Blockchain has enjoyed a lot of hype, and we are now observing some of the excitement that came out of this hype coming to fruition in the form of well-established practices, frameworks, tools, and live use cases. Understanding the current landscape of blockchain and its current offerings helps us to assess the ability to convert the emerging requirements into products, with less friction to the market.
In this chapter, we explored what blockchain is, and we are now confidently able to identify the similarities and differences between DLT and distributed databases. We also observed different types of design patterns within open and private blockchain with practical examples. We enumerated multiple blockchain projects, cryptocurrency implementations, frameworks, and tools.
In the next chapter, we will introduce you to the contemporary basics of AI, and we will observe different types and forms of AI, as well as more applications of AI.