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Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

By : Imran Bashir
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Book Image

Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

5 (3)
By: Imran Bashir

Overview of this book

Blockchain is the backbone of cryptocurrencies, it has had a massive impact in many sectors, including finance, supply chains, healthcare, government, and media. It’s also being used for cutting edge technologies such as AI and IoT. This new edition is thoroughly revised to offer a practical approach to using Ethereum, Hyperledger, Fabric, and Corda with step-by-step tutorials and real-world use-cases to help you understand everything you need to know about blockchain development and implementation. With new chapters on Decentralized Finance and solving privacy, identity, and security issues, as well as bonus online content exploring alternative blockchains, this is an unmissable read for everyone who wants to gain a deep understanding of blockchain. The book doesn’t shy away from advanced topics and practical expertise, such as decentralized application (DApp) development using smart contracts and oracles, and emerging trends in the blockchain space. Throughout the book, you’ll explore blockchain solutions beyond cryptocurrencies, such as the IoT with blockchain, enterprise blockchains, and tokenization, and gain insight into the future scope of this fascinating and disruptive technology. By the end of this blockchain book, you will have gained a thorough comprehension of the various facets of blockchain and understand the potential of this technology in diverse real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Index

Advances in smart contract technology

Since the first availability of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, significant development to create newer contract programming languages and improve existing languages has been made. Solidity, Ethereum’s smart contract programming language, has been enhanced with new features and improvements.

Parallel execution of smart contracts is a significant area of research to improve scalability of blockchain. Solana blockchain introduced “sea level”, a technology for parallel execution of smart contracts, which helps increase the scalability and performance of blockchain. Sea level is a runtime that allows parallel execution of smart contracts on GPU cores available to a validator.

DAML is a new Haskell based functional programming language for blockchain which supports novel features like sub transaction privacy, parallel transaction processing, scalability, ledger pruning, and high availability. The focus of DAML is to focus...