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Blockchain Development for Finance Projects

You're reading from  Blockchain Development for Finance Projects

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838829094
Pages 530 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Ishan Roy Ishan Roy
Profile icon Ishan Roy

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Blockchain Payments and Remittances
2. Blockchain in Financial Services 3. Building a Blockchain Wallet for Fungible and Non-Fungible Assets 4. Designing a Payment Gateway for Online Merchants 5. Corporate Remittances and Settlement 6. Enabling Cross-Border Remittances with Real-Time KYC/AML Verification 7. Section 2: Blockchain Workflows Using Smart Contracts
8. Building a Letter of Credit Workflow Module Using Smart Contracts 9. Section 3: Securing Digital Documents and Files Using Blockchain
10. Building a Tamper-Proof Document Storage System 11. Section 4: Decentralized Trading Exchanges Using Blockchain
12. Building a Decentralized Trading Exchange 13. Developing a Currency Trading Exchange for Market Making 14. Looking into the Future 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Application Checklist

Understanding ERC20 and ERC721 smart contract standards

To understand ERC20 and ERC721 contract standards, first, let's look at the concept of fungibility. Fungibility is used to describe the property of an asset where individual units do not hold a special value and can be replaced with another unit of the asset. A good example of this a 10 dollar bill. If you have a 10 dollar bill and I have a 10 dollar bill, they both hold the same value, which is 10 dollars. The bill would not have a higher or lower value depending on who is the owner of the bill. The bills can replace each other very easily. Hence, a 10 dollar bill is a fungible asset. All currency is essentially fungible in nature.

Now, take the case of a different kind of asset. If both of us owned a 400-square foot apartment and yours was in New York City and mine in New Delhi, the monetary value of both the apartments...

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