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Blockchain Development for Finance Projects

By : Ishan Roy
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Blockchain Development for Finance Projects

By: Ishan Roy

Overview of this book

Blockchain technology will continue to play an integral role in the banking and finance sector in the coming years. It will enable enterprises to build transparent and secure business processes. Experts estimate annual savings of up to 20 billion dollars from this technology. This book will help you build financial apps using blockchain, guiding you through enhancing popular products and services in the banking and finance sector. The book starts by explaining the essential concepts of blockchain, and the impact of blockchain technology on the BFSI sector. Next, you'll delve into re-designing existing banking processes and building new financial apps using blockchain. To accomplish this, you'll work through eight blockchain projects. By demonstrating the entire process, the book helps you understand everything from setting up the environment and building frontend portals to system integration and testing apps. You will gain hands-on experience with the Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Stellar to develop private and public decentralized apps. Finally, you'll learn how to use ancillary platforms and frameworks such as IPFS, Truffle OpenZeppelin, and MetaMask. By the end of this blockchain book, you'll have an in-depth understanding of how to leverage distributed ledgers and smart contracts for financial use cases.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Blockchain Payments and Remittances
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Section 2: Blockchain Workflows Using Smart Contracts
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Section 3: Securing Digital Documents and Files Using Blockchain
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Section 4: Decentralized Trading Exchanges Using Blockchain
Appendix: Application Checklist

Building a Blockchain Wallet for Fungible and Non-Fungible Assets

The blockchain wallet forms the most integral part of any enterprise blockchain application. It is the customer interface of the blockchain application. It can take many shapes and forms, depending on the use case being implemented. It could be a payment wallet, a digital identity card, a land title portfolio, or an assets portfolio.

This chapter focuses on creating blockchain wallets suited for financial applications. Our wallet will be managing assets that are issued on the blockchain. These assets will be issued using pre-defined smart contract standards. For this, we will look at the ERC20 and ERC721 smart contract standards. We will learn to write, migrate, and deploy our own smart contract codes using Truffle. We will also learn to create a token wallet frontend using ReactJS, and finally, we will run the...