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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

The road ahead for Blockchain


Now that we've recapped our journey so far, we will present some of the key areas that we see as challenges and an opportunity for the future of blockchain solutions.

 

Addressing the divide – the enterprise blockchain and crypto asset-driven ecosystem

There's been a significant divide between the world of crypto assets and initial coin offerings (ICOs) on the one hand, and the world of regulated, conventional business on the other—the latter being led by the cooperative effort of financial institutions and banks to improve operational efficiency and so on. Both sides, however, have taken advantage of the benefits of blockchain to boost their market potential and further their goals.

The blockchain ecosystem—motivated by technological innovation, disruption, and newfangled models for doing business—has demonstrated what at times seems like juvenile behavior and occasional tantrums as it challenges the status quo. On both sides of the divide, this defiant behavior...