Blockchain architects are ICT system architects that are specialized in blockchain-based solutions. They design architecture, components, modules, interfaces, and data for a decentralized system to meet specified requirements.
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The essential security principles, methods and controls for blockchain applications. Identity and access management, key management, data privacy, secure communication, smart contract security, and transaction endorsement are included as part of these principles.
The design structure of a peer-to-peer network of computers that functions as backend for systems and applications The network is constructed as a virtual machine without a central system that manages interactions among the nodes.
The study of essential blockchain components and concepts such as peer networks, smart contracts, memberships, events, ledgers, system integration, wallets, and system management.
The different mechanisms and their characteristics that ensure a transaction is propagated correctly in the distributed ledger.
Re-usable blockchain solution approaches including non-blocking user interface design, asynchronous API design, secure synchronization , time stamping, enterprise business integration, simple assets, and assets with rules.
Key historical facts and milestones in the blockchain technology as well as the implementations and applications that emerged on top of it.
Essential blockchain and cryptocurrency mining types and principles include ASIC mining, GPU mining, CPU mining, Cloud mining, and Mining pools.
The different levels of openness of a blockchain, their differences, and their advantages and disadvantages. Examples are permissionless, permissioned, and hybrid blockchains
The different integrated infrastructures, each with their own characteristics, that allow the development of blockchain applications. Examples are multichain, ehtereum, hyperledger, corda, ripple, openchain, etc.
Essential digital signature schemes include the RSA scheme, the El-Gamal scheme, Hash functions, Birthday Attacks, the Digital Signature Standard.
The terms used in blockchain sector which include account, attestation, block, Byzantine fault, coin, consensus, crypto-, decentralized application (DApp), DeFi, digital identity, distributed ledger, encryption, ether, fork, hyperledger, Merkle tree, mining, node, NFT, Proof of Authority, Proof of Stake, Proof of Work, public/private blockchain, trustless, validity proof, 51% attack, etc.
The study of diverse blockchain business models such as Blockchain-Based Software Products, Blockchain Development Platforms, Token Economy-Utility Token Business Model, P2P Blockchain Business Model, as well as Blockchain as a Service Business Model (BaaS).
The principles of information and data security. They include, among others, confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The knowledge of decentralised identifiers (DIDs). DIDs enable verifiable and decentralised digital identity related to different subjects determined by the controllers of these descentralised identifiers (e.g. an organisation, individual person, data model, abstract entity).
The process of providing, managing, auditing and securing digital identities to facilitate and enable approved, authentic requests or connections to view company data, services, systems, networks, and assets.
The knowledge of essential blockchain consensus protocols including Proof-of-Work (PoW), Proof-of-Stake (PoS), Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS), Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (pBFT).
The knowledge of the essential distributed ledger vulnerabilities including exchange hack, 51% attack, exitscam, extortion, DeFi, phishing, and drawing conclusions.
The distributed ledger theories, applied principles, architectures and systems, such as decentralization, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, trust, etc.
A software program in which the terms of a contract or transaction are directly coded. Smart contracts are executed automatically upon fulfilment of the terms and therefore require no third party to oversee and register the contract or transaction.
The study of the areas in which blockchain is implemented. Banking and Finance, Businesses (Supply Chain Management, Healthcare, Real Estate, Media, Energy), and Government are some examples of this application areas.
The knowledge of applications where blockchains can provide significant added value. They include applications in Banking and Finance (International Payments, Capital Markets, Trade Finance, Regulatory Finance and Audit, Money Laundering Protection, Insurance, Peer-to-Peer Transactions) and Business (Supply Chain Management, Healthcare, Real Estate, Media, Energy), Government (Identity Management, Voting, Taxes, Non-Profit Agencies, Compliance/Regulatory Oversight).
The process of transferring essential blockchain and, more generally, distributed ledger concepts to diverse application domains. For this, the domain-specific challenges, solutions, and consequences of introducing peer-to-peer transaction and consensus patterns need to be well understood.
Key legal regulations around the blockchain, both existing and emerging ones. In Europe, regulations around the Digital Euro and Crypt-Assets, as well as the Pan-European blockchain regulatory sandbox are considered most essential.
Processes which an organisation applies to improve efficiency, set new objectives and reach goals in a profitable and timely manner.
The process used to identify creative solutions to problem solving, by putting the user at its core. The five stages approach-empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test-are meant to challenge assumptions and iterate solutions that are better suited to the needs of the user.
Systems to store, process and spread information in digital form. They are hardware, software and networks, as well as the ways in which these can be employed.
The sequence of steps, such as planning, creating, testing and deploying and the models for the development and life-cycle management of a system.
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Analyse the functioning and performance of information systems in order to define their goals, architecture and services and set procedures and operations to meet end users requirements.
