Blockchain Masterclass E-Learning

Master blockchain technology and lead the digital future – fully online!

Why choose this training?

Blockchain is more than just the technology behind cryptocurrencies. It offers unmatched security, transparency, and efficiency — essential for industries such as supply chain, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

This Blockchain Masterclass E-Learning Training prepares you for several blockchain career tracks. You’ll not only understand blockchain theory, but also gain real-world skills through hands-on training.

✔️ 1 year of 24/7 access to video lessons, exercises, and progress tracking
✔️ Certificate of completion included
✔️ Learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere

This course includes four specialized tracks:

• Track 1: Blockchain Application Developer
• Track 2: Blockchain Smart Contracts Programmer
• Track 3: Blockchain Engineer
• Track 4: Blockchain Solutions Architect

Who should enroll?

This course is ideal for:

• IT professionals aiming to specialize in blockchain
• Developers and engineers building blockchain applications
• Consultants guiding organizations in blockchain adoption
• Entrepreneurs and managers seeking strategic insight into blockchain
• Career changers entering a high-demand tech field

This learning path, with more than 78 hours of online content, is divided into the following four tracks:

Track 1: Blockchain Application Developer

In this track of the Blockchain journey, the focus is getting started with Blockchain and discovering Ethereum.
Content:
E-learning courses

Blockchains & Ethereum: Introduction

Course: 59 Minutes

• Course Overview
• An Overview of Blockchains
• An Introduction to Ethereum
• Mining and Ether
• Chaining of Blocks
• A Blockchain as a Distributed Ledger
• Transactions
• Miners and Gas
• Exercise: Introducing Blockchains and Ethereum

Blockchains & Ethereum: Performing Transactions in Ethereum

Course: 1 Hour, 8 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Cryptographic Hashing In Blockchains
• Chains Of Blocks
• Merkle Trees
• Transaction Verification
• Digital Signatures and Identity
• Verifying Sender's Balance
• Transaction Nonce
• Exercise: Implementing Transactions in Ethereum

Blockchains & Ethereum: Mining and Smart Contracts in Ethereum

Course: 1 Hour, 15 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Transaction Ordering and Consensus
• Consensus by Proof of Work
• Finding the Proof of Work Nonce
• Claiming the Mining Rewards
• Beyond Proof of Work
• Smart Contracts
• The Solidity Programming Language
• Gas - the Measure of Complexity of Transactions
• Exercise: Mining and Smart Contracts

Working with Ethereum: Storing Data

Course: 59 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Revisiting Blockchain Concepts
• A Glossary of Ethereum Terms
• States in Ethereum
• The Trie Data Structure
• The Merkle Patricia Trie - Part
• The Merkle Patricia Trie - Part
• Exercise: Storing Data in Ethereum

Working with Ethereum: Smart Contract Development

Course: 1 Hour, 14 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Ethereum Test Network
• The Ethereum Virtual Machine
• Compiling Smart Contracts
• Ethereum Nodes
• Ethereum Clients
• Metamask
• Developing Smart Contracts
• The Truffle Suite
• Exercise: Smart Contract Development8

Working with Ethereum: Metamask & the Ethereum Wallet

Course: 1 Hour, 27 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Installing Metamask
• Loading Ether Using the Rinkeby Faucet
• Installing the Ethereum Wallet Application
• Transferring Ether Using Metamask
• Deploying a Smart Contract with Ethereum Wallet
• Interacting with a Deployed Smart Contract
• Constructors in Solidity
• Constructors with Arguments in Solidity
• Defining a Token Transfer Function
• Writing to a Smart Contract
• Conditions in a Solidity Contract
• Cleaning Up Ethereum Wallet7
• Exercise: Metamask and the Ethereum Wallet

Working with Ethereum: The Geth Client

Course: 46 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Setting Up a Private Blockchain With Geth
• The Geth Console
• Mining Blocks Using Geth
• Invoking Transactions with Geth
• Adding a New Node to a Network
• Exercise: The Geth Ethereum Client

Working with Ethereum: Lifecycle of a Smart Contract

Course: 46 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Developing a Contract with Solidity
• Compiling a Solidity Smart Contract
• Writing a Compile Script
• The Mocha Test Framework
• Integrating Mocha with Ethereum
• Exercise: The Lifecycle of a Smart Contract

