Quorum
Quorum is an open source enterprise blockchain platform. It is a lightweight fork of Ethereum. Quorum not only benefits from the innovation and research being done in the upstream public Ethereum (Geth) project, but also many excellent enterprise features have been introduced in Quorum. These enterprise features primarily focus on providing enterprise-grade privacy, performance, and permissioning (access control).
In this section, we'll explore Quorum's architecture in detail and see a practical example of how to set up a Quorum network. First, let's take a look at Quorum's architecture.
Quorum addresses three fundamental issues in public blockchains, which makes Quorum an excellent choice for enterprise use cases:
- Privacy
- Performance
- Enterprise governance
At a high level, the Quorum architecture consists of nodes and their associated privacy managers. The Quorum node is a modified and enhanced version of public...
