Blockchain For Business with Hyperledger Fabric

Preface

Blockchain and Decentralization

• Definitions
• Cryptocurrency
• Bitcoin
• Blockchain
• How Bitcoin works
• Wallets
• Basics of blockchain
• Mining in blockchain
• Cryptography
• Building blocks of blockchain
• Blocks
• Transactions
• Smart contracts
• Virtual machine
• Nodes
• Peer-to-peer network
• State machine
• Consensus
• Structure of blockchain
• Working of Blockchain
• Fundamentals of secure transaction processing
• Decentralization
• History of decentralization
• Decentralization using blockchain
• Decentralized ecosystem
• Blockchain for enterprise
• Enterprise blockchain platforms
• Considerations for using blockchain
• Distributed systems
• Byzantine Generals problem
• Types of blockchains
• Summary

Introduction to Hyperledger and Composer

• Blockchain for business
• Advantages of Hyperledger Fabric
• Problems with existing blockchain technology
• Hyperledger Fabric architecture
• Consensus in Hyperledger
• Hyperledger tools
• Hyperledger Composer
• Hyperledger components
• Hyperledger application using Composer
• Composer query language
• Fabric Composer Playground
• Summary
• References

Basics of Hyperledger Fabric

• Hyperledger and blockchain
• Blockchain for enterprises
• Hyperledger frameworks and tools
• Fabric and its components
• How does a transaction happen in Hyperledger Fabric?
• Difference between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and permissioned blockchain
• Hyperledger Fabric releases and differences
• Fabric 0.6
• Fabric 1.0
• Fabric 1.1
• Fabric 1.2
• Fabric 1.3
• Fabric 1.4 LTS
• World state and states
• Membership service provider (MSP)
• Generate MSP certificates and their signing keys
• Node.js SDK for Hyperledger Fabric
• Peers returning transaction proposal
• Chaincode in Node.Js
• Init(stub) Asynchronous
• Invoke(stub) Asynchronous
• Summary
• References

Frameworks, Network Topologies, and Modeling

• Unlisted company network in Hyperledger
• Hyperledger network and application model
• Blockchain network
• Build a sample network
• Creating network from scratch
• Certificate authority
• Network administration node
• Consortium definition
• Channel for consortium
• Adding peers and ledgers to network
• Client/application and chaincode
• Exploring Hyperledger frameworks
• Hyperledger Sawtooth
• Hyperledger Fabric
• Hyperledger Indy
• Hyperledger Burrow
• Hyperledger Iroha
• YAC consensus algorithm
• Transaction privacy and security
• Understanding pre-requisites
• Docker
• Process of creating Hyperledger network
• Hands-on with network
• Summary
• References

Chaincode in Hyperledger Fabric

• Demystifying chaincodes
• Chaincode for developers
• Deploying and testing the chaincode
• Chaincode best practices
• Creating a token using Convector tool
• Writing unit tests for chaincode
• Chaincode development using IBM blockchain platform
• Chaincode for operators
• Packaging the chaincode
• Creating the package
• Package signing by other owners
• Installing package
• Instantiating the chaincode
• Upgrading, starting, and stopping the chaincode
• System chaincode
• Summary
• References

Fabric SDK: Interaction with Fabric Network

• Prerequisites Start Fabric network
• Install Node.js and NPM
• Create a Node.js SDK project
• Install Fabric npm modules
• Process of working with the network
• Enrolment and registration of admin and user using CA server
• Registration and enrolment of the user
• Chaincode invoke and query
• Invoking createProperty from the chaincode
• Invoking ChangePropertyOwner from Fabric SDK
• Summary

Fabric SDK: Building End-to-End Application with Fabric Network

• Prerequisite
• Creating the API project
• Modifying our previous project files
• Creating the APIs
• Using Fabric for advanced use cases
• Creating a channel using Fabric SDK
• Joining the channel using SDK
• Instantiate the chaincode
• Summary

Fabric in Production

• Fabric deployment using Swarm
• Integrating solution for monitoring Hyperledger Explorer
• Step 1: Set up Hyperledger Fabric.
• Step 2: Set up Hyperledger Explorer.
• Step 3: Install PostgreSQL.
• Step 4: Generate the Hyperledger Fabric network.
• Step 5: Configure Hyperledger Explorer on Fabric.
• Step 6: Build Hyperledger Explorer.
• Step 7: Run Hyperledger Explorer.
• Hyperledger Fabric in Clouds
• Fabric in AWS
• Hyperledger Fabric in Azure Cloud
• IBM blockchain platform
• Summary