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Advanced Blockchain Development

By : Imran Bashir, Narayan Prusty
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Advanced Blockchain Development

By: Imran Bashir, Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger with applications in industries such as finance, government, and media. This Learning Path is your guide to building blockchain networks using Ethereum, JavaScript, and Solidity. You will get started by understanding the technical foundations of blockchain technology, including distributed systems, cryptography and how this digital ledger keeps data secure. Further into the chapters, you’ll gain insights into developing applications using Ethereum and Hyperledger. As you build on your knowledge of Ether security, mining, smart contracts, and Solidity, you’ll learn how to create robust and secure applications that run exactly as programmed without being affected by fraud, censorship, or third-party interference. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll explore how blockchain solutions can be implemented in applications such as IoT apps, in addition to its use in currencies. This Learning Path also highlights how you can increase blockchain scalability, and discusses the future scope of this fascinating and powerful technology. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be equipped with the skills you need to tackle pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle and confidently design and deploy decentralized applications.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
15
Blockchain - Outside of Currencies
16
Scalability and Other Challenges
Index

Platforms and frameworks


This section covers various platforms that have been developed to enhance the experience of existing blockchain solutions.

Eris

Eris is not a single blockchain, it is an open modular platform developed by Monax for development of blockchain-based ecosystem applications. It offers various frameworks, SDKs, and tools that allow accelerated development and deployment of blockchain applications.

The core idea behind the Eris application platform is to enable development and management of ecosystem applications with a blockchain backend. It allows integration with multiple blockchains and enables various third-party systems to interact with various other systems.

This platform makes use of smart contracts written in Solidity language. It can interact with blockchains such as Ethereum or Bitcoin. The interaction can include connectivity commands, start, stop, disconnection, and creation of new blockchains. Complexity related to setup and interaction with blockchains have been...