Group report

2 - Project output (other than dissertation) - 50

Group presentation

1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 50

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The module consists of both lectures and a two-day long workshop on XRPL design. The lectures are to provide the fundamental knowledge on blockchains, on distributed ledger technology, on failures and successful, mature cases that the market has been witnessing since 2009. The lectures are to create a shared understanding on the subject matter, too. The module includes a two-day long bootcamp to learn about a specific ledger technology called XRPL, and to use that knowledge to design financial services built on blockchain-based protocols.  
The lectures and the WS are centred around the following questions: 
<ul><li>What are the drivers to transform ICT-enabled financial transactions using blockchains? </li><li>What are the performance (i.e. risk and return) implications? </li><li>What are the both technologically and commercially feasible use cases for blockchain-based transactions? </li></ul>
The lecturing and the workshop-activities of the module include the exploration of innovation hubs and of the XRPL scene in a key European city. The bootcamp includes a Hackathon activity in groups to boost problem solving and presentation skills.

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Cryptocurrencies and Decentralised Finance (No. 1061)

 Blockchain revolution: how the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world.

DeFi and the Future of Finance.

BBM020 - Innovating on Blockchains: XRPL Bootcamp

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The module starts with a short kick-off meeting, and lectures to establish the fundamentals and to provide the state-of the art knowledge on blockchains. The two day-long bootcamp provides you the specific knowledge and necessary design/coding skills to instrumentalize XRPL technology for use cases. The finishing part of the bootcamp includes an intensive Hackathon for problem-solving, which activity takes place in pre-defined groups to control for the diversity of knowledge and of experience. The Hackathon results in a pitch that provides the basis of your coursework.

Innovating on Blockchains: XRPL Bootcamp

Explain the feasible usability and potential of blockchain-backed transaction design. 

Knowledge

Collect, analyse, and synthesise collective knowledge in groups with the aim of designing a solution of an innovative idea. 

Skills

Address both socio-economic and technology concerns and bottlenecks related to blockchain-based transaction design.  

Show openness to working with multidisciplinary team members and taking advice from partners/mentors 

Values and attitudes

Apply relevant business and technology knowledge to transaction design problems.  

Acknowledge the interdisciplinary nature (e.g., finance, technology management, data science) of designing and developing transaction-based (financial) services.  

Generate innovative solutions to real-world problems and design prototypes. 

Adopt an innovative and disruptive mindset to propose alternatives for transaction design.

Describe XRPL for designing and developing blockchain-backed transaction solutions. 

Develop presentation skills and deliver a pitch. 