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Lectures

	Topic	Lecturer	Study & Teaching Materials
Lec 1 & 2	Bitcoin		Bitcoin Handout, Bitcoin Slides The Bitcoin handout is the recommended study material for the first two lectures. The slides are supplementary.
Lec 3-4	Cryptocurrencies & major blockchain platforms		Digital currencies (why do they exist), Most popular cryptocurrencies & blockchain platforms (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Avalanche, etc.) , Smart contracts, Decentralized applications, Economy of decentralized application, Cryptocurrency trading, largest exchanges, ICOs, Governance, Current blockchain technology maturity, limitations and future development.
Lec 5-6	Systems design, hands-on development	Jakub Růžička	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tyMP7ZfbcCbQftDQyRytfRIOS55YstAw/view The "System Design and Hands-On Development" lecture features an interactive discussion on when blockchain is a good or bad fit, demonstrated on widely used products and services. It covers design decisions around architecture of blockchain-based software, most used tools, programming languages (incl. platform-specific ones) and high-level libraries. It also includes code walkthroughs / explanations of simple scripts. The two follow up labs give a short introduction to system design and practical security (a bridge to the next lecture) and let students practice their skills on mock projects, under the guidance of the course lecturers. They are concluded with presentations of the created design docs to the whole study group.
Lec 7-8	Smart contracts security	Josef Gattermayer	Smart contracts security Most notable hacks (The DAO hack, Parity hack, Poly Network, GSN vulnerability), attack vectors, threat modelling, platform governance, best practices.
Lec 9-10	Case Studies	Dušan Kovačič	Finance, Enterprise networks, Legal (smart contracts, ownership and property rights, insurance etc.), Public service (digital identity, voting, certificates etc.), Other use-cases - supply chain, healthcare, IoT, lotteries, DNS etc., Startup case studies (e.g. https://builtin.com/blockchain/blockchain-applications, Loyyal, Nexxo, Brave, Binance etc.), Corporate case studies (Spotify, PayPal, Siemens, DHL, IBM, E&Y, Deloitte, Accenture etc.), Countries case studies (e.g. Estonia, Switzerland, Malta, Singapore, China, Australia), Most notable blockchain apps (Uniswap, Compound, Aave, etc.)
Lec 11-12	Reserve	Guest speaker	Tba

Topic

Lecturer

Study & Teaching Materials

Lec 1 & 2

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Handout, Bitcoin Slides

The Bitcoin handout is the recommended study material for the first two lectures. The slides are supplementary.

Lec 3-4

Cryptocurrencies & major blockchain platforms

Digital currencies (why do they exist), Most popular cryptocurrencies & blockchain platforms (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Avalanche, etc.) , Smart contracts, Decentralized applications, Economy of decentralized application, Cryptocurrency trading, largest exchanges, ICOs, Governance, Current blockchain technology maturity, limitations and future development.

Lec 5-6

Systems design, hands-on development

Jakub Růžička

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tyMP7ZfbcCbQftDQyRytfRIOS55YstAw/view

The "System Design and Hands-On Development" lecture features an interactive discussion on when blockchain is a good or bad fit, demonstrated on widely used products and services. It covers design decisions around architecture of blockchain-based software, most used tools, programming languages (incl. platform-specific ones) and high-level libraries. It also includes code walkthroughs / explanations of simple scripts. The two follow up labs give a short introduction to system design and practical security (a bridge to the next lecture) and let students practice their skills on mock projects, under the guidance of the course lecturers. They are concluded with presentations of the created design docs to the whole study group.

Lec 7-8

Smart contracts security

Josef Gattermayer

Smart contracts security

Most notable hacks (The DAO hack, Parity hack, Poly Network, GSN vulnerability), attack vectors, threat modelling, platform governance, best practices.

Lec 9-10

Case Studies

Dušan Kovačič

Finance, Enterprise networks, Legal (smart contracts, ownership and property rights, insurance etc.), Public service (digital identity, voting, certificates etc.), Other use-cases - supply chain, healthcare, IoT, lotteries, DNS etc., Startup case studies (e.g. https://builtin.com/blockchain/blockchain-applications, Loyyal, Nexxo, Brave, Binance etc.), Corporate case studies (Spotify, PayPal, Siemens, DHL, IBM, E&Y, Deloitte, Accenture etc.), Countries case studies (e.g. Estonia, Switzerland, Malta, Singapore, China, Australia), Most notable blockchain apps (Uniswap, Compound, Aave, etc.)

Lec 11-12

Reserve

Guest speaker

Tba