Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies detailed syllabus for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science (AI&DS) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the AI&DS students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO BLOCKCHAIN
Blockchain- Public Ledgers, Blockchain as Public Ledgers – Block in a Blockchain, Transactions-The Chain and the Longest Chain – Permissioned Model of Blockchain, Cryptographic -Hash Function, Properties of a hash function-Hash pointer and Merkle tree
Unit II
BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY
A basic crypto currency, Creation of coins, Payments and double spending, FORTH – the precursor for Bitcoin scripting, Bitcoin Scripts , Bitcoin P2P Network, Transaction in Bitcoin Network, Block Mining, Block propagation and block relay
Unit III
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Unit IV
HYPERLEDGER FABRIC & ETHEREUM
Architecture of Hyperledger fabric v1.1- chain code- Ethereum: Ethereum network, EVM, Transaction fee, Mist Browser, Ether, Gas, Solidity.
Unit V
BLOCKCHAIN APPLICATIONS
Smart contracts, Truffle Design and issue- DApps- NFT. Blockchain Applications in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Smart Cities, Finance and Banking, Insurance,etc- Case Study.
Course Outcomes:
- Understand emerging abstract models for Blockchain Technology
- Identify major research challenges and technical gaps existing between theory and practice in the crypto currency domain.
- It provides conceptual understanding of the function of Blockchain as a method of securing distributed ledgers, how consensus on their contents is achieved, and the new applications that they enable.
- Apply hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum platform to implement the Block chain Application.
Practical
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Text Books:
- Bashir and Imran, Mastering Blockchain: Deeper insights into decentralization, cryptography, Bitcoin, and popular Blockchain frameworks, 2017.
- Andreas Antonopoulos, “Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies”, O’Reilly, 2014.
Reference Books:
- Daniel Drescher, “Blockchain Basics”, First Edition, Apress, 2017.
- Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, and Steven Goldfeder. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies: a comprehensive introduction. Princeton University Press, 2016.
- Melanie Swan, “Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy”, O’Reilly, 2015
- Ritesh Modi, “Solidity Programming Essentials: A Beginner’s Guide to Build Smart Contracts for Ethereum and Blockchain”, Packt Publishing
- Handbook of Research on Blockchain Technology, published by Elsevier Inc. ISBN: 9780128198162, 2020.
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