Blockchain Implementation and Regulation: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Implications (edX)

You’ll also learn about how blockchain's architecture entails elements such as networks, ledgers, and software, and gain an understanding of blockchain's business models and its implications for economic and financial development. Additionally, you’ll explore some of the challenges that affect blockchain technology, discover how the Lightning Network can counter some of these challenges, and consider the possibilities of a blockchain-enabled community.

This course is part of the Blockchain for Business Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

- Examine the regulatory frameworks behind blockchain.

- Identify how blockchain's architecture includes blockchain as a network, ledger, and software.

- Explore ways to adopt a blockchain application and examine how oracles and custodian services serve as off-chain solutions.

- Discuss blockchain's challenges of privacy and scalability, and how the Lightning Network addresses these.

- Predict what a blockchain-enabled society may look like.