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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

Notable projects


Following is a list of notable projects in the blockchain space that is currently in progress. In addition to these projects, there is also a myriad of start-ups and companies working in the blockchain space and offering blockchain-related products.

Zcash on Ethereum

A recent project by the Ethereum R&D team is the implementation of Zcash on Ethereum. This is an exciting project whereby developers are trying to create a privacy layer for Ethereum using ZK-SNARKs already used in Zcash project. With Zcash implementation on Ethereum, the aim is to create a platform that allows applications such as voting where privacy is of paramount importance.

It will also allow the creation of anonymous tokens on Ethereum that can be used in a number of applications.

CollCo

This is a project developed by Deutsche Borse which is based on the Hyperledger code base and is used for managing commercial bank cash transfers. Collateralized Coin (CollCo) provides a blockchain-based platform that...