On this page, we will provide a list of references used in this course, as well as additional recommended resources. The references and resources will be organized per chapter, and they will be quickly accessible from anywhere in the course - just click on the Recommended Resources tab.
Chapter 1. Discovering Blockchain Technologies
- Muneeb Ali, The next wave of computing, medium - https://medium.com/@muneeb/the-next-wave-of-computing-743295b4bc73
- Hyperledger Sawtooth documentation - https://sawtooth.hyperledger.org/docs/core/releases/latest/introduction.html
- Hyperledger website - https://hyperledger.org/about
- Vinay Gupta, A Brief History of Blockchain - https://hbr.org/2017/02/a-brief-history-of-blockchain
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies - http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001802/ch07.html#_structure_of_a_block)
- Bettina Warburg, How the blockchain will radically transform the economy - https://www.ted.com/talks/bettina_warburg_how_the_blockchain_will_radically_transform_the_economy
- WEF, The Global Risks Report 2016 - https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2016
- Antony Lewis, A gentle introduction to immutability of blockchains - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gentle-introduction-immutability-blockchains-antony-lewis/
- Elena Mesropyan, 21 Companies Leveraging Blockchain for Identity Management and Authentication - https://letstalkpayments.com/22-companies-leveraging-blockchain-for-identity-management-and-authentication/
- Daniel Palmer, 7 Cool Decentralized Apps Being Built on Ethereum - https://www.coindesk.com/7-cool-decentralized-apps-built-ethereum/
- Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations (Bitcoin) - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
- Eight Things Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts Probably Won't Tell You - http://www.ofnumbers.com/2017/09/21/eight-things-cryptocurrency-enthusiasts-probably-wont-tell-you/
- AngelList - Blockchain Startups - https://angel.co/blockchains
- Vitalik Buterin, Introduction to Cryptoeconomics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKqdjaH1dRo
- Navroop Sahdev, The Tokenization of the Economy: ICOs and the implications for Cryptoeconomics, Coala Working Paper, 2017
- Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts, The Blockchain Economy: A beginner's guide to institutional cryptocurrencies - https://medium.com/@cryptoeconomics/the-blockchain-economy-a-beginners-guide-to-institutional-cryptoeconomics-64bf2f2beec4
- Crypocurrency Market Capitalizations (Ethereum) - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/
- Stephan Tual, What is Ethereum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clw-qf1sUZg
- Ethereum Documentation - http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/introduction/web3.html
- Augur - https://augur.net/
- Digix - https://digix.global/
- Maker - https://makerdao.com/
- RSK - http://www.rsk.co/
- JP Aumasson and Phillipp Jovanovic, Blockchains in 2016: status quo and scaling challenges - https://www.kudelskisecurity.com/sites/default/files/files/kudelski_Security_blockchain_20161213.pdf
- Ofir Beigel, what is Proof of Work/Proof of Stake ? - https://99bitcoins.com/proof-of-work-proof-of-stake/
- Satyakam Chakravarty, Blockchain consensus algorithm: Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-consensus-algorithm-proof-of-work-satyakam-chakravarty/
- bitcoinwiki, Proof of burn - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_burn
- Adrian Colyer, Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance - https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/05/18/practical-byzantine-fault-tolerance/
- Phillipp Jovanovic, ByzCoin: Securely Scaling Blockchains - http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/08/04/byzcoin/
- Hyperledger Architecture, Volume 1 - https://www.hyperledger.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HyperLedger_Arch_WG_Paper_1_Consensus.pdf
- Amy Castor, A (Short) Guide to Blockchain Consensus Protocols - https://www.coindesk.com/short-guide-blockchain-consensus-protocols/
- Consensus achieved using Proof-of-Work - https://mastanbtc.github.io/blockchainnotes/consensustypes/
- Chain Core - https://chain.com/technology/
- Richard Gendal Brown, Introducing R3 Corda™: A Distributed Ledger Designed for Financial Services - http://www.r3cev.com/blog/2016/4/4/introducing-r3-corda-a-distributed-ledger-designed-for-financial-services
- Corda - https://www.corda.net/
- Quorum - https://www.jpmorgan.com/country/US/EN/Quorum
- Martin Rosulek, How IOTA makes bright future for Internet of Things - https://medium.com/@MartinRosulek/how-iota-makes-future-for-internet-of-things-af14fd77d2a3
- Roger Aitken, IOTA's Bitfinex Listing Surges To $1.5B Record-Breaking 'Crypto' Capitalization On Market Debut - https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2017/06/15/iotas-bitfinex-listing-surges-to-1-5b-record-breaking-crypto-capitalization-on-market-debut/#6cf94dbd75a5
