Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Online Certification Course + Guaranteed Internship

Learn the most important elements of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Ethereum; Build your very own two decentralised apps (DApps) in Blockchain Ecosystem

Created By: Abhinav Prateek and Niranjan Kumar

Course Duration : 2 Months (Lifetime Content Access)

₹25,000

471 Ratings | 3301 Enrollments

Includes

  • 24x7 Expert and Instructor Support

  • Lifetime Access to Course Content

  • Soft & Hard Copy of Certificate of Completion

What will I learn?

  • Various Blockchain Development Platforms

  • Complete Knowhow of Ethereum Platform

  • Building and launching Apps on Ethereum

  • Convert ideas in Blockchain into reality - with complete architectural understanding

Description

With the buzzwords regarding the cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin cash in the modern day technology, it is very necessary to understand the underlying architecture for all of this. The core that serves these cryuptocurrencies is blockchain. It is a decentralised, trustless and distributed ledger technology which got its popularity with Bitcoin global cryptocurrency platform. With ethereum, empowering reprogrammable money through smart contracts, blockchain systems are ready to take off to a whole new world all together.
The following statements show the growing importance of Blockchain in the industry: 

India’s Largest Bank SBI Goes Big on Blockchain
$1 Trillion Industry Being Brought Onto Blockchain

This course will be very helpful for all who are begining to learn this technology and who wants to understand
both sides of it - the system and its business.

Following will be the flow of the course.
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1 . Introduction to cryptocurrency.
2 . Getting to know about popular currencies like bitcoin, ether.
3 . Introduction to blockchain.
4 . Know about various popular use cases of blockchain and the businees associated with it.
5 . Introduction to ethreum platform.
6 . Set up a private blockchain system usign ethreum platform.
7 . Implement your own cryptocurrency and test sample transactions.
8 . Introduction to reprogrammable money and Smart contracts.
9 . Implement a sample smart contract onto the private blockchain system.
10. Carry out transactions using the smart contract.
11. Use cases of smart contracts for the business.

At the end of the course, you will have worked on setting up your cryptocurrecny and implemented a smart contract on your private blockchain sytem. You will be well equipped with all the tools required to implement blockchain technology according to any business requirement. 

Details related to Guaranteed Internship:

i) Why? - We believe acquiring a new skill without working on an actual project is wasteful spending of your time and resources. For your holistic learning experience, both course and internship should be combined.

ii) Who? - Internship is guaranteed by Eckovation to all Eckovation Alumni - those who complete atleast a course with us.

iii) Where? - Internship will be either with Eckovation or one of our partner organisations. You will be able to access internship.eckovation.com once you register for a course with us. Our Internship Portal will feature profiles of our alumni and also list internship opportunities by various organisations where alumni can apply.

iv) How many? - The internship will be related to the skill(s) which you've acquired from Eckovation platform.  In case of multiple skills, multiple internship opportunities may be provided.

v) Nature of internship? - The internships will be virtual in nature, i.e., you will be able to work on the internship project from home.

vi) When? - Internship will start only after your course completion in either Summer/December Vacation depending on which comes first. In-semester internships can also be considered on case-by-case basis.

vii) Certificate - A separate internship certificate will be provided at the end of internship period.

Students who enrolled for this course also showed interest in the following courses:

i) Virtual Reality App Development Course 

ii) Machine Learning Course 

Curriculum

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

  • Transformation of Trading Units

  • Hash Properties

  • Digital Signs

  • Storing Keys

  • Anonymity and Pseudonymity in Cryptocurrency

  • Centralised, Decentralised and Distributed networks

  • Public, Private and Consortium Types of Blockchain

  • Side Chains

  • Database vs Blockchain

  • Hands on:

  • Installing Node.js

  • Create Blockchain

  • Blockchain with Genesis Block

  • Validity of Blockchain

  • Proof of Work - mining in Blockchain

  • Add mining reward and mempool

  • Check balance of an Address

Blockchain Structure

  • Chain of Blocks

  • Distributed Blockchain

  • Block's Data

  • Block's Data Validation

  • Block's Component

  • Block's header vs Block's height

Blockchain Ecosystem

  • BlockchainTransaction Flow

  • Distributed Ledger

  • Proof of Byzantine Fault Tolerance

  • Main chain and Secondary chain

  • Orphans Blocks and Slate Blocks

  • What is Soft Fork?

  • What is Hard Fork?

  • Understanding Forks

  • Soft Fork Scenarios

  • Hard Fork Scenarios

Working of Blockchain Technology

  • Bitcoin P2P Architecture

  • Bitcoin Mining Architecture

  • Mechanism of Proof of Work (POW)

  • Block reward

  • Switch to Longest Blockchain

  • Can Miner Cheat?

  • Miner with more Hashing Power

  • Consensus - Mechanism of POW

  • Different type of Consensus

  • Difficulty Equation

  • Pool Mining

Bitcoin and Blockchain

  • Bitcoin and its history

  • Bitcoin transactions

  • How Bitcoin transactions work

  • What happens in case of invalid transactions

  • Parameters that invalidate the transactions

  • Scripting language in Bitcoin

  • Applications of Bitcoin script

  • Nodes and network of Bitcoin

  • Various roles you can play in Bitcoin ecosystem

  • What is Ether?

