Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI)

Where is Blockchain Being Taught?

Blockchain is being increasingly incorporated into the curriculum taught at universities and other educational institutions around the world, offering academic degrees and other certifications. We have compiled this repository of over 700 courses spanning multiple academic disciplines. We hope that by compiling this repository of courses related to blockchain, we will make it easier for those looking to get a more formal education to access the training they want. We also hope this resource can help educators connect with each other to promote knowledge sharing and other collaborations such as research on common topics. Below is a listing of blockchain-related courses in universities and other educational institutions, as well as a form to collect additional submissions for courses. Students, professors, and other university staff can submit their blockchain courses for inclusion through this form and apply for the GBBC observing membership program.

Technical standards for developments in blockchain and digital assets, as in any new technology, are fundamental to ensure safety, reliability, and further innovation. They establish common guidelines, definitions, and rules of the game through technical criteria, specifications, methodologies, and practices which all serve to ensure adequate functionality as well as the levels of interoperability, trust, and ease of use necessary for stakeholders to work together. Collaboration is fundamental for the growth of an industry, in ways that will ultimately lead to widespread acceptance of formalized rules and regulations. This repository of 50 technical standards bodies is meant to provide an objective overview of the state of standards developments today for blockchain and digital assets, with no vested interests from any particular organization.

We worked to make it easier for readers to identify how they can work with other groups, and for industry standards organizations to identify for gaps, opportunities, and areas for alignment. We worked to make it easier to compare across standards bodies based on their purpose and proposed outcome, while also allowing for self-identification based on their topics and industries of focus.

This is an ongoing collaborative work, where we welcome the community to provide feedback or suggest additional standards bodies for this list.

The blockchain and digital assets landscape is made up of products, services, platforms, and infrastructure that together support a wide range of developments and applications. Use cases and infrastructure developments are unfolding across all industry verticals, bringing a new generation of decentralized business models that rely heavily on communities of users and participants in order to make decisions and scale. A global mapping of this landscape, with key stakeholders and their interactions, is summarized below. The GSMI 3.0 team also provides access to the full list of players, and welcomes further suggestions from the community.