World Business StrategiesServing the Global Financial Community since 2000

MODULE ONE: Distributed Ledger Architecture

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 16th May
Week 1:  Introduction to Cryptography                                                   
  • Intro:                                                                   
    • About the course
    • About me
    • Schedule, rules and materials
  • Introduction to Cryptography                     
    • Hash Functions
    • Hash Pointers and data structure
    • Digital Signature
  • Simple Cryptocurrency     
    • Centralized currency model
    • Decentralized currency model
  • Bitcoin Consensus Mechanism
  • Bitcoin Mining                                                   
    • Incentives and Proof of work
    • Hash puzzles

Dmytro Pershyn:

Head of Faculty: DLT Certificate & Founder of Quantlife LTD

Juarez Barbosa:

Principal Developer Advocate / Blockchain Evangelist, Oracle EMEA

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 23rd May
Week 2:  Decentralization and Smart Contracts                                   
  • Previous lecture recap:
  • Possible attacks                                                 
    • Double spend
    • 51%
  • Bitcoin Economy
  • Bitcoin internal scripting mechanism
    • Turing completeness
    • Ethereum
    • Ethereum Virtual Machine
  • Smart Contracts
  • Decentralized applications                     

Amrit Kumar:

Cofounder and Head of Research, Zilliqa

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 30th May
Week 3:  Network Architecture                                                                   
  • Previous lecture recap
  • Further development 
    • Segregated Witness
    • Lightning network
    • Sharding
    • State channels
    • Block size
  • Consensus mechanisms: 
    • Proof of Work
    • Proof of Stake
    • Hybrid models
  • Network governance structures   
    • Community decision making
    • Code ownership
    • Development incentives
    • Validation incentives

Dmytro Pershyn:

Head of Faculty: DLT Certificate & Founder of Quantlife LTD

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 6th June
Week 4: Blockchain Architecture

Home Assignment: white paper analysis for every student

Dmytro Pershyn:

Head of Faculty: DLT Certificate & Founder of Quantlife LTD

MODULE TWO: DLT Domain Projects Review, Research and Classification

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 13th June
Week 5: DLT Domain Projects Overview and Research
  • Previous module recap
  • Module intro
  • Internet of value
  • Types of tokens: 
    • Currency token
    • Utility token
    • Security token
  • Project classification:    
    • Currency
    • Platform
    • Marketplace
    • Private Blockchains
    • Scalability/Interoperability
    • Stablecoin
  • Project examples from every class: 
    • Bitcoin/Litecoin/Monero
    • Ethereum/Zilliqa/EOS
    • 0x/Loopring
    • Hyperledger/Ripple
    • COSMOS/Interledger/Lightning Network
    • Tether/Stasis 

On Yavin:

Founder and CEO, Cointelligence

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 20th June
Week 6:  DLT Projects Business Models                                                     
  • Previous lecture recap:
  • Public blockchain
  • Private blockchain
  • Blockchain as a Service
  • Marketplaces 
    • Centralized
    • Decentralized
    • Hybrid
  • Distributed Ledger as an enterprise solution
    • Finance
    • Trade
    • Logistics
    • Property
    • LegalTech
    • GovTech 

Dmytro Pershyn:

Head of Faculty: DLT Certificate & Founder of Quantlife LTD

R3 LLC

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 27th June
Week 7:  Market Dynamics
  • Previous lecture recap
  • Bitcoin as a starting point
  • Financial bubbles review & explanation
  • ICO market dynamics
  • Other indicators  
    • Bitcoin dominance index
    • Relative asset valuations
    • Capital circulation
    • DCF model in crypto 

Guest Lecture: Due Diligence For ICOs and STOs

Dmytro Pershyn:

Head of Faculty: DLT Certificate & Founder of Quantlife LTD

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 4th July
Week 8: Guest Lectures

Blockchain Business Use-Cases and Business Strategies 

Home Assignment: Due-diligence for a chosen project

Alireza Siadat:

Supervising Associate, Simmons & Simmons

MODULE THREE: DLT and Fintech Regulation

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 11th July
Week 9:  Fintech Policy Overview (US, UK, EU, Malta)                    
  • Previous module recap
  • Module intro
  • FinTech definition
  • Brief history of FinTech
  • Regulatory challenges faced by Fintech companies
  • Regulatory infrastructure of different jurisdictions   

Gregory Klumov:

CEO & Founder, STASIS

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 18th July
Week 10: Cryptocurrency Regulation (US, UK, EU, Malta)              
  • Previous lecture recap
  • Cryptocurrency as money
  • Cryptocurrency as commodity
  • Cryptocurrency as property
  • ICO Regulation  
    • Howey Test
    • DAO example 

Dmytro Pershyn:

Head of Faculty: DLT Certificate & Founder of Quantlife LTD

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 25th July
Week 11: Guest Lecture

Crypto Regulation (esp. Malta) and Stablecons

Home Assignment: DLT use-case idea research and pitch

Dmytro Pershyn:

Head of Faculty: DLT Certificate & Founder of Quantlife LTD

18.00 - 20.00
Thursday 1st August
Week 12: Final Project Review Seminar

Final Project: write a white-paper or business plan for a new DLT project or automation of a business process within an existing business.

Dmytro Pershyn:

Head of Faculty: DLT Certificate & Founder of Quantlife LTD

Thursday 8th August
Distributed Ledger Technology in Finance Certificate (DLT) Examination

The final examination is taken globally, via our network of test centres.

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