- Advait Deshpande, Katherine Stewart, Louise Lepetit, Salil Gunashekar, Distributed Ledger Technologies/Blockchain: Challenges, opportunities and the prospects for standards - https://www.bsigroup.com/PageFiles/508003/BSI_Blockchain_DLT_Web.pdf
- Clare Naden, Blockchain technology set to grow further with international standards in pipeline - https://www.iso.org/news/Ref2188.htm
- ISO/TC 307, Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies - https://www.iso.org/committee/6266604.html
- Navroop K. Sahdev, Crowdfunding Meets Blockchain - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3047682
- SEC, Investor Bulletin: Initial Coin Offerings (July 25, 2017) - https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_coinofferings
- Saheli Roy Choudhury, China bans companies from raising money through ICOs, asks local regulators to inspect 60 major platforms - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/04/chinese-icos-china-bans-fundraising-through-initial-coin-offerings-report-says.html
- Why Hyperledger? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dimE7DI6VLI
- Jeff John Roberts, IBM-Backed Hyperledger Releases New Blockchain Code 'Fabric' - http://fortune.com/2017/07/11/ibm-blockchain-hyperledger-fabric/
- What makes the Hyperledger Project unique? - Developer Perspectives On Blockchain series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Os5R-CMeg
- Hyper Ledger pitch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG-maoz01gM
- Hyperledger Fabric Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgFthehLNJ4
- An Introduction to Hyperledger Fabric and IBM Blockchain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuXH9OYXcQQ
- Albert Szmigielski, Distributed vs. Decentralized Networks - http://blog.cryptoiq.ca/?p=26
- Ken Mafli, Mega Data Breaches Could Drive the Blockchain Revolution - https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/data-breaches-blockchain-revolution/
- Ameer Rosic, 5 Blockchain Applications That Are Shaping Your Future - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ameer-rosic-/5-blockchain-applications_b_13279010.html
- Vitalik Buterin, The Meaning of Decentralization - https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274
- CNBC, Ethereum Vs. Bitcoin: What Sets Them Apart? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UBk1e5qnr4
- Brian Patrick Eha, The race to connect smart contracts to the real world - https://www.americanbanker.com/news/the-race-to-connect-smart-contracts-to-the-real-world
- Kyle Torpey, Ethereum style smart contracts are coming to Bitcoin in June -https://bravenewcoin.com/news/ethereum-style-smart-contracts-are-coming-to-bitcoin-in-june/
- Daniel Zakrisson, If Code Should Be Law We Need Better Development Standards - https://medium.com/iconominet/if-code-should-be-law-we-need-better-development-standards-19e28a3a15f2
- Michael Mainelli, Which Way for Blockchain Standards in 2017? - https://www.coindesk.com/which-way-for-blockchain-standards-in-2017/
Chapter 2. Introduction to Hyperledger
- https://www.hyperledger.org
- Meet the TSC: Arnaud Le Hors, IBM - https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2017/09/12/3431
- Hyperledger Architecture, Volume 1 - https://www.hyperledger.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HyperLedger_Arch_WG_Paper_1_Consensus.pdf
- Hyperledger Fabric Documentation - https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- John Palfreyman, Open Innovation, blockchain & hyperledger - https://www.ibm.com/blogs/insights-on-business/government/open-innovation-blockchain-hyperledger/
- ABCs of Open Governance - https://hyperledger.org/blog/2017/09/06/abcs-of-open-governance
- Hyperledger Iroha - https://hyperledger.org/projects/iroha
- YAC: vote-based consensus algorithm for private blockchain - https://www.overleaf.com/read/wzhwjzbjvrzn#/40115559/
- Hyperledger Sawtooth - https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/sawtooth
- Hyperledger Fabric - https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/fabric
- Breach Level Index - http://breachlevelindex.com/
- Privacy by design - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design
- Hyperledger Indy - https://sovrin.org/
- Hyperledger Burrow - https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/hyperledger-burrow
- Hyperledger Burrow - https://monax.io/platform/db/
- Hyperledger Cello - https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/cello
- Hyperledger Says Hello to Cello - https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2017/01/17/hyperledger-says-hello-to-cello
- Hyperledger Explorer - https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/explorer
- Hyperledger Composer - https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/composer
- Hyperledger Composer Overview - https://www.hyperledger.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Hyperledger-Composer-Overview.pdf
- Introduction to Hyperledger Composer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvOQp8r0xo
- Hyperledger Fabric Youtube Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0MZ85B_96CH7wvtrRzV7SvtRY0sI0DEg
