Blockchain Training Courses

Project Bletchley, spearheaded by Microsoft, is a project that aims to provide Blockchain-as-a-Service in order to make it easier for businesses to implement blockchain technology without sacrificing high-level enterprise stability and security.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the core components and fundamentals of Project Bletchley.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand the fundamentals of Project Bletchley and enterprise smart contracts
- Learn how to implement a new enterprise type contract through Project Bletchley

Audience

- Developers
- IT Personnel
- Managers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Interledger is an open protocol for connecting different payment networks.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Interledger to enable payments and micropayments across different blockchains and ledgers.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand Interledger's architecture and networking layers
- Route secure payments through untrusted connectors
- Connect blockchains, send multi-currency micropayments, and upgrade bank-to-bank transfers

Audience

- Technical persons interesting in transacting across different payment systems

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and hands-on practice

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are organizations that run autonomously and make decentralized growth decisions through the use of blockchain technology.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how DAOs work and decide whether using a DAO will benefit their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand the basics of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
- Know how DAOs work and operate
- Explore current and potential use cases of DAOs
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages (risk) of using a DAO

Audience

- Investors
- Entrepreneurs

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Monax (previously known as Eris) is an application platform that sits in the between a blockchain client and the operating system. It serves as an application layer for distributed ledger and blockchain applications.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to build a smart contract blockchain application with Monax.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Develop and deploy a distributed application using blockchain and smart contract technology.
- Understand design and functionality of 'smart contracts' and how to create one.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based platform that enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of the Ethereum platform and blockchain programming, as well as strategies for writing, deploying and managing their own distributed applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Create a Smart Contract based on Ethereum
- Create an Ethereum currency
- Optimize development with Truffle Framework
- Release their first Dapp based into the "token-economy"
- Launch and crowdfund a blockchain project

Audience

- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This course has been designed for developers and project managers who would like to experiment with Blockchain in their products and projects. The course gives a basic know how on how to set up your own blockchain application using Hyperledger Fabric.

This course has been designed for developers and project managers who would like to experiment with Blockchain in their products and projects. The course gives a basic know how on how to set up your own blockchain network using IBM Bluemix.

Please note: Owing to limited learning options and everything already being pre-setup on Bluemix, it is used only for college students and in corporate cases we will be using AWS instance or virtual machines to setup the complete hyperledger fabric setup from scratch so as to accelerate the practical and handson knowledge absorption of the particpants.

Indy is a Hyperledger project for creating decentralized identity systems. It includes tools, libraries and reusable components for creating digital identities rooted in blockchains or other distributed ledgers.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to create an Indy-based decentralized identity system.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Create and manage decentralized, self-sovereign identities using distributed ledgers.
- Enable interoperability of digital identities across domains, applications, and silos.
- Understand key concepts such as user-controlled exchange, revocation, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), off-ledger agents, data minimization, etc.
- Use Indy to enable identity owners to independently control their personal data and relationships.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Internet of Things (IoT) is a network infrastructure that connects physical objects and software applications wirelessly, allowing them to communicate with each other and exchange data via network communications, cloud computing, and data capture.

Blockchain is a decentralized database system which stores data in ledgers distributed across many nodes.

Using blockchain technology with IoT allows accessibility and supply of IoT data without the need for central control. This integration opens up a suite of new possibilities and multiple benefits for business organizations.

In this instructor-led, live training (remote), participants will learn how blockchain and IoT can work together as they step through a series of hands-on live-lab exercises.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand how blockchain and IoT can work together to provide solutions for their organization
- Explore various tools and resources to implement a blockchain-based IoT solution for their organization

Audience

- Developers
- Managers

Format of the Course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice.

Note

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Corda is an open-source, financial-grade distributed ledger that operates in strict privacy in an open, global network. It is aimed at large, financial institutions and is designed to handle complex transactions, while restricting access to transaction data. Although it is similar to a blockchain, it is not a blockchain.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the underlying technologies behind Corda as they build and deploy a Corda based application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Use Corda to build, deploy, and run a distributed ledger and financial application.
- Use Corda to record, manage and automate legal agreements between business partners.
- Implement privacy and scalability in decentralised applications.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Hyperledger Iroha is a business blockchain framework inspired by Hyperledger Fabric. It integrates well into infrastructural projects and features clean, domain-driven C++ design and an emphasis on mobile application development. It provides a high degree of network fault tolerance based on the chain-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus algorithm (Sumeragi).

