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Blockchain for Enterprise

By : Narayan Prusty
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Blockchain for Enterprise

By: Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

The increasing growth in blockchain use is enormous, and it is changing the way business is done. Many leading organizations are already exploring the potential of blockchain. With this book, you will learn to build end-to-end enterprise-level decentralized applications and scale them across your organization to meet your company's needs. This book will help you understand what DApps are and how the blockchain ecosystem works, via real-world examples. This extensive end-to-end book covers every blockchain aspect for business and for developers. You will master process flows and incorporate them into your own enterprise. You will learn how to use J.P. Morgan’s Quorum to build blockchain-based applications. You will also learn how to write applications that can help communicate enterprise blockchain solutions. You will learn how to write smart contracts that run without censorship and third-party interference. Once you've grasped what a blockchain is and have learned about Quorum, you will jump into building real-world practical blockchain applications for sectors such as payment and money transfer, healthcare, cloud computing, supply chain management, and much more.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Building Blockchain Using Quorum

In the previous chapter, we saw what a DApp, DLT, and blockchain are. We also saw an overview of some popular blockchain-based DApps. At present, Ethereum is the most popular public DApp after Bitcoin. In this chapter, we will learn how to build permissioned blockchain-based DApps using Quorum. We will learn about Quorum in depth by exploring all the various consensus protocols it supports, its permissioning and privacy features, and finally, tools that enable us to quickly deploy a Quorum network.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • User accounts in Ethereum
  • What is a Merkle tree and what is it used for in blockchain?
  • How do Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerant (IBFT) and Raft work?
  • Various mechanisms supported by Quorum to achieve privacy
  • Setting up constellation, Raft, and IBFT networks
  • Various third-party tools or libraries related to Quorum