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Distributed Ledger Technology
Underlying Concepts
Decentralization
Assets
Types of asset:
What is a blockchain asset
Digital Assets
Liquidity
Internet of Assets
Transactions
Step 1 - Initiating a Transaction
Step 2 - Verifying a transaction
Step 3 - Update
Ledgers
Transaction
Graph
Core Technologies
Public-key cryptography,
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
Cryptographic hash functions
Digital signatures
Proof of work
Smart contracts
Process Virtual Machine
Defining Blockchain
Overviews
History
Ownership
Genesis Block
The Revolution
Benefits
Saves Time
Reduces Costs
Reduces Risks
Increases Trust
Public vs Private Blockchains
Public
Private
Permissioned
Key Concepts
Distributed Ledger Technology
Consensus
Digression: Information Theory
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The Double Spending Problem
The Distributed Ledger Protocol
Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Honey Badger
BEAT
Proof of Work
Hash Function
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Tendermint
Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)
Plasma
Crypto Asset Classes
Permissionless
Temporal
Blockchain for Business
Business Requirements
Shared ledger
Smart contract
Privacy
Trust
Analytics (maybe)
Benefits
Trustlessness
Consensus
Provenance
Immutability and Finality
Equity?
Enterprise
Blockchain and…
Automation
AI
Raven Protocol
Forking
IoT
Google
Applications
Currency and Payment
Payments
Stripe
IBM - Blockchain World Wire
Square
SBI
Remittances
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eGifter
Gyft
Financial Services
Banks
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Financial Access and Opportunity
Bonds
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CrowdFunding
Collaborative Consumption
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Groundhog
Business Networking
Law
Markets
Prediction Markets
Asset Management
Shared Reference Data
Supply Chain
Citizens Reserve
Shipping
Human Resources
Quidli
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Proof of Conservation
Letter of Credit
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Resources and Industry
Agriculture
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Carbon Offsets
Carbon Grid Protocol
Verdium Labs
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Forecasting
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Books
Book Chain Project
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Fortnite
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Social Networks
Gitcoin - Kudos
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NFT Vendors
NFT Crash
Public Sector Applications
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Registries
Land
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Science
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Fitness
Sweatcoin
Medical records
MIT Medicalchain Project
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Crowdsourcing
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Refugee Support
Basic Income
Certification and Compliance
Education
Infrastructure
Credentials and Competencies
Blockcerts
Gradbase
APPII
Xertify
Open Badges
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Open Badge Passport
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Scholarship and Recognition
Student Services
Content
Spitball
Academic Publishing
International Journal of Open Educational Resources
Pluto
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DEIP
Scienceroots
Woolf University
Museums
GlobalXplorer Antiquities Registry
Governance
Government Records
Personal Data
Voting
Voatz
Misc. Governance
Identity
Five Problems of Identity
The Proximity Problem
The Scale Problem
The Flexibility Problem
The Privacy Problem
The Consent Problem
Authentication
Passwords
Software-Based
ID.me
Keys
SecureKey
Yubi
Trusted Key
Trust
Trust Lists
EU
OIXNet
IDEF
Kantara Trust Registry
CAB (CA/Browser) Forum
Trust Schemes
tScheme
Trust Frameworks
FICAM - Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management Architecture
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Minors Trust Framework
Mydex Trust Framework
The Respect Trust Framework
Nate Blue Button for Consumers Trust Bundle (NBB4C)
SecureKey Concierge Canada Trust Framework
Pan Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF)
TeX from Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA)
Fido2
Projects
Open Identity Exchange (OIX)
