain
16. Understand the core issues around decentralized ID and identity management
17. Learn how to launch an STO: Walk through an actually token offering on the blockchain and see how tokens are created, issued and tracked. Evaluate the technical architecture of an ICO, the process of issuing a coin, observing transactions on chain of ICO funds moving in and out of ICO wallets, real-life smart contract analysis
18. Learn about token economics and how to use game theory and monte carlo simulations to predict token prices, identify risks and price out a token offering
19. Bonus: Machine learning & Big data: Applying machine learning and big data concepts to blockchain

Certification

The Certificate of Completion will be issued to all participants who attend and complete the course. The certificate and proof of it will be stored on blockchain, i.e. your certificate of completion will be registered on the Bitcoin blockchain as proof of completion.

What is included

Every student will be provided with a printed and bound course book (approximately 500+ slides) and contact information for follow-up with the Professor for questions after the masterclass.

Please Note: Expect about 8+ hours of instruction time that often goes past 5.30pm, heavy engagement, Q&A and student interaction. The learning will be intense, fun, current and engaging. Our course material is actively revised, no two classes are identical.

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