- Roger Strukhoff, Hyperledger Incubation: Burrow Integrates Ethereum Virtual Machine - https://www.altoros.com/blog/hyperledger-incubation-burrow-integrates-permissioned-ethereum-virtual-machine/
- Carlo Gutierrez, Hyperledger Meets Ethereum: Integration and the Future - https://www.altoros.com/blog/hyperledger-meets-ethereum-integration-future/
- General Data Protection Regulation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
- Drummond Reed, Jason Law, and Daniel Hardman, The Technical Foundations of Sovrin - https://sovrin.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/The-Technical-Foundations-of-Sovrin.pdf
- Phillip J. Windley, How Sovrin Works - https://sovrin.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/How-Sovrin-Works.pdf
- Roger Strukhoff, Visualizing Blockchain Operations with Hyperledger Explorer - https://www.altoros.com/blog/visualizing-blockchain-operations-with-hyperledger-explorer/
- Ian Allison, Hyperledger Project announces business blockchain Composer - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hyperledger-project-announces-business-blockchain-composer-1619843
Chapter 3. The Promise of Business Blockchain Technologies
- WTO, Trade finance and SMEs: Bridging the gaps in provision - https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/tradefinsme_e.pdf
- Karen Gilchrist, Fake smartphone sales cost global industry $48 billion - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/28/fake-smartphone-sales-cost-global-industry-48-billion.html
- Pamela Ambler, China Is Facing An Epidemic Of Counterfeit And Contraband Wine - https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamelaambler/2017/07/27/china-is-facing-an-epidemic-of-counterfeit-and-contraband-wine/#7e85a1325843
- Laura Shin, Republic Of Georgia To Pilot Land Titling On Blockchain With Economist Hernando De Soto, BitFury - https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/04/21/republic-of-georgia-to-pilot-land-titling-on-blockchain-with-economist-hernando-de-soto-bitfury/#4686b55844da
- What is proof of existence? - https://poex.io/about
- Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
- Guy Brandon, Can the blockchain scale? - https://due.com/blog/can-the-blockchain-scale/
- Lightning Network - https://lightning.network/
- NPP, Federal Spending: Where Does the Money Go - https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/
- ONC - https://www.healthit.gov/
- Hyperledger Wiki, Use Case Inventory - https://wiki.hyperledger.org/groups/requirements/use-case-inventory
- GitHub, Hyperledger Composer Sample Models - https://github.com/hyperledger/composer-sample-models
- GitHub, Hyperledger Composer Sample Networks - https://github.com/hyperledger/composer-sample-networks
- IBM Blockchain, Leverage blockchain to transform your business and disrupt your industry - https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/for-business.html
- Hyperledger Fabric Documentation, Use Cases - http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usecases.html
- Kathryn Harrison and Simon Stone, Accelerating Blockchain Development with Hyperledger Composer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRlm4uY_9pA&t=204s
- Martin Valenta and Phillipp Sandner, Comparison of Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric and Corda - https://medium.com/@philippsandner/comparison-of-ethereum-hyperledger-fabric-and-corda-21c1bb9442f6
Chapter 6. Introduction to Hyperledger Sawtooth
- Nishan Degnarain, Can technology help us tackle illegal fishing? - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/can-technology-help-tackle-illegal-fishing/
- IUU Tuna Traceability Declaration Launched at the Ocean Conference - https://www.nature.org/newsfeatures/pressreleases/iuu-tuna-traceability-declaration-launched-at-oceans-conference.xml
- Dominic Waughray, Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration: Stopping illegal tuna from coming to market - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/tuna-2020-traceability-declaration-stopping-illegal-tuna-from-coming-to-market/
- Hyperledger Sawtooth - https://sawtooth.hyperledger.org/docs/core/releases/latest/architecture/journal.html and https://sawtooth.hyperledger.org/docs/core/releases/latest/architecture.html
Chapter 7. Introduction to Hyperledger Fabric
- Nishan Degnarain, Can technology help us tackle illegal fishing? - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/can-technology-help-tackle-illegal-fishing/
- IUU Tuna Traceability Declaration Launched at the Ocean Conference - https://www.nature.org/newsfeatures/pressreleases/iuu-tuna-traceability-declaration-launched-at-oceans-conference.xml
- Dominic Waughray, Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration: Stopping illegal tuna from coming to market - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/tuna-2020-traceability-declaration-stopping-illegal-tuna-from-coming-to-market/
- Hyperledger Fabric Documentation - https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/