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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)

Understanding the business scenario

Education is the foundation-building sector of human society. It also facilitates continuous upskilling of the workforce with new knowledge areas as per the needs of the changing times. Despite being one of the oldest sectors, it is still plagued with inefficiencies:

  • Multiple manual processes cause administration delays
  • Administration delays cause verification delays
  • Manual processes always introduce some doubt over the authenticity of a student's credentials

To construct a solution implemented on OBP, we have chosen a scenario in this business process that deals with the approval of qualification certificates, issuing them to students in a secure manner, and sharing them with other stakeholders (such as employers and other educational institutions) in a trusted manner.

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