| Name | Offered by | About the Course |
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| Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance Specialization | Duke University | DeFi and the Future of Finance is a four course learning experience. DeFi or Decentralized Finance is a new technology whereby users interact as peers with algorithms or smart contracts rather than through traditional intermediaries such as banks, brokerages or insurance companies.
•The first course, DeFi Infrastructure, focuses on the historical evolution of decentralized finance as well as the problems that DeFi solves.
•The second course, DeFi Primitives, deals with mechanics, supply and ownership, and loans and swaps.
•The third course, DeFi Deep Dive, explores the leading protocols including MakerDAO, Compound, Aave, Uniswap and dYdX.
•The fourth course, DeFi Risks and Opportunities, analyzes the key risks including smart contract risk, governance risk, scaling as well as regulatory issues. The final part of the course sketches a vision of finance in the future including the winners and the losers.
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| Cryptocurrency: Beyond Bitcoin Teach-Out | University of Michigan | This course will introduce you to the mechanisms of cryptocurrency, systems of blockchain, and the process of mining. It will also take you through the characteristics of currency and the history of cryptocurrencies. On this course, you’ll assess the societal and ecological impacts that cryptocurrencies and their technologies have, looking at ways to mitigate any negative impacts. You’ll also consider whether cryptocurrencies carry some of their purported risks - investment fraud, market disruption, and criminal activity. |
| Bitcoin and Blockchain Program | SDA Bocconi School of Management | On Completion of This Program, You’ll Walk Away With: 1) An in-depth understanding of the technical pillars that underpin blockchain technology and its applications. 2)The ability to identify Bitcoin and blockchain technology’s capabilities and the associated regulatory frameworks and challenges. 3)The skills to apply blockchain solutions to support your business and unlock value. 4) An appreciation of the power of decentralization and the business opportunities it presents. |
| Blockchain Revolution Specialization | INSEAD | This four-course Specialization introduces you to the world of blockchain technology—explaining what blockchain is, how it works, and why it’s revolutionary. You will learn about various categories of cryptoassets, and the ways they can be transacted on a blockchain. You will learn how blockchain is disrupting business models and financial services, offering organizations new choices in how they create and manage value. Additionally, you will gain access to ground-breaking research from the Blockchain Research Institute as well as the Blockchain Case Commons—a crowdsourced collection of blockchain applications and use-cases spanning multiple industries. Upon completion of this Specialization, you will produce a Blockchain Opportunity Analysis, in which you identify and evaluate a promising application of blockchain technology in your own industry. |
| Introduction to Blockchain Technology and Applications | University College London | By the end of the course, you’ll understand how blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used to solve diverse business problems, going far beyond financial concerns. The course starts with blockchain’s beginnings, exploring its start in Bitcoin, its evolution in Ethereum, and beyond. Once you understand how blockchain and DLT work, you’ll see how they foster decentralisation across business operations. You’ll see how the technologies are improving supply chains, data reconciliation, and overall transparency; changing the way businesses make decisions; and disrupting conventional socioeconomic systems. |
| Fintech: Blockchain for Business and Finance | The University of Texas at Austin | The course provides a business-oriented overview of blockchain technology, distributed ledgers, and cryptocurrencies. |
| Blockchain Revolution in Financial Services Specialization | INSEAD | This four-course specialization introduces learners to the world of blockchain technology for financial services—including what blockchain is, how it works, and why it is revolutionary. Students learn about various categories of cryptoassets and the ways they can be transacted on a blockchain. They learn how blockchain is transforming the economy and society at large—redefining workflows, global payments, and prosperity. As an outcome of this specialization, students produce a Strategic Action Plan wherein they identify and evaluate a promising application of blockchain technology within the financial services industry. |
| Blockchain Specialization | University of California, Irvine | Gain a fundamental understanding of blockchain technology and its components. Learn how such applications as cryptofinance makes use of the blockchain for decentralized, peer-to-peer transaction processing. Apply your knowledge of blockchain technology to enhance your trust and confidence in cryptocurrency trading and other situations where the blockchain is used. Throughout this course, you'll have opportunities for hands-on practice involving such blockchain elements as cryptography, hashing, and the assembly of blocks. You'll also have a chance to propose new uses of blockchain technologies for industries other than finance. The creative skills you'll learn and practice in this course will be useful both when using blockchain applications and when exploring new opportunities for applying blockchain concepts. |
| Supply Chain Finance and Blockchain Technology Specialization | New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) | This 4-course Specialization will describe in detail the evolution of traditional trade finance and the shift to supply chain finance, delving into the key elements, available options from which solutions are implemented, and an in-depth view on the success factors. Given that Supply Chain Finance is still evolving, this Specialization focuses on the main challenges, trends and technology developments in the market (such as Blockchain Technology) and provides an insight into the future of supply chain finance in the broader context. When you complete the Specialization, you will gain the knowledge and skills to assess and identify Supply Chain Finance opportunities for a corporate buying organization. |