Working with Ethereum: Tools for Smart Contract Development

Course: 1 Hour, 17 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Writing a Contract Deployment Script
• Testing a Function on a Deployed Contract
• Separating Deployment from Testing
• The Ganache Framework
• Interacting with a Contract from JavaScript
• Deploying a Contract to Rinkeby
• The Remix IDE
• Invoking Transactions Using Remix and Metamask
• Programmatic Interaction with the Rinkeby Network
• Accessing a Deployed Contract from Ethereum Wallet
• Exercise: Tools for Smart Contract Development

Online Mentor

You can reach your Mentor by entering chats or submitting an email.

Final Exam assessment

Estimated duration: 90 minutes

Practice Labs: Blockchain Application Developer (estimated duration: 8 hours)

Practice Blockchain Application Developer tasks such as working with cryptographic functions, developing, compiling, and deploying a smart contract in Remix. You will also set up a private Ethereum network. Then, test your skills by answering assessment questions after interacting with a deployed smart contract.

This lab provides access to tools typically used by Blockchain Application Developers, including:

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, NPM/Node, Git, Ethereum, Geth, Chrome, VS Code

Track 2: Blockchain Smart Contracts Programmer

In this Skillsoft Aspire track of the Blockchain journey, the focus is coding smart contracts with Solidity and building smart contracts with Hyperledger.
Content:
E-learning courses

Ethereum Smart Contracts with Solidity: An Overview of Ethereum and Solidity

Course: 57 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Fundamentals of Blockchain
• Characteristics of Ethereum
• Smart Contracts
• An Overview of Solidity
• Solidity Bytecode and Opcode
• Pragmas and Comments
• Exercise: Overview of Ethereum and Solidity

Ethereum Smart Contracts with Solidity: Features of the Solidity Language

Course: 1 Hour, 22 Minutes

Course Overview

• Primitive Types in Solidity
• Payable Functions and Function Modifiers
• Complex Types in Solidity
• Reference Types in Solidity
• Units and Global Variables
• Function Visibility
• Control Structures, Events and Inheritance
• Ether Transfer Functions
• Building Smart Contracts with solc and Remix
• The Truffle Suite
• Exercise: Features of Solidity

Ethereum Smart Contracts with Solidity: The Remix Solidity IDE

Course: 1 Hour, 21 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Primitive Types in Solidity
• Payable Functions and Function Modifiers
• Complex Types in Solidity
• Reference Types in Solidity
• Units and Global Variables
• Function Visibility
• Control Structures, Events and Inheritance
• Ether Transfer Functions
• Building Smart Contracts with solc and Remix
• The Truffle Suite
• Exercise: Features of Solidity

Ethereum Smart Contracts with Solidity: Functions in Solidity

Course: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Deploying Contracts With Constructor Arguments
• Introducing Functions
• View Functions
• Functions Modifying the Contract State
• Defining the Return Types of a Function
• Pure Functions
• Function Modifiers
• Function Polymorphism
• Contract Inheritance
• Abstract Contracts
• Defining Visibility Levels
• Testing the Effects of Different Visibility Levels
• Exercise: Functions in Solidity

Ethereum Smart Contracts with Solidity: Ether Transfer Operations in Solidity

Course: 1 Hour, 27 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Fallback Functions
• Defining an Ether Transfer Function
• Invoking an Ether Transfer
• Extending Fallback Functions
• Limitations of Fallback Functions
• The selfdestruct Function
• Introducing Arrays
• The require and assert Clauses
• Provisioning Variables in Memory and Storage
• Value and Reference Types
• Setting Provisioning Location for Reference Types
• Exercise: Ether Transfer Operations in Solidity

Ethereum Smart Contracts with Solidity: Data & Control Structures in Solidity

Course: 1 Hour, 11 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Building a Voting App with Solidity
• Interacting with the Voting App
• Block and Transaction Properties
• Introducing the Mapping Data Structure
• Enhancing the Voting App
• Using Structs with Composite Data
• Complex Data in Mapping Instances
• Control Structures: If Statements and For Loops
• Control Structures: While and Do while Loops
• Exercise: Data and Control Structures in Solidity