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to create a mobile blockchain-based application using Iroha.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Use Iroha to build, deploy, and run a simple distributed ledger and demo mobile application.
- Create and manage custom complex assets (currencies, indivisible rights, serial numbers, patents, etc.).
- Manage user accounts, verify user permissions, etc.
- Validate business rules for transactions and queries in the system.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

MultiChain is an open-source platform for building private blockchain applications. It aims to remove perceived problems associated with bitcoin by limitting the visibility of the ledger and allowing institutions to set controls on transactions as well as forego distributed mining.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use MultiChain to set up a private blockchain and develop a sample application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Install and use the tools needed for MultiChain development.
- Create, connect, configure and use their own private Blockchain.
- Create an initial node, start the genesis block, and enable private mining using other nodes in the network.
- Transact native assets, enable and control mining, and install MultiChain Explorer and webDemo.
- Use API commands to control MultiChain and handle error codes and messages.
- Customize the runtime parameters that affect the behavior of individual nodes.
- Create a consensual governance model for the blockchain.
- Install and use popular bitcoin wallets and libraries for connecting to a MultiChain blockchain.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

- This course can be offered on AWS, Microsoft Azure or other services. To request a specific environment, please contact us to arrange.

Smart Contracts are used to encode and encapsulate the rules for automatically initiating and processing transactions on the Blockchain.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) with Hyperledger Composer to implement the business logic of a Smart Contract using business rules.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Use ODM's rule engine together with Blockchain to "unbury" rules from the codebase of a Blockchain application
- Set up a system to allow specialist such as accountants, auditors, lawyers, and analysts to define the rules of exchange for themselves
- Use Decision Center as a platform to collaboratively govern rules
- Use ODM's rule engine to update, test and deploy rules without touching the code of the Smart Contract
- Deploy the IBM ODM Rule Execution Server
- Integrate IBM ODM with Hyperledger Composer running on Hyperledger Fabric

Audience

- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Ripple (formerly known as OpenCoin) is an open-source, real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), currency exchange and remittance network. It is based on a shared, public database (ledger) that allows for distributed payments, exchanges and remittances. Ripple is used by companies such as UniCredit, UBS and Santander.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Ripple to securely conduct global financial transactions that are instant and free of chargebacks.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand the concepts behind cryptographically signed transactions, fiat currencies, and Ripple's internal currency (XRP).
- Integrate the Ripple protocol into existing systems and allow customers to access the service.
- Conduct cross-border payments with customers, corporations, and other banks.
- Use tokens to represent fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodity, frequent flier miles, mobile minutes and more.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Ripple (formerly known as OpenCoin) is an open-source, real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), currency exchange and remittance network. It is based on a shared, public database (ledger) that allows for distributed payments, exchanges and remittances. Ripple is used by companies such as UniCredit, UBS and Santander.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to develop a service for conducting transactions on top of the Ripple payment system.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand the concepts behind cryptographically signed transactions, fiat currencies, and Ripple's internal currency (XRP).
- Integrate the Ripple protocol into existing systems and access it with third party services
- Use tokens to represent fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodity, frequent flier miles, mobile minutes and more.

Audience

- Developers
- Technical persons in the financial industry

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Ripple (formerly known as OpenCoin) is an open-source, real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), currency exchange and remittance network. It is based on a shared, public database (ledger) that allows for distributed payments, exchanges and remittances. Ripple is used by companies such as UniCredit, UBS and Santander.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how Ripple works by examining real-world case studies and stepping through a set of in-class live transactions on the Blockchain.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand how Ripple integrates into existing payment systems
- Understand the concepts behind cryptographically signed transactions, fiat currencies, and Ripple's internal currency (XRP).
- Use Ripple as an alternative remittance option
- Conduct cross-border payments with retail customers, corporations, and other banks
- Use tokens to represent fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodity, frequent flier miles, mobile minutes and more.