| Decentralised Finance: Blockchain, Ethereum, and The Future of Banking | RMIT University | On this course, you’ll discover what decentralised finance is, how it differs from traditional finance, and how it can put you a step ahead for the future.This course takes an in-depth look at Decentralised Finance (DeFi) platforms and protocols, cryptocurrencies, decentralised exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets and the range of applications in DeFi.You’ll also learn about Ethereum wallets, applications that allow holders to interact with their Ethereum accounts. From exchanges and derivatives to payments and insurance, you’ll find out how decentralising areas of finance could make for a faster and fairer world in the future. You’ll also begin to understand how blockchain applies to these more specific areas. |
| Blockchain for the decision maker | EIT Digital and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics | In this course you will learn:
- the concept of Distributed Ledgers and how 'blockchain' can provide them
- the difference between public networks (as Bitcoin) and consortial ones bespoke for specific business consortia and needs
- the key value propositions of blockchain for business and a birds-eye view of use case patterns
- the fact that conscious, stepwise "blockchainification" can help you avoid unnecessary disruption and manage risk
- turnkey solutions on the leading clouds enable enterprise integration and rapid introduction |
| Blockchain and FinTech: Basics, Applications, and Limitations | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | In this course, you will understand the design rationale of blockchain technology, its emerging platforms and applications and uncover the limitations and the opportunities enabled by blockchain applications, particularly as it relates to finance. |
| Blockchain Scalability and its Foundations in Distributed Systems | University of Sydney | In this course, you will learn how to make blockchain scale. You will learn about the foundational problem of distributed computing, consensus, that is key to create blocks securely. By illustrating limitations of mainstream blockchains, this course will indicate how to improve the technology in terms of security and efficiency. This course will help you: understand security vulnerabilities of mainstream blockchains; design consensus algorithms that tolerate attacks, and; design scalable blockchain systems. |
| Introduction to Blockchain Specialization | Association of International Certified Professional Accountants | This specialization focuses on demystifying the blockchain technology by helping you understand the foundational constructs, benefits and opportunities of blockchain technology. You will be prepared to weigh the risks and challenges as you consider implementing this technology within your organization. Learners will be challenged to apply the principles of money to a currency of their own choosing and compare that to the trajectory of bitcoin. They will also apply the disruptive capabilities of blockchain to new industries and existing financial functions to demonstrate how blockchain can simplify and improve existing business functions. |
| Raising Capital: Credit Tech, Coin Offerings, and Crowdfunding | University of Michigan | In this course, you will explore the ways in which technology has transformed access to consumer credit and access to seed capital for business projects. You will examine disruptive technologies in credit scoring, raising capital through tokenization, and the evolution of crowdfunding for both debt and equity financing. You will also learn how to differentiate between crypto-based capital-raising models. Innovations Specialization. |
| Blockchain Business Models | Duke University | Blockchain is an emerging and highly disruptive technology that is poorly understood. In this course you will learn what blockchain is and how it can create value by tokenization in cryptocurrencies and in many other practical applications. The applications include: stablecoins (like Facebook’s Libra and JP Morgan’s JPMCoin), machine to machine payments, identity protection, supply chain management (Walmart, Maersk, IBM), secure voting, distributed exchanges, decentralized finance, property transfers, central bank fiat crypto (e.g., Fedcoin and China’s digital Renminbi), dispensing prescription drugs, private records, intellectual property, financial reporting, and media and advertising, to name a few. The goals of the course are to: (i) provide an advanced understanding of the various blockchain technologies; (ii) determine the specific business situations where blockchain technology can be deployed to solve important problems; (iii) select the specific blockchain technology that has the best chance of success for a particular problem; and (iv) detail the risks presented by this new technology. |
| Blockchain Fundamentals Professional Certificate | University of California, Berkeley (BerkeleyX) | In this course, you will learn 1-Synthesize your own blockchain solutions. 2-Gain an in-depth understanding of the specific mechanics of Bitcoin. 3- Understand Bitcoin’s real-life applications and learn how to attack and destroy Bitcoin, Ethereum, smart contracts and Dapps, and alternatives to Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm. 4- Enterprise-level blockchain implementations and understand the scaling struggles of blockchain and potential solutions. 5- The regulation of cryptocurrencies and its implications for anonymity, and what blockchain means for the future. |
| Introduction to Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) | UCL Consultants and UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies | On this course, you’ll get an introduction to blockchain and DLT through a case study of a company that uses various aspects of the technologies to solve business problems. You’ll discover how and why blockchain technologies can be used in business to improve processes and inform decision-making. You’ll explore its Bitcoin beginnings and learn how blockchains can change how information and value is stored, transferred and coordinated. You’ll also consider how DLT can be used to change current business models through the use of smart contracts and secure data coordination. |
| Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Explained | University of Michigan | You will learn how blockchain works, articulate the key technical aspects, such as decentralization and consensus algorithms, Describe the strengths and weaknesses of cryptocurrency as an asset and a payment mechanism, and Evaluate tradeoffs of blockchain as a business solution. |
| Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies | Princeton University | To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. We’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin, such as:
How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold?
