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Blockchain for Enterprise

You're reading from   Blockchain for Enterprise Build scalable blockchain applications with privacy, interoperability, and permissioned features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788479745
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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Preface 1. What are Decentralized Applications? FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Blockchain Using Quorum 3. Writing Smart Contracts 4. Getting Started with web3.js 5. Building Interoperable Blockchains 6. Building Quorum as a Service Platform 7. Building a DApp for Digitizing Medical Records 8. Building a Payment Solution for Banks 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a FedCoin

FedCoin is a digital currency issued by a central bank and hedged one to one with their fiat currency. Digitalizing fiat currency using blockchain has several benefits, such as enabling easy cross-border payments, saving reconciliation efforts, and so on. 

Let's build some digitalized INR and USD on two different blockchain networks. Then, let's create some atomic swap contracts to enable the exchange of these currencies between banks atomically. This use case would require you to create two different Quorum networks using IBFT consensus. In each network there is one authority, which is the central bank, and N number of peers, which are other banks. So, you can assume that in the first network, the Federal Reserve System (FRS) is the authority and Bank of America (BOA) and ICICI banks are the peers. Similarly, in the second network,...

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