This summer school programme will give you a complete immersion into the topic of blockchain from world-leading experts and practitioners in the field at Europe's No. 1 university in Blockchain education (ranking by CoinDesk 2022 and 2021). Blockchain-based systems, with cryptocurrencies as the most prominent example, have disrupted and reshaped the way we think about digital finance and similar applications, such as supply chains. Blockchain and related technologies allow to store sequential, trustful information without enforced consensus by central authorities or trustees. This intense three-week course aims to provide you with a critical understanding of blockchains and its application by introducing them from a multidisciplinary perspective. At the end of the course you will understand three key pillars of blockchain and distributed ledger technology systems, namely the technology, its economics and the legal/regulatory aspects behind them. Building on this, we will then explore other fields of application, such as forensics and data analytics. The course offers a chance to experience classes taught by different professors and lecturers from UZH and leading universities world-wide. It is also nurtured by the most prominent protocols and platforms in the space. The programme has consistently received excellent ratings for its highly interactive structure, hands-on practice sessions and for incorporating the most advanced and promising blockchain-based platforms.

For more information, please see the call for applications.