After this course, you’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able to integrate ideas from Bitcoin in your own projects. |
| A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Blockchain Developer with Overledger | King’s College London and Quant | On this course, you will learn how to develop programs to send and receive payments for BTC, ETH, and XRP. You will also learn about the groundbreaking distributed ledger technology that these cryptocurrencies are built on.On this course, you’ll gain the skills needed to create your own applications and programs that can interact with and be built on distributed ledger technologies (DLTs). |
| How Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets can master the Blockchain Technology | University of Cape Town | In this course, you will gain a thorough understanding of the blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, including an introduction to the necessary foundations in cryptography. The course will discuss blockchain as a distributed ledger and introduce distributed consensus as a mechanism to maintain the integrity of the blockchain. The other revolutionary technologies that are changing the world as we speak are artificial intelligence and machine learning. You will learn about the three major types of AI algorithms: supervised and unsupervised machine learning, as well as reinforcement learning.
You will learn about the application of blockchain outside of finance. In particular, how blockchain fundamentally changes the way we deal with our personal data. You will see how the web 2.0 model--where big companies like facebook and google collect as much of your personal data as possible to sell it to third parties--is coming to an end. The new web 3.0 is decentralized and uses the power of the blockchain to put users in full control over their own data. Finally, we will look at the benefits and considerations of blockchain and whether blockchain is the right solution for your problem. |
| Blockchain: Foundations and Use Cases | ConsenSys Academy | This course is the definitive introduction to blockchain for both the developer and non-developer audience. Beyond the technology, this course will introduce you to some of the philosophy behind decentralization and why there is so much excitement around it.
During the first three modules, you'll be introduced to blockchain and the technology behind it. In module four, we'll go beyond bitcoin and delve deeper into a next-generation blockchain called Ethereum to introduce you to what modern blockchains can do. The use cases featured in the final module are drawn from among the businesses in ConsenSys' startup portfolio. We believe we're uniquely positioned to present you with a valuable behind-the-scenes look at the people and companies working in this space to help give you a better understanding of the business side of blockchain. |
| Blockchain for Business Professional Certificate | The Linux Foundation (LinuxFoundationX) | In this course you will learn- 1) How to describe Business Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies to audiences with varying experience. 2) Blockchain impact and potential for change around the world. 3) Demonstrate some of the immediate blockchain use cases in technology, business, and enterprise products and institutions. 4) Gain familiarity with current Hyperledger projects and cross-industry use cases. |
| Blockchain Specialization | University at Buffalo and The State University of New York | This specialization introduces blockchain, a revolutionary technology that enables peer-to-peer transfer of digital assets without any intermediaries, and is predicted to be just as impactful as the Internet. More specifically, it prepares learners to program on the Ethereum blockchain. The four courses provide learners with (i) an understanding and working knowledge of foundational blockchain concepts, (ii) a skill set for designing and implementing smart contracts, (iii) methods for developing decentralized applications on the blockchain, and (iv) information about the ongoing specific industry-wide blockchain frameworks. |
| Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies | University of Pennsylvania | This course was designed for individuals and organizations who want to learn how to navigate investment in cryptocurrencies. You’ll learn how to define a currency, analyze the foundations of digital signatures and blockchain technology in cryptocurrency, and accurately assess the risks of cryptocurrency in a modern investment portfolio. By the end of this course, you’ll have a deep understanding of the realities of Cryptocurrency, the intricacies of Blockchain technology, and an effective strategy for incorporating Cryptocurrency into your investment plans. |
| Blockchain Essentials Professional Certificate | IBM | In this course, you will learn - 1)What blockchain technology and distributed ledger systems are and how they can be implemented in a business environment. 2) Important concepts for applying blockchain technology in the real world and key use cases of blockchain for business today. 3)How assets can be transferred in a blockchain network. 4)The role of Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project, which includes a variety of enterprise-ready permissioned blockchain platforms, in accelerating blockchain utilization for various industries. 5)Use cases and applications of blockchain technology in modern finance and other areas. |
| Legal Tech and the Digital Transformation of Law | Universidad Austral | This program will give you a broad overview of the main trends that are affecting the legal industry: - The birth of the legal tech market and the application of technology in law. - The role of artificial intelligence in the automation of the work of lawyers. - Blockchain technology and its impact on the way we sign and execute contracts. - Initiatives to ensure access to justice through virtual courts and robot judges. The program is aimed at lawyers, notaries, officials, executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to know the main technological and business trends that are impacting the legal world. |
| Blockchain 360: A State of the Art for Professionals | EIT Digital | In this course, you will learn the basics of blockchain technology which include: Blockchain characteristics, Blockchain automation, Identification of opportunities, Platforms, Transformative potential, Blockchain integration challenges, Decentralization & trends. |
| Blockchain Applications Certificate | Duke University | In this course, you will learn how to use blockchain to solve real-world financial market challenges. After you complete this program, you will be eligible for a scholarship and fast-tracked application process if you decide to apply to Duke University's Master of Engineering in FinTech program. |