Credentials
Dock
Distributed Identity
Uport
Civic
Evernym / Sovrin
Adoption strategy
Obstacles to Adoption
Stages:
Compliance ledger
Consortium shared ledger
Asset exchange
High value market
The CxO Playbook
Key Players
Regulator
Industry Group
Market Maker
Related Technologies
Validation
Message Brokers
Hosting and Suppport
Serverless Applications
Containers
Docker
Bots
Watermark Token
Wallets
Electronic Wallets
SimpleWallet / Zedwallet
BreadWallet
Eidoo
Atomic Swap Wallet
Exodus
Copay Wallet
Bitfi
Security Token (b) / Hardware Wallet
Ledger Nano
TREZOR
The Elephant
Explorers
Etherscan
User Interface
MetaMask
Mist
Hardware
GPUs
Crypto ASIC
Antminer
Services
Theoretical Foundations
Paxos
Raft
Generalized Consensus Algorithm
Core Elements of Consensus
Generality
Immutability
Implementations
Proof of Work
Proof of Stake
Proof of Authority
Solo
Kafka/Zookeeper
Proof of Elapsed Time
PBFT-Issued
Advanced Concepts
Network Effects
Symmetric key encryption
DES - The Data Encryption Standard
AES - Advanced Encryption Standard
Asymmetric Cryptography
Protocols using Asymmetric Cryptography
Asymmetric Cryptography Algorithms
DH Diffie-Hellman
RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman)
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Hybrid Cryptography
Digital Signatures
Public key authentication
Keybase
BitID
Secure Computing Architectures
Homomorphic Encryption
Secure multi-party computation (MCP)
Zero Knowledge Proofs
Nightfall
zk-snarks
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Types of Oracle
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Inbound Oracles
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Consensus Based Oracles
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Lack of Parallelism
Layer 1 Responses
Block Sizes
Sharding
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Payment Channels
State Channels
Counterfactual: Generalized State Channels on Ethereum
Features and Limitations of state channels
Plasma
Truebit
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Web of Trust (WoT)
Internet of Things (IoT)
Trust and Security
Oraclize
Town Crier
Chainlink
Further Reading
Web3
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Fission
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Canadian Web3 Council
Coins
Bitcoin
Bitcoin vs The Rest
Nodes
Bitcoin Mining
Transactions
Bitcoin as Social Contract
Colored Coins
Light Clients
Bitcoin Private
Taproot
Forks
Bitcoin Lightning
Payment Channels
Hash-Time Locked Contracts (HTLC)
Routing Nodes
Watchtowers
Splicing
Atomic Multipath Payments (AMP)
Applications
Bitcoin Cash
Ethereum
Storing Data
Mining Ether
Gas Limits
Nodes
Geth
Frameworks
Meteor
Casper
Scaling Solutions
Token Standards
ERC-20
ERC-721
ENS - Ethereum Name Service
Ethereum Profiles
3Box
Networks
Rinkeby
Smart Contracts
Encoding
Solidity
Verification
Zeus
Security
Securify
Ethereum Classic
Solana
Libra
Facebook’s involvement
Criticisms of Libra
Gram
Ripple
Stellar
Elixxir
Skycoin
Nano
Eos
AMP
Turtlecoin
Iota
Monero (XMR)
Luna
Stablecoins
IOU Centralized, Collateral-Backed Stablecoins
LIVE PROJECTS
Tether
GHO
USD Coin
USD Coin (by Circle & CENTRE)
Others
TrueUSD (by TrustToken Team)
AAA Reserve
Digix Gold Tokens
EURS (by Stasis)
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
Globcoin.io
Jibrel (by Jibrel Network)
PHI (by dfinity-network)
Saga
Stably, Inc.
Stronghold USD (by Stronghold & IBM)
X8currency
IOU “Semi-Decentralized,” Collateral-Backed Stablecoins
LIVE PROJECTS
Bitshares
Havven.io
MakerDAO
StatiCoin
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
Alchemint
Augmint
Boreal (by aurora-dao)
Celo
Reserve (by Reserve Research Team)
Sweetbridge
Unum
Seigniorage Shares
LIVE PROJECTS
BitBay Official
NuBits
SteemDollar (by Steemit)
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
Basis
Carbon
Corion
Fragments
Kowala (by Kowala Tech)
Topl
Stable
StableUnit
Terra.Money
Stakenet
Mining and Miners
Mining Overview
Mining Software
Bitmain
Mining Pools
The Mining Industry
Exchanges
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Kiosks
Cryptocurrency Indexes
Cryptocurrency Index 30 (CCi30)
Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index (BCGI)
Coinbase Index
Huobi Index (HB10)
Bitmain Big 10 Index (BLC10)
Centralized Exchanges
Bakkt
Coinbase
Binance
ErisX
eToro
Others
Decentralized Exchanges
Altcoin.io
IDEX
0x
EtherDelta
Funds Management
Trading Logic
The Ocean
Airswap Protocol
Bancor
Kyber Network
Definitions
Networks
Aion
Essentia
ICOs
Tokens
What is a token?
