[series] University courses of Blockchain - University of Alcalá, Madrid
The blockchain came up with Bitcoin, in a very autonomous context of search for security solutions based on decentralization. Now, with its popularization, technology is penetrating institutional and business environments, which makes it necessary to formalize this knowledge through recognized educational institutions, such as universities. The institutionalization of a knowledge that was generated in such an experimental way is a rather curious phenomenon that reinforces the importance of this technology to the extent that it is spontaneously being incorporated into territories beyond entrepreneurial, also academic.
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ
Universidad de Alcalá is a public university located in a province of Madrid, Spain. It is a Unesco world heritage site and one of the oldest European universities, which began in 1293. The institution brings together history and innovation since it is one of the first to found a university course in blockchain.
The university has 28,000 students, 2,000 teachers and employs 800 staff in the areas of administration and services. According to the Institute of Educational Sciences of the University of Valencia (2013), the University of Alcalá is one of the 10 best universities in Spain. The three campuses (Historical, Scientific and Technological of Guadalajara), total 40 undergraduate courses. It is also the 8th highest research productivity university in Spain and one of the first in the country in doctoral theses, patent generation and spin-offs.
Source: https://www.uah.es/es/
MASTER IN BLOCKCHAIN, INTELLIGENT CONTRACTS AND CRYPTOECONOMICS
The master's degree was created in response to the rapid and increasingly radical change in the usual means of payment due to P2P technologies, encryption structures and other new technological elements. It is intended for professionals, students or interested in knowing the technologies based on Blockchain from a perspective that integrates technical, economic, social and legal aspects.
The master has the following teaching objectives:
• Know the technical fundamentals of Blockchain technology and its main materializations, such as Ethereum.
• Understand the underlying incentive systems and their operation and sustainability.
• Know the applications of these technologies and related innovative and / or disruptive models.
• Know the legal and regulatory implications.
• Know and be able to analyze the origins, foundations, history and evolution of Blockchain technology from the beginning of Bitcoin until its generalization.
• Know how to use different cryptography applications or systems based on Smart Agreements, as well as understand and select exchange services from a user perspective.
• Know the fundamentals of monetary systems and financial markets and know how to contextualize crypto-coins and other systems based on Intelligent Contract in contrast or analogy with them.
• Understand the incentive systems on which Blockchain systems are based and understand the elements of game theory underlying them.
• Know and be able to analyze the legal and regulatory implications of cryptomoedas and other systems based on Intelligent Contracts.
• Know and be able to describe and explain the operation of Blockchains as distributed systems and to understand the architecture and fundamental algorithm on which it is based.
• Know how to formulate applications, cases and ideas on the application of Blockchain technologies in different sectors and business areas, mainly through the Ethereum ecosystem.
MODULES
MODULE I - EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES
• Fundamentals of exponential technologies.
• Moore's Law
• Disruptive innovation
• Abundance and uniqueness.
• Moonshot thinking.
• Exponential organizations
MODULE III - DISTRIBUTED AND P2P SYSTEMS
• P2P systems.
• Consensus algorithms.
• Preventing attacks on P2P systems.
• Decentralized file systems.
MODULE IV - APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY
• Asymmetric Cryptography.
• Digital signatures
• Elliptic curve cryptography.
• ECDS algorithm.
• Hash functions.
• Merkle trees
MODULE V - BLOCKCHAINS
• Technical fundamentals and blockchains operation.
• Systems and consensus algorithms in blockchains.
• Types of blockchains: public, private, hybrid and other alternatives.
• Challenges and future of blockchains.
MODULE VI - SAFETY AND PRIVACY
• Information security
• Assignment in cyberspace.
• Cybernetic research techniques.
• Introduction to cybersecurity.
• Privacy and anonymity with crypto-coins.
MODULE VII - INTELLIGENT CONTRACTS
• Decentralization
• History and operation of smart contracts.
• DApps and DAOs.
• External interactions for smart contracts.
MODULE VIII - LEGAL ASPECTS
• Ordination and jurisdiction of cyberspace.
• Legal aspects of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
• Blockages and legal considerations.
• Financial regulation.
MODULE IX - BITCOIN AND CRIPTOMONEDAS
• History and origin of digital coins and Bitcoin.
• General operation
• User Tools
• Exchanges.
• Transactions
• Bitcoin network architectures.
• Altcoins
MODULE X - MONEY AND BANKING
• Origin and evolution of money.
• The role of central banks and the fundamentals of the monetary economy.
• Financial institutions, financial markets and their functions.
MODULE XI - ETHEREUM AND CRYOPTOECONOMY
• Introduction to Ethereum and Cryptoeconomics.
• Stable Currencies
• Tokens and asset tokenization.
• OICs.
• Network effect.
MODULE XII - THEORY OF GAMES AND DESIGN OF MECHANISMS
• Introduction to game theory.
• Mechanism design.
• Auctions
• Forecast markets.
MODULE XIII - ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
• Innovation and entrepreneurship with blockchains.
• Advanced applications of decentralized technologies.
• Design and development of dapps and smart contracts.
• Fintech and cryptomoeda.
• Encryption Markets.
Interested? Know more:
https://www.masterethereum.com/
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