3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture
Blockchain is gaining momentum and of increasing interest to both academia and industry. The underlying distributed ledger technology was first introduced in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto and its adoption will dramatically reshape the landscape of IT infrastructure of a diverse range of sectors, such as manufacturing, finance, government, healthcare, and insurance, from centralized control to decentralized cooperation. Under the hood, cryptography, distributed consensus, economic incentives, and autonomous management/computation are consolidated to support Blockchain technology. In this research-focused course, we will explore a variety of active research areas in the evolving Blockchain technology, identify the challenges of the current development and attempt to answer open questions. Permission of instructor required.
Learning Outcomes1Compare permissionless and permissioned blockchain network.
2Discuss the corresponding countermeasures for addressing the scalability issue of the current blockchain implementation.
3Describe the on-chain data protection and privacy-preserving technology.
4Describe the smart contracts, the related vulnerabilities, and mitigations.
5Explain the blockchain incentivization and related attacks.
6Analyze and evaluate blockchain-based applications.
7Investigate the selected research topics and propose innovative solutions.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.