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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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Concepts
Author (1):
Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
Profile icon Narayan Prusty

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page
Packt Upsell
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

Building your first IBFT network


We will build a network of six nodes. The first four will be validators and the other two will be non-validators. We will not add a constellation in this network. If you want to add one, the instructions are the same as previously. 

In IBFT, every validator is identified uniquely using an Ethereum account derived from its node key. Similar to Raft, in IBFT, before setting up the network you have to decide on the total number of validators that will be in the network and then generate an enode for each. And then, we create a static-nodes.json file listing the enodes of all the validating nodes, and feed this file to every validator in the network. After that, derive Ethereum addresses from the node IDs. And finally, we construct the extraData field and create the genesis file. 

Note

In the case of IBFT, creating the static-nodes.json file is not necessary. You can connect nodes using the admin.addPeer(url) API too.

Installing IBFT tools

The IBFT software contains...

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