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Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

By : Nitin Gaur, Luc Desrosiers, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Petr Novotny, Salman A. Baset, Anthony O'Dowd
Book Image

Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

By: Nitin Gaur, Luc Desrosiers, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Petr Novotny, Salman A. Baset, Anthony O'Dowd

Overview of this book

Blockchain and Hyperledger technologies are hot topics today. Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Composer are open source projects that help organizations create private, permissioned blockchain networks. These find application in finance, banking, supply chain, and IoT among several other sectors. This book will be an easy reference to explore and build blockchain networks using Hyperledger technologies. The book starts by outlining the evolution of blockchain, including an overview of relevant blockchain technologies. You will learn how to configure Hyperledger Fabric and become familiar with its architectural components. Using these components, you will learn to build private blockchain networks, along with the applications that connect to them. Starting from principles first, you’ll learn to design and launch a network, implement smart contracts in chaincode and much more. By the end of this book, you will be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications, handling the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. The Future of Blockchain and the Challenges Ahead

We, as its authors, certainly hope that this book has been an interesting, informative, and educational journey bringing forth not only the Hyperledger centric landscape for blockchain technology projects but also an overall business perspective that explains the challenges and adoption patterns that follow. This has been an interesting project for all of us, given the rapid changes of pace and evolution in the blockchain technology landscape and Hyperledger frameworks and tools. We have attempted to ensure that the content not only provides a basis for a strong foundation but also provides deeper insights into some of the core elements of blockchain business network solution design. As active members of the blockchain technical community, technology, and thought leaders, we all believe that we still have a long way to go with regards to solving some complex issues such as a privacy, confidentiality, scalability, and network centric...