BTA CBSP study guide
BTA CBSP · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Certified Blockchain Security Professional (CBSP) is a vendor-neutral credential offered by Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA), a training organization that describes itself as training the world's leading companies since 2017 and as a wholly owned subsidiary of The Crypto Company (CRCW). The credential targets security practitioners, auditors, developers, and IT professionals who need to reason about how distributed ledger systems fail and how to defend them, rather than only how to build them. Because the official CBSP certification page currently returns a 404 error, BTA's published exam blueprint, item count, time limit, passing score, fee, retake policy, and recertification cycle could not be verified from the source at retrieval time; candidates should confirm these details directly with BTA before registering. The domain structure used for this study material organizes coverage into five equally weighted areas: security fundamentals, architecture and cryptography, threat landscape and attack vectors, security controls and secure development, and governance, risk, compliance, and incident response. The BTA CBSP study guide has 5 sections and about 1,554 words.
01Blockchain Security Fundamentals
Start with the CIA triad applied to distributed ledgers . Confidentiality is unusual on public chains because state is replicated to every node; privacy therefore depends on cryptographic commitments, zero-knowledge proofs, and off-chain storage.
317 words, about 2 min02Blockchain Architecture and Cryptography
Candidates must reason about hash functions, digital signatures, and Merkle structures . Hash functions provide preimage resistance, second-preimage resistance, and collision resistance; block linkage depends on collision resistance, while address and commitment schemes depend on preimage properties.
333 words, about 2 min03Threat Landscape and Attack Vectors
Organize attacks by target. Smart-contract attacks : reentrancy, integer issues, access-control gaps, oracle manipulation, flash-loan-assisted price distortion, front-running and MEV, and logic errors in upgradeable proxies.
292 words, about 1 min04Security Controls and Secure Development
Secure development for ledgers combines SDLC discipline with on-chain specifics. Requirements and threat modeling come first: define trust boundaries, privileged roles, and upgrade paths.
290 words, about 1 min05Governance, Risk, Compliance and Incident Response
Governance defines who can change what, and how . Cover on-chain governance (token voting, delegation, quorum, timelocks) and off-chain processes (multisig councils, change advisory).
322 words, about 2 min