  • How to use Ethereum?

  • The Ethereum ecosystem,

  • DApps and DAOs

  • How Ethereum mining works?

  • Types & optimization of Ether

Future of Ethereum Solidity

  • Learning Soldity

  • Contract Structure

  • Function Declarations Testing with Remix

  • Redeploying Contracts

  • Behind the Scenes of Deployment

  • Gas and Transactions

  • Getting More Ether Smart Contracts with Solidity

  • Contract Deployment

  • Mist Wallet

Overview of Web3.JS

  • Installation & Running Ethereum Test RPC

  • Installing Web3.js

  • Changing Environment to Remix

  • Creating the UI

  • Using Web3.Js to connect and Interact with the Smart Contract

  • Introduction to web3.js

  • Importing web3.js

  • Connecting to nodes

  • The API structure

  • BigNumber.js

  • Unit conversion

  • Retrieving gas price, balance, and transaction details

  • Sending ether

  • Working with contracts

  • Retrieving and listening to contract events

Creating DApps

  • Overview of the different DApps Frameworks (Truffle)

  • Installation of Truffle ,

  • Test RPC using Node Package Manager

  • Setting up Metamask

  • Building Smart Contract (3-4 smart contracts)

Hyperledger

  • Introduction to Hyperledger

  • Hyperledger Architecture

Consensus

  • Consensus & its interaction with architectural layers

  • Application programming interface

  • Application model

  • Network topology

  • Exploring Hyperledger frameworks

  • Introduction to Hyperledger Fabric

  • Hyperledger Fabric model

  • Various ways to create Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain network

Hands on:

  • Creating and Deploying a business network on Hyperledger Composer

  • Playground Testing the business network definition

  • Transferring the commodity between the participants

Multichain

  • Introduction to MultiChain

  • Privacy & permissions in MultiChain

  • Mining in MultiChain

  • Multiple configurable Blockchains using MultiChain

  • Setting up a private Blockchain

  • Creating a Blockchain

  • Connecting to a Blockchain

  • Some commands in interactive mode

  • Raw Transactions

  • Data Streams

Hands on:

  • Creating private Blockchain Connecting to your Blockchain

  • Create a new asset and sending it between nodes

  • Mining between nodes

Prospects of Blockchain and Use Cases

  • How Blockchain is helping our world Blockchain transforming business and professions

  • Discussing practical use-cases of Blockchain

  • How can we bring Aadhaar Card system onto Blockchain?

  • How Blockchain can be used to remove corruption

  • Real case scenarios of Blockchain Blockchain in Banking System

  • Blockchain in Land Registry

  • Blockchain in Capital Market

  • Use cases for government Summary of the course

About Instructors

Abhinav Prateek

Wharton MBA, IIT Kanpur B.Tech

Abhinav is a serial entrepreneur, and holds an MBA from Wharton University. He is a graduate from IIT Kanpur.

He has been working with Blockchain technologies since last couple of years.

Abhinav acts as a curriculum advisor and guest faculty for this course.

Niranjan Kumar

BITS Pilani, 8y+ experience

A BITS Pilani graudate, with experience of over 8 years.

Over last couple of years, he has been associated with the top companies like Oracle, and eBay.

He is a proficient softwae architect, with deep experience in building highly scalable systems distributed online systems.

He has in-depth working knowledge of technologies like Machine Learning system, MEAN stack and blockchain and many more

FAQ

Is this course provided by Eckovation or IIT?

This course has been taught by IIT Alumni working with Eckovation. We do not have any collaboration with any IIT for this course.

What are the modes of payments available?

You can make the due payment via netbanking, debit cards, credit cards or online wallet.

Can cash payment be done for courses?

Cash payment facility is not available. Only online transactions are accepted.

When will the classes commence?

The course contains on-demand recorded lectures run on a batch basis. You can access all the videos as soon as you have completed your payment for the course.

The course is provided on a batch basis but access is for lifetime. What does this mean?

All the courses have mentors in it to help the students clear doubts and have smooth learning. The mentors will be only available in a course for the duration of the batch and not after the batch is over. The access to the videos and assignments will remain with the user indefinitely.

How do I enrol in the course?

You can directly click on the Enrol Now button given above to start the enrolment process.

What is the payment structure?

The payment for the course can be made through Credit Card, Debit Card, Net Banking. One can either complete the process with direct on-time payment or with equal monthly instalments.

What does seat booking or token amount mean?

Seat booking or token amount is a non-refundable amount to be paid to book your slot in the batch so that you can pay the total fee on later due date and not worry about missing the batch seat, which are on first come first serve basis.

What should I expect once the enrollment is complete?

Once the enrolment is done, you will receive an email from Eckovation stating all the directions of how to proceed further and what to expect before and during the course.

What if I do not want to continue the course after I have made my payment?

If you do not wish to continue the course you can ask for a refund within 7days of payment or commencement of the course, whichever is later. For Instalments, once the refund deadline is over, there won’t be any refunds, including future pending EMIs.

How much time do I have for completing my final project?

The course lectures will be for 8 months. You will have 2 months duration after that to submit your final project for evaluation.

How will the placement assistance work?

The placement assistance will be provided to the students who successfully complete the course. We will help you build your resume as per the course's job profile, take mock interview sessions and get you interviews in various companies.