Ethereum Smart Contracts with Solidity: Build Decentralized Apps

Course: 1 Hour, 18 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Enhancing the Voting App Smart Contract
• Interacting with the Voting App
• Events
• Creating a Bank with a Smart Contract - Part
• Creating a Bank with a Smart Contract - Part
• Creating a Bank with a Smart Contract - Part
• Creating a Bank with a Smart Contract - Part
• Setting up an Escrow with a Smart Contract - Part
• Setting up an Escrow with a Smart Contract - Part
• Setting up an Escrow with a Smart Contract - Part
• Exercise: Building Decentralized Apps with Solidity

Smart Contracts & Hyperledger Fabric: Foundations of Hyperledger Fabric

Course: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes

• Course Overview
• An Overview of Blockchains
• Public Blockchain Implementations
• The Goals of the Hyperledger Project
• Hyperledger Frameworks
• Setting up a Fabric Network from Scratch
• A Tech-Based Approach to Building a Fabric Network
• Introducing Hyperledger Composer
• Network Definition Files in Hyperledger Composer
• Hyperledger Composer Playground
• Deploying a Fabric Network Definition
• Exercise: Fundamentals of Hyperledger Fabric

Smart Contracts & Hyperledger Fabric: Setting Up a Hyperledger Fabric Network

Course: 1 Hour, 19 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Application Portability
• Containers and Docker
• Running Docker Containers
• Fabric Prerequisite Installation - Docker and Go
• Installation Files for Hyperledger Fabric
• Exploring the Downloaded Fabric Artifacts
• The configtx.yaml File
• The crypto-config.yaml File
• The Connection Profile
• Exercise: Setting Up Hyperledger Fabric

Smart Contracts & Hyperledger Fabric: Working with Fabric Chaincode in Golang

Course: 1 Hour, 7 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Generating the Genesis Block and Channel
• The docker-compose File - Part
• The docker-compose File - Part
• Provisioning the Fabric Network
• Writing Chaincode in Go - Part
• Writing Chaincode in Go - Part
• Deploying Chaincode
• Exercise: Fabric Chaincode in Golang

Smart Contracts & Hyperledger Fabric: Working with Fabric Chaincode in NodeJS

Course: 43 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Fabric Network Setup
• Chaincode in Node.js - Init and Invoke
• Chaincode in Node.js - Add and Retrieve
• Chaincode in Node.js - the package.json File
• Chaincode Deployment
• Exercise: Fabric Chaincode in Node.js

Smart Contracts & Hyperledger Fabric: Hyperledger Fabric Web App

Course: 1 Hour

• Course Overview
• Creating an Admin User for a Fabric Network
• Creating an Application User for a Fabric Network
• Querying Deployed Chaincode from a Node App
• Fabric Web App - Building the Backend
• Fabric Web App - Building the UI
• Testing the Fabric App
• Exercise: Building a Fabric Web App

Smart Contracts & Hyperledger Fabric: Hyperledger Composer Playground

Course: 1 Hour, 32 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Hyperledger Composer Playground on the Cloud
• The Transaction Processing Script
• The ACL File
• Deploying the Blockchain Network
• Testing the Blockchain Network
• Building a Business Blockchain Network from Scratch
• Defining Resources and Transactions
• Creating Identities and Instances of Resources
• Testing Permissions and Transactions - Part 1
• Testing Permissions and Transactions - Part 2
• Exporting the Network Definition
• Exercise: Hyperledger Composer Playground

Smart Contracts & Hyperledger Fabric: Web Apps for Hyperledger Composer Networks

Course: 1 Hour, 13 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Installing the Pre-requisites
• Provisioning a Hyperledger Fabric Network
• Defining and Installing the Network Definition
• The Composer REST Server
• Testing the REST API calls
• Invoking Transactions from the REST Server
• Setting up the Hyperledger Composer Angular App
• Testing the Composer Angular App
• Exercise: Web Apps for Hyperledger Composer

Online Mentor

You can reach your Mentor by entering chats or submitting an email.

