Blockchain Architecture

Digital Money to Distributed Ledgers, Design Primitives: Protocols, Security, Consensus, Permissions, Privacy. Blockchain Architecture and Design: Basic crypto primitives: Hash, Signature, Hashchain to Blockchain, Bitcoin Basic, Basic consensus mechanisms.

Requirements for the consensus protocols, Proof of Work (PoW), Scalability aspects of Blockchain consensus protocols, distributed consensus, consensus in Bitcoin. Permissioned Blockchains: Design goals, Consensus protocols for Permissioned Blockchains

Decomposing the consensus process, Hyperledger fabric components. Chaincode Design and Implementation Hyperledger Fabric: Beyond Chaincode: fabric SDK and Front End, Hyperledger composer tool.

Blockchain in Financial Software and Systems (FSS): (i) Settlements, (ii) KYC, (iii) Capital markets, (iv) Insurance. Use case 2: Blockchain in trade/supply chain: (i) Provenance of goods, visibility, trade/supply chain finance, invoice management discounting, etc.

Blockchain for Government: (i) Digital identity, land records and other kinds of record keeping between government entities, (ii) public distribution system social welfare systems, Blockchain Cryptography, Privacy and Security on Blockchain