Blockchain Development Courses

Beyond Cryptocurrency: Blockchain for the Real World

Syllabus: Introduction. Internet payments. Is this a job for blockchain?. What blockchain really gives us. Multiple tokens on a blockchain. Blockchain forks. Mining is scary for digital asset issuers. Must protect asset issuers from forks. Stella…

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Practical Blockchain Applications - Steven Pu

Syllabus: Introduction. The upstart & speaker. What to expect from today's talk. What is blockchain. Some key implications on applications. No veracity guarantees in the real world. Example: track responsibility, not truth. Example: hide the key.…

• YouTube
• 1-2 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design (Spring 2018)

5 reviews

This course looks at the design of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and how they function in practice, focusing on cryptography, game theory, and network architecture.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 25 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

The Blockchain System

27 ratings at Coursera

Learn how the blockchain authenticates transactions and distributes data to peers — nodes connected to the network. This course shows you how multiple versions of a blockchain are reconciled into one, discusses blockchain limitations, and delves into org…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Merkle Tree and Cryptocurrencies

23 ratings at Coursera

Apply what you have learned about cryptography and hashing in previous blockchain to the Merkle Tree, which underlies the process of adding new blocks — representing new transactions — to the blockchain. This course also introduces the concepts of proof…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Blockchain Business Models

332 ratings at Coursera

Blockchain is an emerging and highly disruptive technology that is poorly understood. In this course you will learn what blockchain is and how it can create value by tokenization in cryptocurrencies and in many other practical applications. The applicati…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

MIT MAS.S62 Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design, Spring 2018

Bitcoin and other cryptographic currencies have gained attention over the years as the systems continue to evolve. This course looks at the design of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and how they function in practice, focusing on cryptography, game the…

• YouTube
• 25 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

University at Buffalo;  SUNY

Blockchain Basics

7179 ratings at Coursera

This first course of the Blockchain specialization provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain technology – by initially exploring the Bitcoin protocol followed by the Ethereum protocol – to lay the foundation necessary for developi…

• Coursera
• 16 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University at Buffalo;  SUNY

Smart Contracts

2178 ratings at Coursera

This second course of the Blockchain specialization will help you design, code, deploy and execute a smart contract – the computational element of the blockchain technology. Smart contracts allow for implementing user-defined operations of arbitrary comp…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University at Buffalo;  SUNY

Decentralized Applications (Dapps)

1114 ratings at Coursera

This third course of the Blockchain specialization prepares you to design and develop end-to-end decentralized applications (Dapps) – which provide anyone with access to the blockchain’s features and services. You will use Truffle IDE, smart contracts, a…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University at Buffalo;  SUNY

Blockchain Platforms

993 ratings at Coursera

This fourth course of the Blockchain specialization provides learners with an understanding of the broader blockchain ecosystem. Learners are introduced to other blockchain platforms, details of two decentralized application use cases, and challenges suc…

• Coursera
• 16 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The University of Sydney

Blockchain Scalability and its Foundations in Distributed Systems

73 ratings at Coursera

Blockchain promises to disrupt industries once it will be efficient at large scale. In this course, you will learn how to make blockchain scale. You will learn about the foundational problem of distributed computing, consensus, that is key to create blo…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

ConsenSys Academy

Blockchain: Foundations and Use Cases

807 ratings at Coursera

This course is the definitive introduction to blockchain for both the developer and non-developer audience. Beyond the technology, this course will introduce you to some of the philosophy behind decentralization and why there is so much excitement around…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

INSEAD

Blockchain Opportunity Analysis

186 ratings at Coursera

In this fourth and final course of the specialization, you will synthesize your learning into a project deliverable called a Blockchain Opportunity Analysis. The goals of this course are twofold: One, it’s for you to identify a specific need or problem…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 6th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Blockchain 360: A State of the Art for Professionals

323 ratings at Coursera

If you are an information systems manager and want to know a Blockchain state of the art, this course is for you. Business is currently dealing intensively with digitization. Blockchain has a major impact on the design and implementation of digital busin…

• Coursera
• 3-4 hours worth of material, 1 week long
• 16th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)