Final Exam assessment

Estimated duration: 90 minutes

Practice Labs: Blockchain Smart Contracts Programmer (estimated duration: 8 hours)

Practice Smart Contracts Programmer tasks such as creating smart contracts in Remix, adding function to a smart contract, and testing, reviewing, and extending a smart contract. Then, test your skills by answering assessment questions after creating a Hyperledger fabric chain and creating queries fabric chaincode. This lab provides access to tools typically used by Smart Contracts Programmer.

Track 3: Blockchain Engineer

In this track of the Blockchain journey, the focus is the Hyperledge Fabric and Working with the Truffle Suite.
Content:
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Truffle Suite: Introduction

Course: 1 Hour, 34 Minutes

• Course Overview
• An Overview of Ethereum
• Ethereum Smart Contracts
• Contrasting Traditional and Smart Contracts
• Building and Running Smart Contracts
• Simplifying Smart Contract Development
• An Overview of the Truffle Suite
• The Need for Ganache
• Features of Ganache
• Compiling Truffle Project Smart Contracts
• Testing & Deploying Truffle Project Smart Contracts
• Drizzle
• Exercise: Introduction to the Truffle Suite

Truffle Suite: BlockBuilding Private Blockchain Networks with Ganache

Course: 1 Hour, 8 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Developing a Smart Contract Using Solidity
• Deploying and Interacting with a Smart Contract
• Testing the Features of a Smart Contract
• Installing Ganache
• Connecting to Ganache
• Deploying a Smart Contract to a Ganache Network
• Viewing Transaction Data in Ganache
• Exercise: Private Blockchain Networks with Ganache

Truffle Suite: Automating Development with the Truffle Framework

Course: 1 Hour, 1 Minute

• Course Overview
• Initializing a Truffle Project
• Exploring a Truffle Project
• Building Smart Contracts in a Truffle Project
• Writing a Test for a Truffle Project
• Executing Truffle Tests
• Grouping Test Cases into Suites
• Deploying Contracts in a Truffle Project
• Exercise: The Truffle Framework

Truffle Suite: Using Drizzle to Build Decentralized Apps

Course: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Initializing a React Application
• Importing a Smart Contract into a React Application
• Defining Contract Interactions
• Configuring MetaMask to use Ganache Network
• Testing the React Application
• Initializing a Drizzle Application
• Coding the Top-Level Component of the Drizzle App
• Invoking Functions from a Drizzle App
• Invoking Transactions from a Drizzle App
• Testing the Drizzle Application
• Exercise: Building dApps with Drizzle

Blockchain & Hyperledger Fabric: An Overview of Blockchain Technology

Course: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes

• Course Overview
• An Overview of Blockchains
• Blockchain Integrity
• Centralized and Decentralized Ledgers
• A Ledger Use Case: Supply Chain Management
• Blockchains as a Distributed Ledger
• Cryptographic Hashing in Blockchains
• Chains of Blocks
• The Need for Smart Contracts
• Characteristics of Smart Contracts
• Exercise: An Introduction to Blockchains

Blockchain & Hyperledger Fabric: An Overview of Hyperledger

Course: 52 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Blockchain Implementations
• The Limitations of Ethereum
• The Origins of Hyperledger
• Hyperledger Frameworks
• Hyperledger Tools
• Exercise: The Hyperledger Project

Blockchain & Hyperledger Fabric: The Hyperledger Fabric

Course: 1 Hour, 5 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Blockchains for Enterprises
• Introducing Hyperledger Fabric
• Transaction Flow in Fabric: Execution
• Transaction Flow in Fabric: Order and Validate
• Channels in Fabric
• Identities in Fabric
• Exercise: Describing the Hyperledger Fabric

Online Mentor

You can reach your Mentor by entering chats or submitting an email.

Final Exam assessment

Estimated duration: 90 minutes

Practice Labs: Blockchain Engineer (estimated duration: 8 hours)

Practice blockchain engineering tasks by creating and working with a smart contract using Truffle, Ganache, Drizzle and React.js. Then, test your skills by answering assessment questions. This lab provides access to tools typically used by Blockchain Engineers.

