Brighter Connect’s Blockchain and Ethereum Certification Training 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.

Curriculum

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will be introduced to the Blockchain technology and learn about its working and properties.

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

Learning Objectives: 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
  • Blockchain Implementations
  • Blockchain Platforms

Hands-on

  • Working of a Blockchain

Learning Objectives: 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

Hands-on

  • Setting up bitcoin wallet
  • Creating a paper wallet
  • Bitcoin Transaction tracking

Learning Objectives: 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
  • Mining and Consensus
  • Assembling and selecting chains of blocks
  • Mining and the hashing race
  • Mining Pools

Hands-on

  • Installing Bitcoin Mining software
  • Mining Bitcoin on your PC

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn about Ethereum and how it uses the Blockchain technology to create a vast variety of decentralised 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

Hands-on

  • Setting up Metamask and MIST Wallet

Learning Objectives: 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

Hands-on

  • Remix browser
  • Coding experience on Solidity language

Learning Objectives: 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

Hands-on

  • Creating an interactive GUI for your smart contract using Web3.js And Truffle

Learning Objectives: 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

Hands-on

  • Connect the contract to an interactive GUI based on web3.js
  • Deploy the using Metamask
  • Deploying a DApp that runs on a test network

Learning Objectives: 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

Hands-on

  • Create and Deploy a Business Network on Hyperledger Composer Playground
  • Test the business network definition
  • Transfer the commodity between the participants

Learning Objectives: 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

Hands-on

  • Set up Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain using Hyperledger Composer locally
  • Develop a business network
  • Deploy and Test business networks

Learning Objectives: 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
  • Setting up a private Blockchain

Hands-on

  • Create a private Blockchain
  • Connect to your Blockchain
  • Create a new asset and sending it between nodes
  • Perform mining between nodes

Learning Objectives: 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?
Course Description

Brighter Connect’s Blockchain and Ethereum Certification Training provides you with an in-depth knowledge of the technology underlying various platforms such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger and MultiChain. As a beginner, you will be learning the importance of consensus in transactions, how transactions are stored on Blockchain, history of Bitcoin and how to use Bitcoin. You will be then taught about the Ethereum platform and how to develop custom smart contracts using Solidity and Remix IDE and deploy them on the test Blockchain network using Truffle, TestRPC and Web3.js. You will learn how to setup a private Blockchain using Multichain platform and cover the practical use cases of Blockchain in various industries.

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 ascertain you about how the Blockchain technology is shaping the future of world.

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

  • Software Developers
  • Project Managers
  • Solution Architects
  • Support Professionals
  • Product Managers

Development experience with an Object-oriented language is required. Also, basic knowledge of networking and Linux would be advantageous. Experience with JavaScript, 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
Project
Project #1: Property Transfer via Smart Contracts
Industry: Real Estate
Problem Statement: You need to build a smart contract which is capable of handling property transfer.

Project #2: Online Jewelry Application
Industry: e-commerce
Problem Statement: Develop an Online Jewelry application using solidity and any of the front-end Java scripting languages that you are aware of.

Project #3: KYC Prototype in Blockchain
Industry: Banking
Problem Statement: Know Your Customer (KYC) processes require banks to validate and verify primary documents as part of due diligence. Using all the concepts learned during the training program build a Blockchain based KYC prototype.
Your Online (Blockchain and Ethereum Certification Training) Package
Upon purchase, you will receive a password via the email you used to purchase the course.

You will then be able to login to our online learning portal with your email and password.

You will have access to the portal for 12 months to complete your course.

£549 £349 + VAT