Overview
Blockchain is a decentralised digital ledger with a growing list of records called blocks, which contain timestamp data, cryptographic information and transaction details. Blockchain is considered a disruptive and emerging technology, with a wide range of potential applications despite being mainly associated with cryptocurrency. The use of blockchain technologies has grown exponentially over the years in many industries including retail, service and finance. While there is a huge potential for blockchain technologies in many industries, there currently exists a blockchain skills shortage. This unit will introduce you to the blockchain concepts, business applications and security concerns. In addition, the unit complements this knowledge with opportunities to design and develop your own blockchain applications.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite COIT11238
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Unit coordinator's reflection and Teaching Team feedback
Students with no programming background struggled with programming content.
Introduce students to basic-level solidity programming and then guide them in developing blockchain applications.
Feedback from In-class student feedback
Students were unable to install and configure blockchain tools on the lab PCs.
Identify and use online tools to avoid the need for installing and configuring blockchain tools on lab PCs.