A practical course taking software professionals from zero blockchain knowledge to designing ledger-backed insurance systems — anchored in a real production case the learner already owns: the Galileo platform.
Per your feedback + a second research pass: dedicated history of blockchain lesson & timeline (Module 01) · new Module 09 — banking & capital markets real-world usage · a YouTube video shelf per module · an explicit plan for 30 diagrams and 11 worked examples · a status-tagged company tracker (insurance + banking) that becomes its own page.
From Chaum (1982) and Haber–Stornetta (1991) to Bitcoin, Ethereum and the enterprise wave — then hashes → blocks → consensus → smart contracts, taught with an interactive tamper-the-block playground.
Policy lifecycle, underwriting, claims, reinsurance, compliance — using Galileo's Policy/Party/Coverage/Payment model as the worked example throughout.
Who actually shipped: insurers and banks, live and dead projects alike — then L2/zk/tokenization improvements and AI agents with on-chain decision provenance.
Taught as a story in six eras, each pinned to what it means for insurance & banking today. Preview of the timeline diagram:
| # | Module | Highlights | Tier | Hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | Orientation | Using the course; browser-first tooling setup | 🟢 | 1 |
| 01 | Foundations — and where it came from | History lesson + timeline (1982→2026), hashing, blocks, keys, consensus (PoW/PoS/BFT), chain types · interactive block playground | 🟢 | 6 |
| 02 | Smart contracts & Ethereum | EVM, gas, wallets, Solidity anatomy, security top-8, oracles · Lab: HelloPolicy in Remix | 🔵 | 6 |
| 03 | Enterprise & permissioned chains | Fabric vs Corda vs Besu, consortium governance, platform-selection worksheet | 🔵 | 4 |
| 04 | Insurance domain core | Lifecycle, underwriting, claims, reinsurance, KYC/AML — Galileo data model as worked example | 🟢 | 5 |
| 05 | Where chain meets cover | Value framework, parametric deep-dive, fraud (>$40 B/yr), subrogation, reinsurance settlement, audit ledgers (Galileo case); anti-patterns | 🟢 | 5 |
| 06 | Build lab I — parametric on Ethereum | Typhoon / flight-delay product for a PH-like market: contract, oracle trigger, payout, testnet deploy; AXA fizzy post-mortem | 🔵 | 4 |
| 07 | Build lab II — enterprise claims & audit chain | Fabric claim workflow alongside IBM's open-source Fabric insurance sample; Galileo-style event-sourced audit ledger; ESB/adapter legacy integration | 🔵🟣 | 4 |
| 08 | Real world I — insurance | Etherisc, Arbol, Lemonade Kenya crop cover, Nexus Mutual, State Farm–USAA subrogation, Insurwave, openIDL, RiskStream, Aon stablecoin premium — and the failures: B3i, fizzy, Vitana | 🟢 | 3 |
| 09 | Real world II — banking & capital markets NEW | Kinexys/JPM Coin + deposit token on Base, Citi Token Services, The Clearing House tokenized-deposit network (2027), Partior, Fnality, HSBC Orion, digital bonds, CBDCs/mBridge, MiCA & GENIUS Act — plus we.trade / Marco Polo / Contour post-mortems | 🟢 | 3 |
| 10 | Current improvements | L2 rollups, zk-proofs for private claims, account abstraction, RWA tokenization ($8.6→23 B H1-25), stablecoin payments, interop, CBDC outlook | 🟣 | 3 |
| 11 | AI × blockchain in insurance | AI claims/underwriting agents, LLM primer, on-chain provenance of AI decisions, guardrails & constitutional AI (Dhillon book), Arbol's AI+chain platform as live example | 🟣 | 4 |
| 12 | Capstone | Modernise a Galileo-class platform: audit ledger + parametric riders + auditable AI triage; rubric-scored | 🔵🟣 | 3 |
🟢 everyone (= the ≈18 h essentials track) · 🔵 technical · 🟣 advanced. Every module ends with a self-marking quiz. Cross-cutting: glossary (~90 flip-cards), resource shelf, quiz bank, companies tracker, progress dashboard.
