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Published inJan 2020
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Ishan Roy
Ishan Roy
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Ishan Roy

Ishan Roy leads the Blockchain initiative at the Centre of Excellence for Emerging Technologies (CEET) at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA). He is currently working on the Tamil Nadu Blockchain Backbone project. His foray into blockchain began in the year 2016, at the blockchain team at ICICI Bank. This team carried out the first blockchain remittance in India. Since then he has worked as the Head of Products at HashCash Consultants where he built blockchain-enabled financial solutions for global clients. He has also mentored students and industry veterans as a blockchain trainer with Edureka. He is extremely passionate about technology and loves to keep himself abreast of new developments in the field through the community
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Issuing the trading assets

In our exchange, we'll allow the user to buy or sell the gold asset using US dollars. Thus, gold will be our counter asset, that is, the asset that is being bought or sold. US dollars will be our base asset, that is, the asset that is being used to buy or sell.

Before we can build a trading exchange around these assets, we need to create these assets on our blockchain. To do so, we'll create an ERC20 token that represents gold, and an ERC20 token that represents USD. The tokens are fungible and fixed in nature, and can go up to two decimal places. One gold token represents one gram of gold, and one USD token represents one dollar.

Writing the contracts

We'll be using the OpenZeppelin...

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Published in: Jan 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838829094

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Ishan Roy

Ishan Roy leads the Blockchain initiative at the Centre of Excellence for Emerging Technologies (CEET) at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA). He is currently working on the Tamil Nadu Blockchain Backbone project. His foray into blockchain began in the year 2016, at the blockchain team at ICICI Bank. This team carried out the first blockchain remittance in India. Since then he has worked as the Head of Products at HashCash Consultants where he built blockchain-enabled financial solutions for global clients. He has also mentored students and industry veterans as a blockchain trainer with Edureka. He is extremely passionate about technology and loves to keep himself abreast of new developments in the field through the community
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