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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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Building the private test Stellar network

For building our project, we'll launch a simple Stellar network that contains a single blockchain node and a single client/server. The blockchain node in Stellar is called Stellar Core, while the client-server is called Horizon. Horizon is a client API server that extends a suite of handful endpoints, allowing application developers to view transaction data and statistics, and to submit transactions to the core blockchain node. Similar to web3-js, Stellar has a JavaScript SDK that allows us to build requests in order to interact with Horizon.

Stellar provides a handy Docker image that can be used to quickly launch an ephemeral (temporary) or persistent (permanent) container for implementing the Stellar network. This Docker container contains an instance of Stellar Core, an instance of Horizon, installed dependencies such as PostgreSQL...

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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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