Follow the evidence
Separate verified facts from assumptions, identify missing information, and build an incident theory the team can defend.
WVBF emerging technology cybersecurity education
CHAIN//REACT
Emerging Technology Cyber Defense & Investigations Lab. A structured, multi-session WVBF education program where students build investigative and incident-response skills through practical, interdisciplinary cases.
PROGRAM STATUSWVBF-developed · Seeking institutional partnerships + sponsored pilotsNo prior coding experience required
01 / THE PROGRAM
Cyber defense needs more than one discipline.
Technical incidents become financial, operational, legal, governance, and communication problems.
CHAIN//REACT is an interdisciplinary cybersecurity education program developed by the West Virginia Blockchain Foundation. Through hands-on investigations inspired by real-world incidents, students explore security vulnerabilities, digital asset threats, AI agent authorization, smart contracts, and incident response.
The program is designed for university students across cybersecurity, computer science, business, finance, accounting, and legal studies. Students contribute through investigation, systems thinking, risk analysis, financial reasoning, legal and policy analysis, communication, or technical testing.
Use multiple lenses
Combine technical, financial, legal, business, accounting, and communication perspectives instead of solving in silos.
Make decisions
Prioritize containment, evidence preservation, stakeholder communication, recovery, and accountability under pressure.
Choose the depth
Begin with accessible analysis, then add optional technical exercises for students ready to go deeper.
Core learning areas
Investigate the systems changing cyber risk.
CHAIN//REACT connects emerging technology concepts to the evidence, controls, decisions, and consequences students may encounter across modern organizations.
Blockchain + digital asset security
Examine how distributed systems, custody models, access controls, and operational decisions create security exposure.
Smart-contract investigations
Explore vulnerabilities, transaction behavior, permissions, dependencies, and the evidence needed to explain an incident.
AI agents + delegated authority
Investigate how software agents receive permission, initiate actions, handle digital payments, and exceed intended authority.
Wallet security + transaction tracing
Analyze fraud patterns, compromised credentials, custody failures, transaction paths, and practical investigative questions.
Incident response + cyber risk
Prioritize containment, preserve evidence, assess impact, communicate decisions, and develop a defensible response.
Program format
Flexible for the campus. Structured for the investigation.
Each engagement is scoped around the audience and learning goals. WVBF does not publish its proprietary case library, student exercises, instructor guides, or curriculum materials.
Multi-session delivery
A guided sequence of investigations and response decisions built for a course, department, institute, or interdisciplinary campus audience.
Student investigation groups
Multidisciplinary teams combine technical analysis with business, finance, accounting, policy, legal, and communication perspectives.
Case-based investigations
Students work from incident evidence and real-world security patterns without publishing WVBF's proprietary teaching library.
Optional technical exercises
Institutions may add deeper technical work for experienced students while preserving an accessible path for non-coders.
Custom institutional programs
WVBF can scope a pilot around the institution's audience, learning goals, available time, disciplines, and sponsor objectives.
RELATED SINGLE-SESSION EXPERIENCE
Compare the Attack Lab Blockchain Attack Lab can operate inside CHAIN//REACT.
Attack Lab gives students a concentrated incident simulation. CHAIN//REACT uses a broader, multi-session structure to develop investigation, evidence analysis, and response skills.
University departments and interdisciplinary programs can use CHAIN//REACT to connect cybersecurity concepts with business, finance, accounting, legal studies, and technology.
HBCUs, cybersecurity institutes, and student organizations can create practical entry points for students with different levels of technical experience.
Workforce and institutional partners can support pilots that expand access to applied emerging technology education without promising jobs, placements, or credentials.
UniversitiesHBCUsCybersecurity institutesBusiness schoolsStudent organizationsWorkforce partnersInstitutional sponsors
02 / TARGET PARTNERS
Built for institutional collaboration.
WVBF is seeking campuses and sponsors interested in thoughtful, interdisciplinary pilot programs.
03 / PARTNERSHIP MODEL
Pilot the program with WVBF.
CHAIN//REACT is a WVBF-developed program seeking institutional partnerships and sponsored pilots.
WVBF works with the host institution or sponsor to define the audience, educational goals, program format, delivery responsibilities, and appropriate level of technical depth.
Public program information describes the learning experience without disclosing proprietary cases, exercises, facilitator materials, or curriculum assets.
Institutional partnerships
Bring CHAIN//REACT to Your Campus
Invite a university department, cybersecurity institute, student organization, workforce partner, or institutional sponsor to explore a funded educational partnership or pilot program with WVBF.