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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

Setting up the bank domains

Before we can set up the individual components of the remittance platform, we need to have a developing and testing environment in place. As per Stellar's architecture, the components need to be linked to a public domain owned by the financial institution/bank. For our current project, we'll link the bank infrastructure to banka.com and bankb.com for Bank A and Bank B, respectively. To do so, we'll update the hosts file so that it routes requests to banka.com and bankb.com to our localhost. We'll also issue self-signed SSL certificates for these two domains. Stellar requires that the compliance information exchange between the two bank domains is signed and encrypted using an SSL certificate. Lastly, we'll host a Toml file in these two domains that will be used to route incoming requests to the bank infrastructure. Let&apos...