Track 4: Blockchain Solutions Architect

In this track of the Blockchain journey, the focus is building decentralized applications and building blockchains on the cloud.
Content:
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Building Decentralized Applications for Ethereum: An Introduction to dApps

Course: 58 Minutes

• Course Overview
• The Case for Blockchains
• Recording Transactions with Blockchains
• An Introduction to Decentralized Applications
• The Truffle Suite
• Ethereum Tokens
• The ERC-20 Token Standard
• Exercise: Introduction to Ethereum dApps

Building Decentralized Applications for Ethereum: Building the Back End

Course: 1 Hour, 24 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Creating a Private Ethereum Network with Ganache
• Setting up the Metamask Plugin
• Installing the Truffle Framework
• Developing a Crowdfunding Contract - Part
• Developing a Crowdfunding Contract - Part
• Defining the Deployment Process
• Writing a Test Script for a Smart Contract
• Running the Tests for a Smart Contract
• Deploying Smart Contracts to an Ethereum Network
• Exercise: Building dApp Back Ends

Building Decentralized Applications for Ethereum: Building the Front End

Course: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Installing React and Drizzle
• Building the React App - The Root Component
• Building the React App - Retrieving Contract Data
• Building the React App - Contract Interactions
• Starting the Web Application
• Invoke Transactions from the Web Application
• Testing the dApp - the Success Scenario
• Redeploying the Contract
• Testing the dApp - the Failure Scenario
• Exercise: Building dApp UIs

Building Decentralized Applications for Ethereum: Bespoke Ethereum Tokens

Course: 49 Minutes

• Course Overview
  Event Definitions for an ERC20 Token
  Function Definitions for an ERC20 Token
  Deploying the Token Contract
  Testing Token Operations - Part
  Testing Token Operations - Part
  Exercise: Defining Ethereum Tokens

Cloud Blockchains: An Introduction to Blockchain on the Cloud

Course: 1 Hour, 12 Minutes

• Course Overview
• The Case for Blockchains
• Blockchain Solutions
• An Enterprise-Grade Blockchain Solution
• Blockchains on the Cloud
• Azure Blockchain Workbench - Part
• Azure Blockchain Workbench - Part
• Amazon Managed Blockchain
• Exercise: Introduction to Blockchain on the Cloud

Cloud Blockchains: Single Organization Networks on Amazon Managed Blockchain

Course: 1 Hour, 40 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Setting up the Client User
• Setting up a Security Group
• Setting up an EC2 Instance
• Creating a Network with AWS Managed Blockchain
• Connecting to the Client
• Installing the Prerequisites for the Fabric Client
• Configuring the Fabric CA Client
• Fabric Chaincode - Part
• Fabric Chaincode - Part
• Provisioning the Peer Node
• Provisioning the Channel
• Deploying and Interacting with Chaincode
• Exercise: Single Organization Networks

Cloud Blockchains: Multi-Organization Networks on Amazon Managed Blockchain

Course: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes

• Course Overview
• User and Security Group for Organization Two
• Inviting a Member to the Blockchain Network
• Accepting an Invitation to a Blockchain Network
• Configuring the Client for the Second Organization
• Setting up Fabric CA for the Second Organization
• Transferring Certificates between Organizations
• Creating a Multi-Organization Fabric Channel
• Instantiating Chaincode on the New Channel
• Testing the Multi-Organization Fabric Channel
• Exercise: Multi-Organization Blockchain Networks

Cloud Blockchains: Building Apps on the Azure Blockchain Workbench

Course: 1 Hour, 31 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Deploying Azure Blockchain Workbench
• Setting up Members for the Blockchain Network
• Setting up the Azure Blockchain Workbench UI
• Developing a Solidity Smart Contract
• Building the Application Configuration File
• Deploying the Blockchain Application
• Instantiating a Contract
• Contract Interaction - Requesting the Asset
• Adding a Member to a Deployed Application
• Contract Interaction - Terminating the Asset
• Exercise: Azure Blockchain Workbench

Online Mentor

You can reach your Mentor by entering chats or submitting an email.

Final Exam assessment

Estimated duration: 90 minutes

Practice Labs: Blockchain Solutions Architect (estimated duration: 8 hours)

Practice Blockchain Solutions Architect tasks such as designing and implementing an Ethereum Smart Contract. Then, test your skills by answering assessment questions after creating a token on the Ethereum network. This lab provides access to tools typically used by Blockchain Solutions Architects.

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