Blockchain tech has become one of the hot-button tech terms of the last year or so, but what does it actually mean?
Blockchain technology has attracted a great deal of attention in the last two years, as companies in many different sectors wake up to the idea that they can benefit from leveraging the power of either the Ethereum or Bitcoin blockchains.
Companies actively involved in blockchain projects include IBM, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Barclays, Phillips Healthcare, UBS and a host of other household names.
While the use of blockchain tech in payment systems seems obvious, there is a host of other use cases, from education certification and legal contracts, to digital identity systems and healthcare records.
Many large companies are considering whether moving their cumbersome, expensive legacy systems to the blockchain would make sense, while small startups are attracted by the idea that it can be easy and cheap to build a decentralised application on top of an existing network (such as the Ethereum World Computer).
Of course, one of the challenges of investigating and implementing blockchain technology is assessing whether it is the right fit for your company, or whether the maintenance of existing systems would make more sense.
And that is where Yope’s training packages, tailored precisely to your market’s needs, are so valuable.
We provide either one or two days of intensive training for executives and technical staff, in which we work with you on requirements analysis for various use cases — either for your existing products, or for new products that you wish to develop, and assess whether it would be preferable to use blockchain technology for all or part of the solution.
We can vary the agenda depending on the mix of capabilities of your employees: for example, if the audience is mainly executives involved in strategy, we can provide a one-day theory course, where we present a high-level view of real-world examples and potential applications. For an audience of developers, we would present a more hands-on course where we would expect attendees to code along and to end the course able to write and deploy their own smart contracts for a simple decentralised application.
To highlight the expertise of our developers in blockchain-based payment solutions, we would encourage you to look at the Yope Payment API, which we have now made available as an open-source resource, under an MIT licence: http://ift.tt/1ZlWAFu
For organisations who need a simple, out-of-the-box solution, we provide our blockchain-integrated payment API in a Docker container absolutely free, so you can be up and running straight away with no dependency issues.
If you wish to dive deeper and engage us for a training course, we can teach your developers to integrate the API (or any other blockchain integration) into your own products, and can make ourselves available longer-term to write components that will facilitate this.
