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Oracle Blockchain Quick Start Guide

By : Vivek Acharya, Anand Eswararao Yerrapati, Nimesh Prakash
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Oracle Blockchain Quick Start Guide

By: Vivek Acharya, Anand Eswararao Yerrapati, Nimesh Prakash

Overview of this book

Hyperledger Fabric empowers enterprises to scale out in an unprecedented way, allowing organizations to build and manage blockchain business networks. This quick start guide systematically takes you through distributed ledger technology, blockchain, and Hyperledger Fabric while also helping you understand the significance of Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS). The book starts by explaining the blockchain and Hyperledger Fabric architectures. You'll then get to grips with the comprehensive five-step design strategy - explore, engage, experiment, experience, and in?uence. Next, you'll cover permissioned distributed autonomous organizations (pDAOs), along with the equation to quantify a blockchain solution for a given use case. As you progress, you'll learn how to model your blockchain business network by defining its assets, participants, transactions, and permissions with the help of examples. In the concluding chapters, you'll build on your knowledge as you explore Oracle Blockchain Platform (OBP) in depth and learn how to translate network topology on OBP. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with OBP and have developed the skills required for infrastructure setup, access control, adding chaincode to a business network, and exposing chaincode to a DApp using REST configuration.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we delved into ledgers, blockchain definitions, blockchain structure, and layers. We also glanced at blockchain structure, blocks, transactions, and how blocks are added to the blockchain. We have familiarized ourselves with actors, components, and algorithms in blockchain. We also tried to coin the term distributed double-entry (also known as triple-entry). Chapter 2, Construing Distributed Ledger Tech and Blockchain, will enlist use cases on blockchain and Hyperledger and help us identify a possible approach for them. Enterprises are exploring the immense opportunities of DLT and blockchain, and they acknowledge the strategic and long-term benefits of this distributed technology; however, there are various challenges tagged with DLT and blockchain that need to be mitigated before it is adopted by enterprises. Although there are challenges, there is a wide array of opportunities available. As the trust and benefits of DLT and blockchain grows, businesses will explore and engage more in adopting DLT/blockchain. Let's delve into Chapter 2, Construing Distributed Ledger Tech and Blockchain, and explore the plethora of opportunities DLT-like blockchain offers by addressing various use cases.