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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 a FedCoin


FedCoin is a digital currency issued by a central bank and hedged one to one with their fiat currency. Digitalizing fiat currency using blockchain has several benefits, such as enabling easy cross-border payments, saving reconciliation efforts, and so on. 

Let's build some digitalized INR and USD on two different blockchain networks. Then, let's create some atomic swap contracts to enable the exchange of these currencies between banks atomically. This use case would require you to create two different Quorum networks using IBFT consensus. In each network there is one authority, which is the central bank, and N number of peers, which are other banks. So, you can assume that in the first network, the Federal Reserve System (FRS) is the authority and Bank of America (BOA) and ICICI banks are the peers. Similarly, in the second network, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the authority and BOA and the ICICI bank are the peers.

You don't have to build this network now because...

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