(01710217): Blockchain Technology and Application (Spring 2023)

Time: Tuesday 14:00-17:00

Location: 3201, Teaching Building, Daxing

Class web site: https://huipingsun.github.io/bct202302

Class live: No

Instructor: Huiping Sun (sunhp(at)ss.pku.edu.cn)

TA: Bingyu Liu, Haotian Zhao

Date

Topics

Readings

February 21

00. Course Overview [Slides]

No

February 21

01. Blockchain Technology Overview [Slides]

• Shashank Mohan Jain, A Brief Introduction to Web3: Decentralized Web Fundamentals for App Development. Charpter 1: Decentralization and Web3. APRESS, 2023.
• Thomas Stackpole, What is Web3?. Harvard Business Review. 2022.05.
• Mastering Blockchain (2nd Edition). Charpter 1: Blockchain 101.
• Manav Gupta. IBM Blockchain Dummies . John Wiley & Sons. 2017
• Shashank Mohan Jain, A Brief Introduction to Web3: Decentralized Web Fundamentals for App Development. Charpter 2: Blockchain. APRESS, 2023.

February 28

02. Blockchain Platforms: Bitcoin I [Slides]

• Textbook. Charpter 3: Mechanics of Bitcoin.
• Textbook. Charpter 4: How to Store and Use Bitcoins.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 1: Introduction.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 2: How Bitcoin Works.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 4: Keys, Addresses.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 5: Wallets.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 6: Transactions.
• Bitcoin.org. 2023.

March 07

03. Blockchain Platforms: Bitcoin II [Slides]

• Textbook. Charpter 5: Bitcoin Mining.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 7: Advanced Transaction and Scripting.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 8: The Bitcoin Network.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 9: The Blockchain.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 10: Mining and Consensus.
• Bitcoin Developer Guides @ Bitcoin.org. 2023.

March 14

04. Blockchain Platforms: Bitcoin III [Slides]

• Textbook. Charpter 8: Alternative Mining Puzzles.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 12: Blockchain Applications.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Appendix D: Segregated Witness.
• Zhilai Mao, etc.Research on Blockchain Performance Scalability and Security . Netinfo Security,(2020,20(3):56-64,Chinese).
• Abdelatif Hafid, etc.Scaling Blockchains: A Comprehensive Survey . IEEE ACCESS 2020.
• Yanan Liu, etc.OverlapShard: Overlap-based Sharding Mechanism . 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'2021).

March 21

05. Blockchain Platform: Ethereum I , Smart Contract

• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 1: What is Ethereum?
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 2: Ethereum Basics.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 3: Ethereum Clients.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 4: Cryptography.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 5: Wallets.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 6: Transcations.
• Ethereum Developer Resources @ Ethereum.org. 2023.

March 28

06. Blockchain Platform: Ethereum II , DAPPs]

• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 10: Tokens.
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 12: Decentralized Applications (DApps).
• Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps. Charpter 13: The Ethereum Virtual Machine.
• Ethereum Developer Resources @ Ethereum.org. 2023.
• Ethereum EVM illustrated. 2023.

April 04

07. Blockchain Applications I [Slides]

• Textbook. Charpter 9: Bitcoin as a Platform.
• Textbook. Charpter 11: Decentralized Institutions: The Future of Bitcoin.
• Mastering Bitcoin (2nd Edition). Charpter 12: Blockchain Applications.
• Blockchain Technology and its Potential in Taxes. Deloitte. 2017.
• Valentina Gatteschi etc. To Blockchain or Not to Blockchain: That Is the Question. IT Professional Magazine. 2018.
• Scott Ruoti etc. Blockchain Technology: What is itGood For ？ ACM Queue. 2020.

April 11

08. Blockchain Mechanism: Consensus I [Slides]

• Jie Xu etc. A Survey of Blockchain Consensus Protocols. ACM Computing Surveys. 2023.
• Xin Wang etc. BFT in Blockchains: From Protocols to Use Cases. ACM Computing Surveys. 2022.

April 11

08. Project Proposal I: [SocialFi, DeFi, Consensus,]

NO

April 18

09. Blockchain Mechanism: Consensus II [Slides]

• Leslie Lamport. Paxos Made Simple. ACM SIGACT News (Distributed Computing Column) . 2001.
• Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout. In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 2014.
• Miguel Castro and Barbara Liskov. Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation. 1999.
• Maofan Yin etc. HotStuff: BFT Consensus with Linearity and Responsiveness.ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. 2019.

April 18

08. Project Proposal II: [Witness]

NO

April 25

10. Blockchain Platform: IPFS & FABRIC [Slides]

• IPFS.
• FileCoin.
• ProtoSchool.
• Juan Benet.
• HyperLedger.
• HyperLedger FABRIC.
• FABRIC: A Blockchain Platform for the Enterprise.

May 09

11. Blockchain Mechanism: Scalability [Slides]

• Zhilai Mao, etc.Research on Blockchain Performance Scalability and Security . Netinfo Security,(2020,20(3):56-64,Chinese).
• Abdelatif Hafid, etc.Scaling Blockchains: A Comprehensive Survey . IEEE ACCESS 2020.
• Louis Tremblay Thibault, etc.Blockchain Scaling Using Rollups: A Comprehensive Survey . IEEE ACCESS 2022.
• Ethereum Scaling.

May 16

12. Blockchain Application: DeFi [Slides]

TBD

May 23

13. Blockchain Mechanism: Regulation [Slides]

TBD

May 30

14. Blockchain Future: Challenges [Slides]

TBD

June 06

15. Blockchain Future: Trends [Slides]

TBD

June 13

16. Project Presentations [Slides]

No