| Initiative | What | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Etherisc | Parametric flight & crop protocol — 10k+ policies, 15 countries, ~$13 M payouts | 🟢 live |
| Arbol | Climate parametric + dRe reinsurance triggers; AI + blockchain platform (Chainlink) | 🟢 live |
| Lemonade Crypto Climate Coalition | Drought cover, ~7,000 Kenyan farmers (Avalanche, Chainlink, Hannover Re) | 🟢 live pilot |
| Nexus Mutual | Cover mutual for smart-contract hacks, custody failure, depeg | 🟢 live |
| Aon | First major-broker stablecoin premium settlement (Coinbase, Paxos) — Mar 2026 | 🟢 milestone |
| State Farm ↔ USAA | Auto subrogation netting; full automation Dec 2020 | 🟡 prod 2020, quiet since |
| Insurwave (Maersk, EY, Guardtime…) | Marine hull placement & premiums on Corda, live 2018 | 🟡 evolved beyond DLT |
| openIDL (AAIS, Travelers, Swiss Re…) | Regulatory data-call network on Hyperledger Fabric | 🟢 active |
| RiskStream Collaborative | Largest industry consortium (FNOL, proof of insurance, mortality monitor) | 🟢 active |
| ZhongAn · Ping An | China insurtech consortium chains | 🟢 active regionally |
| MetLife Vitana | Gestational-diabetes parametric, Singapore | 🔴 pilot ended |
| AXA fizzy | Flight-delay parametric on Ethereum | 🔴 discontinued 2019 |
| B3i (20+ insurers) | Reinsurance placement consortium | 🔴 insolvent Jul 2022 |
| Initiative | What | Status |
|---|---|---|
| JPMorgan Kinexys | JPM Coin payments; 2026 deposit token on Base (public L2) | 🟢 live |
| Citi Token Services | 24/7 tokenized-deposit transfers NY–London–HK | 🟢 live |
| The Clearing House network | Shared tokenized-deposit network — JPM, Citi, BofA, Wells Fargo + 13 banks; target H1 2027 | 🟡 building |
| Partior · Fnality | Interbank multi-currency clearing · wholesale settlement (GBP live 2023) | 🟢 live |
| HSBC Orion · GS DAP · SocGen-Forge · EIB | Digital bond platforms & landmark tokenized bonds | 🟢 live |
| Visa · Mastercard | USDC stablecoin settlement rails | 🟢 live |
| SWIFT + Chainlink trials | Messaging ↔ token-network interop | 🟡 pilots |
| CBDC: e-CNY · digital euro · mBridge | Central-bank programmes (BIS exited mBridge 2024) | 🟡 mixed |
| we.trade · Marco Polo · Contour | Trade-finance consortia — the course's cautionary spine ("technology is an enabler, not the business") | 🔴 all shut 2022–23 |
History timeline · block anatomy · hash avalanche · Merkle tree · tamper propagation · UTXO vs account · consensus panel · chain-type decision tree · EVM tx lifecycle · contract anatomy · oracle pattern · vulnerability map · Fabric & Corda architectures · governance rings · insurance value chain · policy state machine · claims swimlane · reinsurance tower · Galileo domain recap · use-case quadrant · parametric trigger sequence · subrogation netting · audit-ledger pattern · lab architectures ×3 · adoption map · deposit-token vs stablecoin vs CBDC · L2 stack · zk claims-privacy flow · auditable-AI loop.
Tamper a premium record live · HelloPolicy.sol on testnet · platform choice for a 5-insurer motor consortium · Term-product journey mapped to lifecycle (from the eSubmission spec) · kill 3 of 6 use cases with the value framework · full typhoon parametric contract · IBM Fabric insurance sample walkthrough · State Farm–USAA netting reconstruction · one premium over SWIFT vs stablecoin vs tokenized deposit · auditable AI-triage design · Galileo modernisation capstone.
| Module | Video / channel | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Anders Brownworth — Blockchain 101: A Visual Demo (+ interactive demo site) | watch?v=_160oMzblY8 · andersbrownworth.com |
| 01 | 3Blue1Brown — But how does bitcoin actually work? (best single explainer) | watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4 |
| 01 | Simply Explained — How does a blockchain work? | watch?v=SSo_EIwHSd4 |
| 01 | MIT OCW 15.S12 Blockchain & Money (Gensler, full course) | ocw.mit.edu |
| 02 | freeCodeCamp × Patrick Collins — 32-h Solidity/Web3 (JS) + repo | watch?v=gyMwXuJrbJQ · GitHub |
| 02 | freeCodeCamp × Patrick Collins — 16-h Solidity (Python) | watch?v=M576WGiDBdQ |
| 02 | Cyfrin Updraft — Collins' maintained free platform | updraft.cyfrin.io |
| 03 | IBM Technology — "What is Hyperledger Fabric?" & explainers · Hyperledger Foundation workshops | @IBMTechnology · @HyperledgerFoundation |
| 04–05 | The Institutes / RiskStream — insurance-blockchain webinars | theinstitutes.org |
| 08 | Etherisc talks · Lemonade Foundation materials | etherisc.com · lemonade.com/foundation |
| 09–10 | Whiteboard Crypto — L2s, zk-proofs, stablecoins in plain English | @WhiteboardCrypto |
Every module page embeds 1–3 curated videos as cards (title · channel · duration · "what to watch for"). Links open on YouTube — no iframes, so the site stays offline-safe. All links re-verified at build (P4 gate).
D:\Galileo\blockchain-course\ ├─ PLAN.md · plan.html ← you are here (approval gate) ├─ index.html ← landing: course map, personas, progress dashboard ├─ m00-orientation.html … m12-capstone.html ← 13 module pages ├─ companies.html ← real-world tracker (status-tagged, insurance + banking) ├─ glossary.html · resources.html · quizbank.html └─ assets\ ├─ course.css · course.js · quiz.js ├─ blockdemo.js M01 hash/block playground (WebCrypto SHA-256) └─ img\ 30 original SVG diagrams
Bricolage Grotesque · Schibsted Grotesk · Spline Sans Mono. Hexagon block motifs; module numbers as block heights ("BLK 04"). Accents ≥3:1 contrast; chart-series palettes validator-checked at build; status never rides on colour alone (icons + words).
Say "approved" (with any answers above) and the build starts at P1 — or mark up anything else you want changed.