Index

A

• abstract contracts / Abstract contracts
• Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) / Diving into K8s
• Amazon Web Services / Introduction to cloud computing
• arrays / Arrays
• atomic swap smart contracts
  • USD, locking / Atomic swap smart contracts
  • for USD / Atomic swap smart contracts
• Automated Clearing House (ACH) / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) / Diving into K8s

B

• Bank Identifier Code (BIC) / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
• BigchainDB / BigchainDB
• BigNumber.js library / BigNumber.js
• binary Merkle tree / What is a Merkle tree?
• blockchain
  • advantages / What is a blockchain?
  • forking / What is forking in blockchain?
• blockchain interoperability
  • about / Understanding blockchain interoperability
  • implementation strategies / Strategies for implementing blockchain interoperability
• Block Collider / Understanding blockchain interoperability
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance

C

• cell phone number
  • using, as identity / Using a cell phone number as identity
• centralized EMR management systems
  • versus decentralized EMR management systems / Centralized versus decentralized EMR management systems
• client, for ownership contract
  • building / Building a client for the ownership contract
  • project structure / The project structure
  • backend, building / Building the backend
  • frontend, building / Building the frontend
  • testing / Testing the client
• cloud computing
  • about / Introduction to cloud computing
  • advantages / Introduction to cloud computing
• cloud provider / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
• cloud solutions
  • comparing / Private versus public versus hybrid cloud
• consensus protocol / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• consortium DApp / What is a DApp?
• constellation
  • about / Private contracts and constellation
  • installing / Installing Quorum and constellation
• containers / What are containers?
• contract events
  • retrieving / Retrieving and listening to contract events
  • listening to / Retrieving and listening to contract events
• contracts
  • creating, new operator used / Creating contracts using the new operator
  • features / Features of contracts
  • compiling / Compiling and deploying contracts
  • deploying / Compiling and deploying contracts
  • working with / Working with contracts
• Corda
  • about / Corda
  • transaction validity / Transaction validity
• CorDapps / Corda
• Cosmos / Understanding blockchain interoperability

D

• DApp
  • advantages / What is a DApp?
  • requisites / What is a DApp?
  • examples / What is a DApp?
  • architecting, for EMRs / Architecting DApp for EMRs
  • building / Building the DApp
• DApp, for EMRs
  • smart contracts for access control / Smart contracts for identity and access control
  • smart contracts for identity / Smart contracts for identity and access control
  • Python scripts, writing for testing smart contracts / Writing Python and JS scripts for testing
  • JS scripts, writing for testing smart contracts / Writing Python and JS scripts for testing
• Database as a Service (DBaaS) / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
• data locations, Solidity / Data locations in Solidity
• data types, Solidity
  • about / The different types of data
  • arrays / Arrays
  • strings / Strings
• decentralized EMR management systems
  • versus centralized EMR management systems / Centralized versus decentralized EMR management systems
• delete operator / The delete operator
• deployments
  • creating / Creating deployments and services
• Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) / InterPlanetary File System
• Distributed Hash Table (DHT) / InterPlanetary File System
• Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) / What is a blockchain?
• Docker
  • about / Introduction to Docker
  • reference, for installation instructions / Building a Hello World Docker container
  • registry / Pushing images to Docker Hub
  • repository / Pushing images to Docker Hub
  • tag / Pushing images to Docker Hub
• Dockerfile
  • working / Building a Hello World Docker container
• Docker Hub
  • about / Introduction to Docker
  • images, pushing to / Pushing images to Docker Hub
• Docker image
  • building / Building a Hello World Docker container

E

• election timeout / Raft consensus
• Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
• Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
  • DApp, architecting for / Architecting DApp for EMRs
• elementary types / Conversion between elementary types
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) / Ethereum accounts
• EMR data management and sharing systems
  • about / Introduction to EMRs data management and sharing systems
  • limitations / Limitations of EMR data management and sharing systems
• ether
  • about / Overview of Quorum
  • sending / Sending ether
• Ethereum / Ethereum
• Ethereum accounts / Ethereum accounts
• ether units / Ether units
• Everledger / Everledger
• exceptions / Exceptions
• external function call / External function calls

F

• fallback function / The fallback function
• features, contracts
  • visibility / Visibility
  • function modifiers / Function modifiers
  • fallback function / The fallback function
  • inheritance / Inheritance
• FedCoin
  • building / Building a FedCoin
• fiat currency
  • digitalizing / Digitalizing fiat currency
• fork
  • about / What is forking in blockchain?
  • regular fork / What is forking in blockchain?
  • soft fork / What is forking in blockchain?
• forking
  • in blockchain / What is forking in blockchain?
• function modifiers / Function modifiers

