In this 8-video course, you will quickly learn the architecture of the most mature and widely-used of Hyperledger's current frameworks, Fabric. First, survey the beneficial features of Fabric, an enterprise-grade, general-purpose blockchain implementation, with much higher throughput capacity than found in Ethereum. Familiarize yourself with Fabric's phases of transaction flow, from the execute phase to its steps in ordering and validating transactions. Learn how to identify channel properties that enable confidential transactions and how to set up identities. Then select the best option for your company's use from the list of available mechanisms and the Fabric component network. As you progress, you will begin to understand the concept of Hyperledger Fabric's MSP-membership service provider-which establishes what the valid identities are for a network. Finally, emerge better prepared to decide whether Fabric may be the appropriate tool to use in constructing a secure network for your company's specific needs.

After reviewing the elements of blockchains and how they can store sequences of records, you will learn how to recognize Ethereum's characteristics in this 8-video course. Participants will learn how to implement important concepts such as hashing, mining, miners (who successfully mine blocks of data), smart contracts, and cryptocurrencies. Familiarize yourself in depth with the process of mining; learn how mining acts to sequence records; and become able to distinguish between centralized and distributed ledgers. You will now be able to describe the role played by Ethereum's special cryptocurrency-known as Ether-and identify the key details required when invoking transactions in the Ethereum network, which records data in a transparent and verifiable manner. By the end of this course, you will also be more proficient at recognizing the role played by mining nodes, and learn to define the special concept of gas, the term used to measure complexity of transactions.