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Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241067
Pages 818 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
Profile icon Imran Bashir

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Blockchain 101 2. Decentralization 3. Symmetric Cryptography 4. Asymmetric Cryptography 5. Consensus Algorithms 6. Bitcoin Architecture 7. Bitcoin in Practice 8. Smart Contracts 9. Ethereum Architecture 10. Ethereum in Practice 11. Tools, Languages, and Frameworks for Ethereum Developers 12. Web3 Development Using Ethereum 13. The Merge and Beyond 14. Hyperledger 15. Tokenization 16. Enterprise Blockchain 17. Scalability 18. Blockchain Privacy 19. Blockchain Security 20. Decentralized Identity 21. Decentralized Finance 22. Blockchain Applications and What’s Next 23. Index

Hyperledger

Hyperledger is not a blockchain but a project that was initiated by the Linux Foundation in December 2015 to advance blockchain technology. This project is a collaborative effort by its members to build an open source distributed ledger framework that can be used to develop and implement cross-industry blockchain applications and systems. The principal focus is to create and run platforms that support global business transactions. The project also focuses on improving the reliability and performance of blockchain systems.

This chapter will, for the most part, discuss Hyperledger projects, and their various features and components. As Hyperledger is so vast it’s not possible to cover all projects in detail in this short chapter. As such, we will introduce a variety of the projects available, and then provide detailed discussions on Hyperledger Fabric. Projects under the Hyperledger umbrella undergo multiple stages of development, going from proposal, to incubation...

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