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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

Summary

So, we finally finished building our remittance platform. This chapter gives you good insight into how to build off-chain workflows that can augment blockchain platforms to build new-age solutions for the banking and finance industry. An upgraded version of this platform can be used for transparent, faster, and secure cross-border remittances by banks and other financial institutions. You can also look at it to create global payment networks that participants can connect to and remit very easily while ensuring existing KYC/AML norms are met for such remittances.

We started this chapter by looking at what a blockchain cross-border remittance system looks like and how blockchain can help eliminate many of the lacunas in the existing system. Then, we built a platform to demonstrate these benefits by leveraging the Stellar network. We looked at and set up the various components...