Why do you need blockchain engineers official certifications?

Blockchain certification

High demand growth for blockchain engineers

In a report released at the end of February 2019 by Hired recruiting company, the demand for blockchain engineers has increased by more than 500% year-over-year. Glassdoor and LinkedIn also found that blockchain engineers jobs increased in 2018. Thus, although the cryptocurrencies and ICO tokens market has suffered major losses, blockchain technology is expanding. Moreover, big companies are strongly entering the field too, soon Facebook releases its first token to its hundreds of millions of users.

Moreover, Hired report underlines that blockchain engineers are the software engineers with highest salaries, especially in France, with an average salary in the different countries covered in the report of above 105 000 $, knowing that of course salaries in San Francisco Bay are much higher because high-tech salaries are usually higher there than in other countries such as France. Switzerland has also higher salaries compared to other countries and the demand is high too thanks to its different blockchain business complementary regions: Zug Crypto Valley, Zurich TrustSquare and Geneva Trust Valley.

Official certificate on blockchain development

University of Geneva Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) on blockchain development is an official certificate worth 12 European credits, recognized in many countries in the world. Registration is open until July 10^th 2019 to start the 3-month sessions on site or via video-conference on Fridays and Saturdays mornings from mid-September to mid-December. Full information on the following link: https://www.cas-blockchain-certification.com/en/cas-blockchain-switzerland If you’re not a programmer, you can still participate to the 1^st module on blockchain technology basics, legal aspects (ICO, STO…) and tokenomics, which will also be the occasion to discuss with the programmers who may code the business use-cases during their end of study code project. And if you’re a programmer who already knows the technical basics and just want to learn Ethereum programming, it is possible to do the 3^rd module on Ethereum programming without doing the other modules.

Anyway, you will be sure to select the most appropriate blockchain platform for your use case if you collaborate with one of the certified programmers who have successfully passed the CAS blockchain at University of Geneva because this CAS gives a broad overview of the different DLT solutions available with their advantages and disadvantages (NEO, Ethereum, Hedera Hashgraph…)

Blockchain developer is the top emerging job in 2018 according to LinkedIn

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Quickly upgrade your programming skills on site or via video-conference with University of Geneva Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) on blockchain development, especially with Ethereum, NEO and Hedera Hashgraph. This official certificate will give you 12 European credits ECTS, which are recognized in many countries in the world.

Full information on: https://www.cas-blockchain-certification.com/en/home and other blockchain developer jobs positive information

Blockchain events in November 2018 in Geneva

CAS Blockchain events in November 2018

The CAS blockchain of the University of Geneva organizes and participates to different events related to blockchain, distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and cryptocurrencies. The events to happen in November 2018 are listed below:

University of Geneva e-MBA Alumni Meeting

Dr. Jean-Marc Seigneur, director of the CAS blockchain, will participate to a panel on blockchain at the University of Geneva e-MBA Alumni meeting on November 27th 2018 at the Country Club Geneva. 

First Geneva Blockchain Speed Dating

The first Blockchain Speed ​​Dating organized by the CAS Blockchain at the University of Geneva will take place on Monday November 5th 2018 and will focus on the new generation of DLT, called DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph), which is generally faster than blockchains but with some constraints regarding their resistance to attacks in permissionless settings.

Hashgraph Hedera, who is one of the best-known DAGs, has already confirmed that they will be presenting their platform at the event. Other presentations will complet the DAG DLT overview.

Appointments with interested companies to discuss a blockchain / DLT project is also possible and will be done during the day by booking on the following page, which will also have the latest information about the event: Geneva Blockchain Speed Dating November 5th 2018

Peer-review of dApps, Blockchain and other DLT Technologies

Scientific Credibility of dApps, Blockchain and other DLT Technologies Claims

Blockchain is still a new technology field with several remaining areas of improvements, for example, reducing the energy consumption of consensus algorithms whilst still keeping attack-resistance or increasing the number of transactions per second. Unfortunately, many projects claim that they are solving some aspects without giving enough detail of their solution for peer-review.

Why you should look for peer-reviewed projects?

Peer-review is a proven method to evaluate scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field. It has been used in academia for centuries. Actually, the current technological shortcomings of blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are so difficult that they are being researched in academia. Without peer-review, a DLT or cryptocurrency project, which only claims to solve one of these issues, doesn't give any proof that its solution really works. Only peer-review by independent experts, not involved in the commercial aspects of the project, should be considered trustworthy, otherwise it is merely marketing. For example, on one hand, Cardano is a decentralised application (dApp) development platform that has been peer-reviewed. It is one of the reasons that Coinbase is considering listing Cardano. On the other hand, FANTOM, which claims to be a dApp development platform reaching 300 transactions per second, hasn't been peer-reviewed and its claim shouldn't taken seriously until peer-review.

Get your project peer-reviewed and presented at the next ACM Symposium of Applied Computing!

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is one of the most reputed engineering association in the world concerning computers. The ACM has organized the yearly Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC) since 1986. 2019 will be the first year that it has a special track on blockchain, DLT and dApps. That track is organized by Dr. Jean-Marc Seigneur, who has published more than 100 scientific papers on attack-resistant decentralized trust algorithms. Still teaching at University of Geneva, he is an expert member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) blockchain standardisation working group and the founder of Reputaction, which develops a patent-pending solution for pervasive instant KYC & AML compliant cryptocurrencies transactions including Bitcoin and Ether based on hardware security modules. The other Program Committee (PC) members of that ACM SAC DAPP track are also experts in the field of blockchain and DLT from technology to legal aspects. Submission of industrial experience reports, commercial tools case studies and reports of innovative computing applications with blockchain, DLT and crypto-currencies are possible. Thus, if you would like that your blockchain / crypto project is peer-reviewed for increased credibility and visibility because it will be published in the ACM digital library, check out the following Web page: https://www.cas-blockchain-certification.com/en/acm-sac-dapp-track

Average blockchain salary in 2018

What is the salary of a blockchain developer?

As we are finishing the syllabus of our new CAS Blockchain course at University of Geneva, it is interesting to estimate how much earns a blockchain developer. A good source for blockchain salaries is Blockchain Developers although sometimes they may have surprising ones like the one in the image below: "seeking a VP of Engineering. Our client has built one of the fastest (currently 120K Transactions Per Second (TPS)) blockchain solutions in the world. The system will eventually scale to over 1 Million TPS. Our client’s system will make alternative stablecoins look like kids’ toys in comparison." It is surprising because a blockchain with 100k TPS is already quite high and they argue to reach 1 Million TPS but they still don't have their vice-president of engineering to be paid around 350k$ per year plus equity.

Definitely starting at more than 120k$ per year plus tokens shares and some equity

On average, a blockchain developer is likely to start at more than 120k$ per year and with experience around 180k$ per year not counting the shares in tokens and equity both in the USA and in Switzerland, according to a recent article that underlined that blockchain developers are in high demand in Switzerland. 

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