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Cognitive Class

Blockchain Essentials

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Overview

Blockchain is an emerging technology that can radically improve banking, supply chain, and other transaction networks and can create new opportunities for innovation. Businesses contain many examples of networks of individuals and organizations that collaborate to create value and wealth. These networks work together in markets that exchange assets in the form of goods and services between the participants.Blockchain technology provides the basis for a dynamic shared ledger that can be applied to save time when recording transactions between parties, remove costs associated with intermediaries, and reduce risks of fraud and tampering. The video lectures and lab in this course help you learn about blockchain for business and explore key use cases that demonstrate how the technology adds value.

Syllabus

Course outline

Module 1 - Discover Blockchain
    • What is blockchain
    • The business backdrop
    • The problem area
    • Relation to bitcoin
    • Requirements for blockchain in a business environment
    • Requirements deep dive
Module 2 - Leverage blockchain benefits
    • Why blockchain is relevant for business
    • Consensus: shared reference data example
    • Provenance: supply chain example
    • Immutability: audit and compliance example
    • Finality: letter of credit example
    • Industry use cases
    • Customer adoption
Module 3 - Transform your business with blockchain
    • IBM and Hyperledger relationship: Blockchain for business
    • Hyperledger Composer
    • Public references
    • IBM engagement model
Demo - Blockchain asset transfer
    • Transfer assets in blockchain
    • Blockchain asset transfer demo
Lab - Transfer assets
    • Set up the Hyperledger Composer Playground
    • Transfer assets in a blockchain network
    • Explore editor views archive data

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