Blockchain is misunderstood in enterprise because it is sold as a database replacement. It is not. It is a trust primitive — and understanding that one reframe changes which problems it is actually worth solving.

In this session Naval covers the three cases where blockchain earns its complexity: multi-party settlement without a trusted intermediary, immutable audit trails where the auditor is also a participant, and tokenised incentive systems for communities and supply chains. He then walks through the architecture of a production DApp on Azure: the smart contract layer (Solidity), the middleware (Web3.js / Ethers.js), the front end, and the Azure Kubernetes deployment that makes it operationally manageable.

Based on the session delivered at Global Azure Bootcamp 2019, Pune.

Level: Intermediate | Tags: Blockchain, Smart Contracts, DApps, Azure, Web3, Ethereum