Blockchain is an emerging technology that ensures the immutability and traceability of stored records through decentralization. Although blockchain technology was introduced with cryptocurrency (such as Bitcoin), blockchain has a broad potential outside the cryptocurrency today. Besides cryptocurrency, blockchain enables decentralized enterprise applications in several financial services, healthcare, travel, real estate, inventory control systems, e-voting, public sectors, and different supply-chains such as agriculture, seafood, poultry, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, there are lots of other applications where blockchain can be used but have not yet been explored. Hence, the main objective of this course is to give you the idea of different blockchain use cases and think out of the box to explore innovative use cases of blockchain.

This course is designed to allow you to explore different blockchain platforms, decentralized application (DApp) tools, and other technologies that cohort with blockchain, such as Smart Contracts. In this course you will get hands-on practical experience developing the blockchain-based decentralized applications in a project environment. You will work in teams and complete projects for work-integrated learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge in blockchain and programming skills will be applied and assessed.

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a simulated workplace context and where feedback from the industry will be provided. Type of WIL activities involved: simulation of an industrial secure software engineering project.