Utility Tokens
Security Token (a)
Jasper
Societe General
Polymath
AirSwap
Activity
The ICO Process
The Future of ICOs
Platforms, Hosting and Support
Fabric
Hyperledger Fabric
Hyperledger Composer modelling language
Business Network Definitions
Model Files
Access control file
Queries:
Transaction processor functions
Azure Blockchain Development Kit
Truffle
DFINITY
Quorum
Multichain
Chaincode
Baidu - Super Chain
Alibaba - Ant Financial
Ark
Particl
R3 - Corda
Meta Mask
Rootstock
Catena
Brave
Decentralized Storage
Core Concepts
Data Structures
Distributed Hash Tables
Block Exchanges
Self-Certified Filesystems - SFS
Directed Acyclic Graph - DAG
Version Control Systems - GIT
Merkle Trees
Merkle DAG object model
Patricia Trie (or Tree)
Hashgraph
Tangle
Fabric
SAFE / PARSEC
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Technologies
Kademlia
Decentralized Semantic Web applications
Inter Planetary File System (IPFS)
Overview
Core Concepts
Hosting a website on IPFS - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdPtC3T7Kcu9iJg6hYzLBWR5XCDcYMY7HV685E3kH3EcS/2015/09/15/hosting-a-website-on-ipfs/
IPFS Secure File Sharing
IPFS Crawling
Decentralized Documents
Decentralized Databases
Linked Data
Semantic Web
JSON-LD
Linked Data and Distributed Ledgers
LinkChains
OrbitDB
Decentralized Database Projects
IPLD - Inter Planetary Linked Data
DAT Project
Repux.io
Swarm
Storj
Filecoin
Maidsafe
Sia
Token-Curated Registries
Distributed Applications -
Ethereum DApp
3rd Generation dAPPs
Toshi
Metamask
Centrality
Nervos
Nervos Common Knowledge Base (CKB)
Search
Distributed Computing
DFINITY
Distributed Organizations
Distributed Business Models
The aggregator model
The Holding Company Model
Marketplaces
Data Marketplaces
Secure Computing
Machine Learning Marketplaces
Benefits
The ultimate recommender engine
Numer.ai
Distributed AI Mesh
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Participatory Design
DAO
Distributed Social Networks
Steemit
Sapien
BUIDL
Research Projects
Blockchain Research Institute
MIT Digital Tradecoin
DreamTeam
Technology Stack
Cryptokitties
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CryptoPunks
Cryptostrikers
Ripple Research Initiative
Bitnation
KORD
Blockchain Center of Excellence
RCanopus Consensus Protocol
Project Aiur
Make-Your-Own-Blockchain
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Investment
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Consortia
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MLG Blockchain
International
Africa
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Kenya
Nigeria
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UK
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New York
Oklahoma
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Venezuela
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Overviews
Conceptual Issues
Locus of value
Economic Incentives
Nothing-at-Stake Problem
Immutability
Centralization
Decentralization
Sybil Attacks
Anonymity
Technical Issues
Technology Standards
Software Reliability
Centralization
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Energy Consumption
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Transition Costs
Social-Political Issues
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Dormant Wallets
It’s a Bubble
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Fake ICOs
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Bitcoin Savings and Trust
QuadrigaCX
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Silk Road
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DNS hacks
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Phone hacks
Selfish Miner
Eclipse Attack
Cybersecurity Events
The Dao
Parity Hacks.
Coinrail
Mt. Gox
Coincheck
BitThumb
HoweyCoins
Bitfinance API
Canadian Bitcoins
Zaif - Japan
Coinbase
Risks
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IP
GDPR
Future?
Four Things Missing
Four waves of anticipated blockchain deployments
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Critical infrastructure
Fully decentralized
The Internet of Value
Quantum-Proofing the Blockchain
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