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Blockchain for Enterprise

You're reading from  Blockchain for Enterprise

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788479745
Pages 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Title Page
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Contributors
Preface
1. What are Decentralized Applications? 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 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Understanding blockchain interoperability


Interoperable blockchains are blockchains that can talk to each other. Each blockchain can read the other's state. There will be many occasions when you will want to enable your smart contracts to talk to centralized or other decentralized apps. When we talk about interoperability between DApps we're talking about something different than interoperability between blockchains.

Note

Enabling an Ethereum smart contract to check whether a file exists in IPFS or not is enabling interoperability between DApps, whereas enabling an Ethereum smart contract to fetch a Bitcoin account balance is enabling interoperability between blockchains.

Getting Ethereum smart contracts to make REST APIs call to centralized apps is considered enabling interoperability between Ethereum and WWW. But in this chapter, we will learn about interoperability between blockchains, specifically interoperability between Quorum networks.

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