Besides these blockchain infrastructures (Quorum, Hyperledger, Aergo, and Corda), several IT companies started to develop cloud-based solutions to enhance user-friendliness, as well as facilitate setting up a blockchain. Instead of configuring servers and operating maintenance on a specific infrastructure on their own, a decision maker can decide to use a fully integrated service called BaaS. Investopedia defines BaaS as follows:
“Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) is an offering that allows customers to leverage cloud-based solutions to build, host and use their own blockchain apps, smart contracts, and functions on the blockchain while the cloud-based service provider manages all the necessary tasks and activities to keep the infrastructure agile and operational.”
As BaaS is gaining momentum in 2019, let's review some of the solutions currently...