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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

Staying engaged with the Hyperledger blockchain 


In this final section, we would like the readers to get engage with blockchain's journey and evolution. There are many ways to do this, ranging from direct contribution to various open source and Hyperledger projects to steering your enterprise projects in the right business direction and the right application of the blockchain technology—an acumen we hope that the topics in this book helps strengthen.

We, as practitioners, have do this a few observations from our engagement with clients and the industry in general. These observations reflect not only on the trajectory of innovation and subsequent adoption but also challenges (and the opportunities head). These observations have been summarized in the following lists. While this summary does not represent an exhaustive list, it certainly captures the essence of the state of blockchain evolution at the time of writing of this book.

Business-related observations are as follows:

  • Despite currently...