Infrastructures and Cloud-Based Solutions

In this chapter, we will cover some of the most interesting blockchain infrastructures available today for developing a blockchain-based application or launching a blockchain-based project. The Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains are not unique. Some infrastructures have appeared in the past few years, enabling fresh functionalities, such as setting conditions, defining a certain level of privacy within the network, or certifying nodes. In this chapter, we will explore some of these enterprise-grade solutions, namely Quorum, Hyperledger, Aergo, and Corda, and explore cloud-based solutions such as the IBM Blockchain Platform and Oracle Blockchain Platform, which we already mentioned in previous chapters. Here, we will also explore other Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure...