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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

SSI-specific blockchain projects

In this section, we describe ASBCs that are developed specifically for facilitating an SSI ecosystem.

Hyperledger Indy, Aries, Ursa, and AnonCreds

The Hyperledger identity stack consists of Indy, Aries, Ursa, and AnonCreds, which are flexible and can interoperate with other layers in the SSI stack:

  • Hyperledger Indy was the Hyperledger foundation’s first blockchain framework that targeted identity use cases. It is a public permissioned blockchain specifically built for decentralized identity use cases. It can build and publish DIDs, VCs, and other similar elements of the blockchain.
  • Hyperledger Ursa grew out of Hyperledger Indy as a separate project, which consists of cryptography components of Hyperledger Indy. Now it’s a separate project, used by not only Indy but also other projects that need cryptography components. Ursa contains the cryptographic components to be used by Indy, Aries, and any other project...