G

• genesis block / Overview of Quorum
• globally-available variables
  • block and transaction properties / Globally-available variables, Block and transaction properties
  • address-type-related variables / Address-type-related variables
  • contract-related variables / Contract-related variables
• gossip data dissemination protocol / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0

H

• hash locking / Hash locking
• hash table / Mappings
• Hello World app
  • deploying, on K8s / Deploying the Hello World app on k8s
• Hello World Docker container
  • building / Building a Hello World Docker container
• hybrid cloud / Private versus public versus hybrid cloud
• Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
  • about / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
  • reference / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
• Hyperledger Sawtooth / Hyperledger Sawtooth

I

• IBFT network
  • building / Building your first IBFT network
  • genesis block, creating / Creating a genesis block
  • nodes, starting / Starting nodes
  • validator, adding / Adding or removing a validator dynamically
  • validator, removing / Adding or removing a validator dynamically
• IBFT tools
  • installing / Installing IBFT tools
• images
  • pushing, to Docker Hub / Pushing images to Docker Hub
• Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
• implementation strategies, blockchain interoperability
  • single custodian / Single custodian
  • multisignature federation / Multisignature federation
  • sidechain / Sidechains or relays
  • relays / Sidechains or relays
  • hash locking / Hash locking
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
• inheritance / Inheritance
• integrity / Proof of existence, integrity, and ownership contract
• InterBank transfers
  • settlement / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
  • working / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
  • clearance / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
• Interledger / Understanding blockchain interoperability
• internal function call / External function calls
• interoperable blockchains
  • achieving / What can interoperable blockchains achieve?
• InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) / InterPlanetary File System
• Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerence
  • about / Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerence
  • reference / Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerence

K

• K8s
  • about / Diving into K8s
  • benefits / Diving into K8s
  • resource objects / Getting into resource objects
  • deployment / Deployments and pods
  • pods / Deployments and pods
  • services / Services
  • Ingress controllers / Ingress controllers and resources
  • resources / Ingress controllers and resources
  • secrets / ConfigMaps and secrets
  • ConfigMaps / ConfigMaps and secrets
  • bind mount / Bind mounts and volumes
  • persistence volumes / Bind mounts and volumes
  • labels / Labels and selectors
  • selectors / Labels and selectors
  • Hello World app, deploying on / Deploying the Hello World app on k8s
• K8s dashboard
  • accessing / Accessing the K8s dashboard
• K8s master exposes APIs
  • nodes, creating / Creating nodes using the K8s APIs
• Keccak-256 hash / Ethereum accounts
• Key Management Service (KMS) / The NuCypher PRE library
• kubectl command
  • download link / Installing minikube on Windows

L

• LevelDB / What is a blockchain?
• libraries
  • about / Libraries
  • use cases / Libraries
• light client verification technology / Sidechains or relays

M

• macOS
  • minikube, installing on / Installing minikube on macOS
• mappings / Mappings
• Merkle root / What is a Merkle tree?
• Merkle tree / What is a Merkle tree?, Sidechains or relays
• microservices architecture
  • about / Understanding the microservices architecture
  • benefits / Understanding the microservices architecture
• Microsoft Azure / Introduction to cloud computing
• minikube
  • installing, on macOS / Installing minikube on macOS
  • installing, on Ubuntu / Installing minikube on Ubuntu
  • installing, on Windows / Installing minikube on Windows
  • starting / Starting minikube
  • stopping / Stopping and deleting minikube 
  • deleting / Stopping and deleting minikube 
  • status, checking / Minikube status
• MultiChain / MultiChain
• multiple values
  • returning / Returning multiple values

N

• network permissioning
  • in Quorum / Network permissioning in Quorum
• new operator
  • contracts, creating / Creating contracts using the new operator
• nodes
  • creating, K8s master exposes APIs used / Creating nodes using the K8s APIs
• NuCypher PRE library
  • about / The NuCypher PRE library
  • installing / Installing the library
  • using / Using the library

O

• one-to-one pegs / What can interoperable blockchains achieve?
• Oraclize / Single custodian
• orderer / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
• OSN / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
• ownership contract / Proof of existence, integrity, and ownership contract

