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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

Blockchain layers and attacks

In this section, we’ll look at how we can see blockchain as a layered architecture to study security issues, attacks, and mitigation.

  • Hardware layer: This is the core hardware on which a blockchain network node runs.
  • Network layer: This is the core network layer on which blockchain protocols run. This layer includes protocols like TCP/IP, P2P, UDP, and other relevant services and protocols.
  • Blockchain protocol layer: This is the blockchain layer where consensus, transaction execution, incentive management, and mining processes run.
  • Blockchain application layer: This is the layer that consists of smart contracts and virtual machines, e.g., EVMs for executing smart contracts. DAPPs also exist at this layer, and so on.
  • Interface layer: This layer includes bridges, oracles, governance, user interfaces for Web3 DAPPs, and APIs. While these components could possibly exist in the blockchain application layer, I think...