The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, announced that this coming October 6 will launch the second version of the Diploma in Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Value Chain, focused on the “smart contract”, as made known by the Chilean university through its website.
The diploma will be held online, and it is the second version of the four diploma courses that the Catholic University of Chile About this technology disruptiva.
As detailed on the website, The course will be focused on professionals in the information technology area interested in knowing the fundamentals, potentialities and possible applications of technology “block chain”, Including smart contracts and the cryptocurrencies, with the aim of specializing participants in the potential of this technology, so that they are capable of revolutionizing digital transactions and can apply it in different business contexts.
Methodology
It will have an hourly load of 102 chronological hours and it will take place from Monday to Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m., under the streaming and networking mode. At a cost of 2.5 million Chilean pesos for residents of the country and USD 3,165 for the rest of the world.
In the second version of the diploma, participants will learn about the basics of smart contracts, as well as gain the skills to create and write simple contracts. Likewise, it will work with the two most popular platforms such as Hyperledger and Ethereum, which will allow students to understand the concepts that involve these platforms in specific cases, as well as Ether as a currency and merchandise system.
The course also covers the study of Ethereum accounts, transactions, smart contracts, mining of the cryptocurrency ether, Ethereum forks, Ethereum Virtual Machine, The Solidity Programming Language, as well as contract structures, smart contracts with Solidity and advanced smart contracts.
Those who complete the course “Smart Contracts: Development and implementation”, They will be able to apply blockchain technology in different business areas, identify platforms for the development of cryptocurrency networks, create and implement simple contracts on a particular platform and classify different blockchain-based technologies that already exist in the market.
Academic body
The house of study makes available for this second diploma five expert professors in the field, who will be in charge of imparting knowledge about blockchain technology, the effectiveness of its implementation to automate business processes (smart contracts) and how this technology can support value chains in which various actors participate.
Among the experts are, Marco Alarcón, Head of Architecture of the Santiago Stock Exchange, Patricio López, expert developer of software and specialist in Ethereum and blockchain technology, as well as the Doctor of Computing from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Domagoj Vrgoc, Alejandro Echeverría, Ph.D in Computer Science and Jaime Navón Cohen, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad Católica and one of the heads of the Diploma in Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Value Chains.
The head of the program, Jaime Navón Cohen, stated that “Blockchain technology has so far only been used in cryptocurrencies, however it is a sufficiently general purpose technology to have a potential for use in numerous other applications that are beginning to appear ”.
Likewise, he maintains that with the use of blockchain technology, the problem of financial identity could be solved, which has not yet been solved, he also assured that with the completion of the diploma, students will take everything they need to understand the technology blockchain and will be able to face the challenges and extraordinary projects that “they will surely appear in the next few years “.