Blockchain Architecture Practitioner Program
14-month immersive training starting September 2025
We built this program after working with companies who kept asking for the same thing: people who actually understand how blockchain systems work in production environments. Not theory. Not surface-level knowledge. Real architectural thinking.
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Core Focus Areas
Most blockchain courses teach you how to write smart contracts. That's fine, but it's not what we do here. We're focused on the architectural decisions that make or break decentralized systems at scale.
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Distributed Systems Fundamentals
Consensus mechanisms, Byzantine fault tolerance, network topology design. The stuff that keeps systems running when nodes fail.
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Protocol Layer Architecture
How to design transaction processing, state management, and data structures for blockchain environments where efficiency actually matters.
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Infrastructure and Scaling
Layer 2 solutions, sharding strategies, cross-chain communication. Building systems that work beyond proof-of-concept.
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Security Architecture
Cryptographic protocols, attack vectors, audit processes. Making systems resilient against real threats, not theoretical ones.
Who Teaches This
Our instructors aren't just academics. They've built production blockchain systems for financial institutions, supply chain networks, and identity platforms. They know what breaks at scale because they've watched it break.
Linnea Thorsen
Protocol Architecture
Spent six years designing consensus protocols for enterprise blockchain implementations. Led infrastructure teams at two major blockchain platforms.
Vesna Petrović
Distributed Systems
Built distributed databases before blockchain existed. Now applies that experience to designing resilient decentralized networks that actually perform.
Aoife Gallagher
Security and Cryptography
Former security auditor who found critical vulnerabilities in major blockchain protocols. Now teaches how to build systems that don't have those problems.
How the Program Works
Fourteen months, split into four distinct phases. Each phase builds on the previous one, but the focus shifts from foundational concepts to increasingly complex system design challenges.
Foundation Phase
Months 1–3
Distributed systems theory, cryptographic primitives, basic blockchain mechanics. We assume you know how to code, but not that you've worked with distributed systems before. Lots of reading, lots of discussion about trade-offs.
Protocol Design
Months 4–7
Now you start designing your own protocols. Consensus mechanisms, transaction processing, state management. You'll build small systems, watch them fail, figure out why, and rebuild them better.
Scaling and Infrastructure
Months 8–11
How do you make these systems work at scale? Layer 2 solutions, sharding strategies, performance optimization. Real infrastructure challenges with real constraints like bandwidth and latency.
Capstone Project
Months 12–14
Design and document a complete blockchain architecture for a real-world use case. Work with a small team, make architectural decisions, justify those decisions, and present your design to industry professionals who will ask hard questions.
What Makes This Different
We're not trying to turn you into a smart contract developer. There are plenty of programs for that. We're focused on the people who need to understand the whole system, who make decisions about infrastructure and protocol design.
The program runs primarily online with four intensive in-person workshops at our Taiwan facility. Those workshops are where you work through complex architectural problems with your cohort and get direct feedback from instructors.
Small cohorts—maximum 18 students per intake so we can actually work through problems together
Direct access to instructors between sessions through technical forums where architectural questions get real answers
Industry connection program with blockchain development companies looking for architecture-focused talent
