This book provides a comprehensive guide to the principles and engineering approaches necessary for developing secure and sustainable blockchain applications. It introduces fundamental blockchain concepts and explores the integration of AI and blockchain. Targeted at students, IT professionals, managers, and healthcare practitioners, this book seeks to empower readers to effectively leverage blockchain technology.

Prof. Muthu Ramachandran is currently a Cybersecurity, AI, and Blockchain Research Consultant at Forti5 Technologies, UK, and Professor Extraordinarius at University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a certified IASME CE, ICA, IoT Cyber & IoT Assurance. Previously, he was Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India and at University of Southampton. He was also Associate Professor in the School of Built Environment, Engineering, and Computing at Leeds Beckett University in the UK for 18 years. Prior to his academic career, he spent nearly eight years in industrial research with Philips Research Labs, Volantis Systems Ltd, Surrey, UK, and at DRDO, Hyderabad, India as Senior Scientist working on real-time systems, software architecture, reuse, and testing.