Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Courses and Certifications

Crypto And The Blockchain

Explore the crypto ecosystem through expert debate: blockchain basics, Web3 ownership, DAOs, NFTs, stablecoins, market volatility, and the case for regulation.

• MasterClass
• 3 hours 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

University at Buffalo;  SUNY

Blockchain Basics

7775 ratings at Coursera

Learn how blockchains work: examine the Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols, build an Ethereum test chain to mine and transfer Ethers, and study hashing, asymmetric encryption, and consensus.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Blockchain Technologies

2501 ratings at Coursera

Understand how blockchains create trust without intermediaries: seven design principles, public versus permissioned ledgers, zero-knowledge privacy, ecosystem stakeholders, and ten implementation challenges.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Blockchain Revolution

3072 ratings at Coursera

Learn how blockchain works, explore cryptoasset categories and transactions, examine disrupted business models and financial services, and produce a blockchain opportunity analysis for your own industry.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

19 ratings

Learn how Bitcoin works technically: cryptographic primitives, decentralized consensus, transactions and scripts, key storage, mining economics, anonymity, altcoins, and regulation.

• Coursera
• 11 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

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Career Certificate

Blockchain Revolution in Financial Services

1035 ratings at Coursera

Blockchain is the first native digital medium for value: explore cryptoassets, decentralized finance, and global payment transformations, and build a strategic action plan for financial services.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Blockchain Business Models

404 ratings at Coursera

Learn how blockchain creates value through tokenization: cryptographic hashing, digital signatures, Bitcoin and Ethereum, Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, plus evaluating cryptoventures and regulation.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Transacting on the Blockchain

925 ratings at Coursera

Explore how blockchain reshapes value exchange: nine cryptoasset types including NFTs, stablecoins and CBDCs, smart contracts, self-sovereign identity, and disruption of financial services.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Blockchain

236 ratings at Coursera

Learn how blockchain works from the ground up: cryptography and hashing, Merkle trees, and the decentralized peer-to-peer transaction processing behind cryptocurrencies.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Digital Assets: Foundations, Markets, and Regulation

Explore digital assets end to end: distributed ledgers and consensus, stablecoin design and the TerraUSD collapse, ecosystem use cases, and regulation from MiCA to the Ripple and FTX cases.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design

21 ratings

This course looks at the design of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and how they function in practice, focusing on cryptography, game theory, and network architecture.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 25 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Blockchain

180 ratings at Coursera

Explore blockchain fundamentals: its software and network architecture, peer-to-peer trust and integrity, digital currency transactions, and how well bitcoin has held its value.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

ConsenSys Academy

Blockchain: Foundations and Use Cases

846 ratings at Coursera

Learn how blockchains work — hash functions, public key cryptography, blocks, nodes and consensus — then explore Ethereum, smart contracts, tokens and business use cases.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Cryptography and Hashing Overview

54 ratings at Coursera

Explore how blockchains track ownership through electronic ledgers, apply a hashing algorithm to a character string, and use cryptography to verify a simulated email's authenticity.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Blockchain for Financial Services

695 ratings at Coursera

Learn how blockchain works — mining, hashing, proof-of-work, public key cryptography, the double-spend problem — plus seven design principles, ecosystem stakeholders, and ten implementation challenges.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course