Create and document the structure of software products including components, coupling and interfaces. Ensure feasibility, functionality and compatibility with existing platforms.
Define the architecture, composition, components, modules, interfaces and data for integrated information systems (hardware, software and network), based on system requirements and specifications.
Design processes for blockchain-based systems which involves the clear identification of problems to be solved through blockchain, specifying the business requirements, identifying a consensus mechanism, choosing the most suitable blockchain platform, designing the blockchain nodes, planning the blockchain configuration, building blockchain APIs, designing user interfaces, and integrating accelerators for optimization.
Explain the consequences, impact, and implications of using blockchain technology on the business processes they drive, as well as on a larger scale, also including social and ecological aspects.
Identify blockchain innovation opportunities through the introduction of blockchain-based solutions, within a particular sector, but also across sectors. Understand the consequences of essential blockchain properties such as transparency and security for driving forward innovations.
Implement cryptographic constructs such as hash functions, symmetric-key algorithms, and asymmetric-key algorithms, in the context of specific applications.
Analyse, understand and apply the information provided regarding technical conditions.
Recognise opportunities for the introduction of blockchain-based solutions in various application domains (e.g., supply chains, product-service systems, finances, etc.), as well as their transformative potential in the concerned application area in terms of people’s skills, roles they need to fulfill, and processes these roles contribute to. Identify the added value blockchain-based solutions would bring with respect to traditional solutions.
Recognise risks associated with blockchain and cryptocurrency. Apart from standard risks associated with the business processes they are driving, blockchains bear value-transfer risks linked to the peer-to-peer type of value transfer. Risk are also linked to smart contracts as digital representations of more or less complex business relationships.
Analyse blockchain use cases in different sectors against their needs in terms of blockchain technology and architecture. Particularly, key blockchain use cases in Business, Finance and Banking such as International Payments, Peer-to-Peer Transactions, Capital Markets, Trade Finance or Regulatory Finance and Audit.
Develop formal and informal descriptions of the business processes and the organisational structure by using business process models, notations and tools.
Define and follow a roadmap for the introduction of blockchain in a particular application. Identify the key actions and roles required, as well as the essential milestones and deliverables to achieve.
Specify technical properties of goods, materials, methods, processes, services, systems, software and functionalities by identifying and responding to the particular needs that are to be satisfied according to customer requirements.
Develop new blockchain architectures that address properties and priorities as they are needed by specific applications. Argue the advantages and shortcomings of such new architectures with respect to existing ones.
Develop and integrate blockchain technology in new or existing ICT infrastructures, and understand the key challenges and solution approaches to this integration.
Evaluate blockchain architectures with respect to their suitability for specific applications, given the specific importance and priorities of architecture properties for these applications.
Explain the principles of the system architecture underlying distributed ledger technologies (DLT), in particular blockchain. Understand the DLT system architecture in terms of functional components in the core and service layers, the application service platform, DLT services, and external services. Understand the interaction of these components to provide DLT-based functions such as consensus mechanism functions, ledger management functions, smart contract mechanism functions, and distributed application management functions.
Outline blockchain-based identity management and access control in terms of how they work, what their benefits are compared to current solutions, and how they can be applied for specific applications.
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The technologies which enable access to hardware, software, data and services through remote servers and software networks irrespective of their location and architecture.
Digital and encrypted currency or medium of exchange with decentralized network grounded on blockchain technology, since the value of the cryptocurrency is not managed or maintained by central authorities, as is the case with the Euro.
The different software frameworks, and their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, that allow the development of decentralized applications on blockchain infrastructure. Examples are truffle, embark, epirus, openzeppelin, etc.
The conversion of electronic data into a format which is readable only by authorized parties which use key encryption techniques, such as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
The principles and fundamentals of service-oriented modelling for business and software systems that allow the design and specification of service-oriented business systems within a variety of architectural styles, such as enterprise architecture and application architecture.
The software packages, modules, web services and resources that cover a set of related functions and the databases where these reusable components can be found.
The science of analysing and making decisions based on raw data collected from various sources. Includes knowledge of techniques using algorithms that derive insights or trends from that data to support decision-making processes.
The study of statistical theory, methods and practices such as collection, organisation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of data including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments in order to forecast and plan work-related activities.
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Repair computer code by analysing testing results, locating the defects causing the software to output an incorrect or unexpected result and remove these faults.
Design a multi-tier cloud architecture solution, which tolerates faults and is fit for the workload and other business needs. Identify elastic and scalable computing solutions, select high-performing and scalable storage solutions, and choose high-performing database solutions. Identify cost-effective storage, computing, and database services in the cloud.
Create a first incomplete or preliminary version of a piece of software application to simulate some specific aspects of the final product.
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