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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

Creating the corporate remittance app frontend in React

We need to create a frontend that will interact with the backend server and allow users to submit transactions and view submitted transactions.

The app should render three screens:

The Bank login screen

The Transfer screen

The View Transactions screen

The user logs in using the Bank login screen. They can either log in as Acme Inc or Apex Corp, by clicking on the Acme Inc. button or the Apex Corp button.

After logging in, they land on the Transfer screen. Here, they can initiate a new transfer request by filling in the details of the remittance, including the receiver's name, account number, bank and address, and the transaction amount and currency. They also need to upload the compliance documents, which include the invoice document, BOE/BOL, and any other document they want.

On clicking on Submit, a new remittance...