P

• paper-based medical records
  • issues / Problems with paper-based medical records
• Parity / Parity
• payment system
  • overview / Overview of the payment system
• permissioned blockchain, use cases
  • Everledger / Popular blockchain use cases, Everledger
  • Walmart's food tracking / Walmart's food tracking 
  • Ghana's land registry / Ghana's land registry 
  • Dubai's housing rental / Dubai's housing rental 
  • Project Ubin / Project Ubin
• permissioned blockchain platforms
  • about / Popular permissioned blockchain platforms
  • Ethereum / Ethereum
  • Quorum / Quorum
  • Parity / Parity
  • MultiChain / MultiChain
  • Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
  • BigchainDB / BigchainDB
  • InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) / InterPlanetary File System
  • Corda / Corda
  • Hyperledger Sawtooth / Hyperledger Sawtooth
• permissioned DApp / What is a DApp?
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
• Polkadot / Understanding blockchain interoperability
• PRE
  • data privacy, ensuring in blockchain / Ensuring data privacy in a blockchain using PRE
• private blockchain / What is a blockchain?
• private cloud / Private versus public versus hybrid cloud
• private contracts / Private contracts and constellation
• private transactions
  • downsides / Private contracts and constellation
• Project Ubin / Project Ubin
• Proof-of-Authority (PoA) / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• Proof-of-Stake (PoS) / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• Proof-of-Work (PoW) / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• Proof of Concepts (PoCs) / BigchainDB
• Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET) / Hyperledger Sawtooth
• proof of existence / Proof of existence, integrity, and ownership contract
• public cloud / Private versus public versus hybrid cloud
• public DApp / What is a DApp?

Q

• QaaS
  • building / Building QaaS
• QNM
  • working / How does QNM work?
  • containerizing / Containerizing QNM
  • deployment, creating / Creating QNM deployment and service mainfest files
  • service mainfest files, creating / Creating QNM deployment and service mainfest files
• queued transaction / Sending ether
• Quorum
  • about / Quorum
  • overview / Overview of Quorum
  • installing / Installing Quorum and constellation
  • network permissioning / Network permissioning in Quorum
• Quorum Network Manager (QNM)
  • about / Building QaaS
  • reference / Building QaaS
• Quorum networks
  • building / Building the network

R

• Raft consensus / Raft consensus
• Raft network
  • building / Build your first Raft network
  • constellation network setup / Setting up a constellation network
  • enodes, generating / Generating enodes
  • account, creating / Creating an account
  • genesis block, creating / Creating the genesis block
  • nodes, starting / Starting nodes
  • nodes, adding / Adding or removing nodes dynamically
  • nodes, removing / Adding or removing nodes dynamically
• Recursive Length Prefix (RLP)
  • reference / Compiling and deploying contracts
• regular fork / What is forking in blockchain?
• relays / Sidechains or relays
• resource objects, K8s / Getting into resource objects
• resources, K8s API
  • functions / Getting into resource objects
• Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) / Ethereum accounts

S

• services
  • creating / Creating deployments and services
• sidechain / Sidechains or relays
• Simple Byzantine Fault Tolerance (SBFT) / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
• smart contract
  • about / Overview of Quorum
  • structure / The structure of a smart contract
  • fiat currency, digitalizing / Smart contracts to digitalize fiat currency, Building the DApp
  • testing / Testing
• Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT)
  • reference / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
• soft fork / What is forking in blockchain?
• Software as a Service (SaaS) / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
• Solidity
  • about / Overview of Quorum
  • data locations / Data locations in Solidity
  • data types / The different types of data
• Solidity source files
  • about / Solidity source files
  • importing / Importing other Solidity source files
• StatefulSets / Bind mounts and volumes
• strings / Strings
• super keyword / The super keyword
• Swarm / Introduction to web3.js

T

• transaction / What are Ethereum transactions?
• transaction endorsement / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
• transaction fees / What are Ethereum transactions?
• Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) / Hyperledger Sawtooth
• two-way pegs / What can interoperable blockchains achieve?

U

• Ubuntu
  • minikube, installing on / Installing minikube on Ubuntu
• Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXO) / What are UTXOs?
• user accounts
  • representing / Representation of user accounts 
• using for directive / using for

V

• var
  • using / Using var
• VirtualBox
  • download link / Installing minikube on Windows
• Virtual Machines (VMs)
  • provisioning / What are containers?

W

• web3.js
  • about / Introduction to web3.js
  • reference / Introduction to web3.js
  • importing / Importing web3.js
  • connecting, to nodes / Connecting to nodes
  • API structure / The API structure
  • unit conversion / Unit conversion
  • gas price, retrieving / Retrieving gas price, balance, and transaction details
  • address balance, retrieving / Retrieving gas price, balance, and transaction details
  • transaction details, retrieving / Retrieving gas price, balance, and transaction details
  • ether, sending / Sending ether
• Whisper / Introduction to web3.js
• Windows
  • minikube, installing on / Installing minikube on Windows
• worker nodes / Diving into K8s