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Understanding FastFabric: How to scale Hyperledger transactions per second

Hyperledger fabric is the most popular, production ready permissioned blockchain developed by IBM, now maintained under the Linux Foundation. Higher throughput was always a challenge for blockchain technologies, the paper tries to address this issue and put forward a couple of plug and play optimisations in the Fabric architecture to enhance its performance from 3k to 20k transaction per second.

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Getting Started with Corda DLT

This blog post tells you about what Blockchain is, and a brief introduction into one of the blockchain platforms — Corda. Few months back, one of my colleague challenged us for a LinkedIn viral question “Explain Blockchain in 10 words.” Now that i have found it , i can swiftly find my way whenever i […]

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Reverse ICO : How existing businesses can launch an ICO

ICOs are launched by blockchain startups to raise funds to develop and deploy their project and to meet the operations costs for a few initial years. Since 2013, we have seen several ICOs and reverse ICO come and go, many of those have succeeded and even more have failed. Anyhow, ICOs have helped numerous entrepreneurs to […]

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A checklist for smart contract security

In August 2021, one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists happened. Hackers stole $613 million worth of digital currency from a company named Poly Network. They exploited a vulnerability in the digital contract used by Poly Network. By exploiting this security weakness, they further damaged the organization’s smart contract security. And this eventually led to the […]

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How to launch a compliant ICO – Private ICO?

Note: This post does not provide legal advice. In any token sale, there are a host of legal requirements to consider. Please consult your own securities lawyer. “I believe every ICO I’ve seen is a security… ICOs that are securities offerings, we should regulateq them like we regulate securities offerings. End of story.” This is […]

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Understanding STOs (Security Token Offerings)

The buzz created by ICOs for past 2 years have caught the attention of almost every entrepreneur. Especially since in 2017 when it outperformed venture capital funding and became the number one method of funding blockchain organizations. The rapid growth in this particular sector has attracted a few fraudsters to come up with fake campaigns […]

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How to set up Ropsten testnet for your smart contract

Back in 1994, when Nick Szabo — a computer scientist and cryptographer from the United States developed the concept of smart contracts, probably no one had expected the disruption it is making to many industries today. A smart contract is simply a computer code running on top of a blockchain containing a set of rules under which the […]

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How to set up Oraclize in your smart contracts.

Smart Contracts are like a closed box, the code inside it cannot communicate with the external world on their own. However, it is really important for business applications that its smart contract should communicate with external APIs and data to complete the execution of the business logics. One option for allowing your smart contract to communicate with […]

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Why KYC compliance is necessary for ICO?

In the early days of ICOs, startups that used token sales to raise funds created their own set of rules and regulations as opposed to abiding by laws. This led to the rise in illegal operations like scams, frauds and money laundering as laws that regulated such sales were in its infancy and not executed […]

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