Audience

- Financial managers
- Bank managers
- Credit card company representatives

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Hyperledger Sawtooth is a highly modular, open-source platform for building, deploying, and running distributed ledgers. It uses a consensus mechanism known as "Proof of Elapsed Time," a lottery-design consensus protocol that builds on trusted execution environments. Sawtooth is contributed by Intel.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to create blockchain application using Sawtooth.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Use Sawtooth to build, deploy, and run enterprise distributed ledgers.
- Understand key concepts such as transaction-based updates, shared state, and consensus algorithms.
- Use the Sawtooth blockchain network for applications ranging from international remittance, insurance claim processing, supply chain management and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Dapp refers to a decentralized application on the blockchain. They are based on a token-economy and utilize a block chain to incentivize development and adoption. Bitcoin was the first Dapp ever released; other examples include Ethereum-based Dapps such as Golem, Augur and Melonport.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to assess, plan and release their own Dapp into the market.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand the characteristics of a Dapp (open source, decentralized, incentivized.)
- Understand the characteristics of successful Dapp launches.
- Kickstart, launch and manage a Dapp project.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Hyperledger Composer is a set of collaboration tools for building blockchain business networks. Composer is built with JavaScript and leverages node.js, npm, CLI and popular editors.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to build Blockchain business network and demo application using Composer.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Simplify the creation of smart contracts and blockchain applications.
- Test devops processes by developing in a protected, risk-free environment before deploying.
- Use Composer's purpose-built modeling language together with JavaScript to script transactions.
- Implement a development process that aligns business requirements with development.
- Develop production-ready browser-based blockchain applications in hours instead of weeks.
- Integrate a blockchain network with existing systems.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This course explains what a blockchain is, where it is currently in use and where it can be potentially used.

Blockchain is a decentralized database system which stores data in ledgers distributed across many nodes.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of blockchain and its applications in the healthcare industry.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand blockchain, its foundations, and how it works
- Learn how blockchain can be applied to issues in the healthcare industry
- Explore the different blockchain platforms available for healthcare

Audience

- Managers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Blockchain is a decentralized database system which stores data in ledgers distributed across many nodes.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of blockchain and its applications in the banking industry.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand blockchain, its foundations, and how it works
- Learn how blockchain can be applied to issues in the banking industry
- Explore the different blockchain platforms available for banking

Audience

- Managers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This course has been designed for developers and project managers who would like to experiment with Blockchain in their products and projects. The course gives a basic know how on how to set up your private blockchain environment and throws light on some of the existing frameworks.

Blockchain is a decentralized database system which stores data in ledgers distributed across many nodes. Coinbase is a blockchain platform used to transact with digital currencies such as bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to develop blockchain applications with Coinbase.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand blockchain, its foundations, and how it works
- Explore the products and features of Coinbase for developers
- Start building their own Blockchain apps with the Coinbase API

Audience

- Developers
- IT Professionals

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This course has been designed for developers and project managers who would like to experiment with Blockchain in their products and projects. The course gives a basic know how on how to set up your private blockchain environment and throws light on some of the existing frameworks. By the end, this course gives a basic know how on how to setup your own blockchain application using Hyperledger Fabric.

Decentralized applications or dApps are applications that run on the blockchain.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to develop decentralized applications (dApps) using Microsoft Visual Studio as they build dApps using two methods of integration with Visual Studio.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand the fundamentals of developing decentralized applications (dApps)
- Understand the differences between typical ASP.NET applications and dApps
- Learn how to work with smart contracts
- Build dApps using Microsoft Visual Studio, BlockApps, and Solidity
- Build dApps using Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, and BlockApps STRATO

Audience

- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Target Audience

- Investors and entrepreneurs
- Managers and Engineers whose company is venturing into finance/commerce space
- Business Analysts & Investors
- Individuals interested in the in-depth concepts of Bitcoin

Target Audience

- Managers and Engineers whose company is venturing into finance/commerce space
- Business Analysts & Investors

Blockchain is a decentralized database system which stores data in ledgers distributed across many nodes. Stellar is an open-source distributed, hybrid blockchain infrastructure for payments.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to develop blockchain applications with Stellar.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand blockchain, its foundations, and how it works
- Understand Stellar and how it works
- Integrate Stellar into their own infrastructure
- Set Stellar up for blockchain development
- Understand advanced concepts and use reference applications to start building with Stellar

Audience

- Developers
- IT Professionals

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Codius is an open hosting protocol for uploading high-security, financial applications.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to set up a Codius peer-to-peer network host.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand and work with Codius's major components (Sandbox, Engine, Host, and CLI)
- Deploy Codius on a physical server over cloud hosting
- Understand how Codius implements smart contracts and ensures code integrity
- Implement Bitcoin, Ripple, and other billing modules as application payment methods

Audience

- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice