Burak Öz, Felix Hoops, Jonas Gebele, Ulrich Gallersdörfer, and Florian Matthes
School of Computation, Information, and Technology
Technical University of Munich
{burak.oez, felix.hoops, jonas.gebele, ulrich.gallersdoerfer, matthes}@tum.de
https://wwwmatthes.in.tum.de/
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This GitHub-repository contains all contents of the lecture Blockchain-based Systems Engineering (IN2359), held regularly in the summer term at the Technical University of Munich, starting in 2018. About 900 students regularly enroll in the course.
- Lecture: Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes
- Exercises / Tutorials: Burak Öz, Felix Hoops, and Jonas Gebele
- Contact: Please open an issue / pull requests for comments. If you are interested in the .pptx-files, drop us an email.
In this lecture, we provide an overview of blockchain systems and systems engineering, focusing on the technical details and applications of blockchain systems. We introduce cryptographic hash functions and present their properties. Then the data structure and the working principles of the Bitcoin blockchain are investigated in detail. We analyze permissionless consensus and Sybil control mechanisms like Proof-of-Work (PoW) of Bitcoin and illustrate the mining scheme. Moreover, we inspect the risks, challenges, and limitations of the technology. Following this, we demonstrate the system architecture of the Ethereum blockchain with a focus on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and smart contracts. Subsequently, the Solidity language is explained in terms of syntax, types, and design. Ethereum decentralized applications (dApps) are illustrated with current standards and frameworks, and specifics to dApp developments are introduced. Alternative approaches to distributed ledger technologies in the enterprise space are also discussed. Accordingly, the Hyperledger project and the framework Fabric are unfolded. Further, we present an overview of the current state of the blockchain ecosystem with a focus on topics such as Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) & Decentralized Identity Management, Blockchain Scalability & Interoperability, and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) & Maximal Extractable Value (MEV).
| Content of Lecture | Content of Exercise |
|---|---|
| 0 & 1: Organization & Introduction | |
| 2: Cryptographic Basics | 2: Cryptographic Basics & Solution |
| 3: Bitcoin Basics | 3: Bitcoin Basics & Solution |
| 4: Consensus in Bitcoin | 4: Consensus in Bitcoin & Solution |
| 5: Bitcoin Evolution and Challenges | 5: Bitcoin Evolution and Challenges & Solution |
| 6: Ethereum Basics | 6: Ethereum Basics & Solution |
| 7: Ethereum Smart Contracts | 7: Ethereum Practical 1 & Solution |
| 8: Ethereum Design Patterns | 8: Ethereum Practical 2 & Solution |
| 9: Micro-Lecture Blockchain Scalability and Interoperability | 9: Ethereum Practical 3 & Solution |
| 9: Micro-Lecture DeFi, AMMs, and MEV | Bonus: Ethereum Practical 4 & Solution |
| 10: SSI & Decentralized IDM | 10: SSI & Decentralized IDM & Solution |
| 11: Hyperledger |
- 2018 version (4 ECTS, 60 minutes)
- 2019 version (5 ECTS, 90 minutes)
- 2020 version (5 ECTS, 90 minutes)
- 2021 version (5 ECTS, 90 minutes)
- 2022 version (5 ECTS, 90 minutes)
- 2023 version (5 ECTS, 90 minutes)
- 2024 version (5 ECTS, 90 minutes)
This work is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
We wish to thank Alexander Hefele, Kaan Uzdogan, Christian Ziegler, and Konstantin Kuchenmeister for supporting the lecture and all others which provided valuable feedback!
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