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Blockchain Quick Reference

By : Mariko Amekodommo, Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt
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Blockchain Quick Reference

By: Mariko Amekodommo, Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt

Overview of this book

Blockchain Quick Reference takes you through the electrifying world of blockchain technology and is designed for those who want to polish their existing knowledge regarding the various pillars of the blockchain ecosystem. This book is your go-to guide, teaching you how to apply principles and ideas for making your life and business better. You will cover the architecture, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), tokens, smart contracts, and terminologies of the blockchain technology, before studying how they work. All you need is a curious mind to get started with blockchain technology. Once you have grasped the basics, you will explore components of Ethereum, such as ether tokens, transactions, and smart contracts, in order to build simple Dapps. You will then move on to learning why Solidity is used specifically for Ethereum-based projects, followed by exploring different types of blockchain with easy-to-follow examples. All this will help you tackle challenges and problems. By the end of this book, you will not only have solved current and future problems relating to blockchain technology but will also be able to build efficient decentralized applications.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Hyperledger and Enterprise Blockchains

Unlike most of the other blockchain systems discussed in this book, Hyperledger never had an Initial Coin Offer (ICO) and has no tokens that are publicly traded. This is because Hyperledger isn't a blockchain itself, but instead a collection of technologies used for the creation of new blockchains. Moreover, these blockchain technologies were explicitly designed and built for enterprise use cases and not the public markets.

In this chapter, we will cover the following items:

  • The history of Hyperledger
  • Critical details about each of the six current Hyperledger projects
  • An overview of the Hyperledger tools used to support the ecosystem
  • Suggestions on how to select Hyperledger technologies for a project

The Hyperledger name doesn't apply to a single technology, but rather a collection of blockchain technologies all donated to the...