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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)

Challenges of traditional technologies and solutions

The evolution of a human being to being able to understand exchanging value has its roots in the level of uncertainty. The greater the uncertainty, the less the trust in the exchange of value. The higher the certainty, the greater the exchange of value. There are various traditional challenges that blockchain tries to solve, such as trust, intermediaries, confidentiality, robustness, resilience, and availability. Let's go over them now:

  • Trustless: When you deal with a centralized system, you place trust on the system and the underlying set of people and machines that are responsible for taking care of the system and its security. Your inherent trust is in the organization you are dealing with. For example, we are using an email service for many years and sometimes send important personal emails as well. We have inherent...