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Narayan Prusty
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Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.
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Understanding blockchain interoperability


Interoperable blockchains are blockchains that can talk to each other. Each blockchain can read the other's state. There will be many occasions when you will want to enable your smart contracts to talk to centralized or other decentralized apps. When we talk about interoperability between DApps we're talking about something different than interoperability between blockchains.

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Enabling an Ethereum smart contract to check whether a file exists in IPFS or not is enabling interoperability between DApps, whereas enabling an Ethereum smart contract to fetch a Bitcoin account balance is enabling interoperability between blockchains.

Getting Ethereum smart contracts to make REST APIs call to centralized apps is considered enabling interoperability between Ethereum and WWW. But in this chapter, we will learn about interoperability between blockchains, specifically interoperability between Quorum networks.

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Narayan Prusty

Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.
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