A Technical Talk on “A Research perspective on Blockchain Technology “

The department of Computer Science and Engineering in coordination with Research review cell organized a technical talk on ” A Research perspective on Blockchain Technology ” through virtual mode for the faculty and student community of the, SMVITM, Bantakal on 7^th July 2021 at 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM. The resource person of the talk is Mr. Aditya S K, Co-Founder, Tequed Lab, ASQR Technologies.

Mr. Aditya started the presentation with the brief evolution of Blockchain technology, went ahead by specifying the problems before cryptocurrency came into existence. Mr. Aditya highlighted some of the famous cryptographic hashing algorithms like MD5, SHA1 and SHA -2 family which is the family that consists of six hash functions with digests (hash values) that are 224, 256, 384 or 512 bits: SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-512/224, SHA-512/256. SHA-256 and SHA-512 are novel hash functions computed with eight 32-bit and 64-bit words, respectively. He also highlighted some research areas in this context.

Mr, Aditya enlightened the audience with the concept of hashing in Blockchain technology which is the backbone of it and specified how a new method can be added or existing methods can be altered in the blockchain. He highlighted on the data storage in blockchains, the different applications of blockchain, the role of miners and who are the miners was also mentioned. He also spoke on Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality.

More than 80 members have attended this webinar. The session ended with enthusiastic question-answer round from the audience and the orator. Ms. Rukmini Bhat B, Assistant Professor, gave a warm welcome to the audience at the beginning of the event. She has also introduced the resource person. She has concluded the webinar by thanking all attendees and expressed her gratitude at the end of the program.