Decentralizing Trust: Consortium Blockchains and Hyperledger Fabric Explained

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Autores principales: Vera-Rivera, Angelo, Hossain, Ekram
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author Vera-Rivera, Angelo
Hossain, Ekram
author_facet Vera-Rivera, Angelo
Hossain, Ekram
contents Trust models are essential components of networks of any nature, as they refer to confidence frameworks to evaluate and verify if their participants act reliably and fairly. They are necessary to any social, organizational, or computer network model to ensure truthful interactions, data integrity, and overall system resilience. Trust models can be centralized or distributed, each providing a good fair of benefits and challenges. Blockchain is a special case of distributed trust models that utilize advanced cryptographic techniques and decentralized consensus mechanisms to enforce confidence among participants within a network. In this piece, we provide an overview of blockchain networks from the trust model perspective, with a special focus on the Hyperledger Fabric framework, a widespread blockchain implementation with a consortium architecture. We explore Fabric in detail, including its trust model, components, overall architecture, and a general implementation blueprint for the platform. We intend to offer readers with technical backgrounds but not necessarily experts in the blockchain field a friendly review of these topics to spark their curiosity to continue expanding their knowledge on these increasingly popular technologies.
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spellingShingle Decentralizing Trust: Consortium Blockchains and Hyperledger Fabric Explained
Vera-Rivera, Angelo
Hossain, Ekram
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Trust models are essential components of networks of any nature, as they refer to confidence frameworks to evaluate and verify if their participants act reliably and fairly. They are necessary to any social, organizational, or computer network model to ensure truthful interactions, data integrity, and overall system resilience. Trust models can be centralized or distributed, each providing a good fair of benefits and challenges. Blockchain is a special case of distributed trust models that utilize advanced cryptographic techniques and decentralized consensus mechanisms to enforce confidence among participants within a network. In this piece, we provide an overview of blockchain networks from the trust model perspective, with a special focus on the Hyperledger Fabric framework, a widespread blockchain implementation with a consortium architecture. We explore Fabric in detail, including its trust model, components, overall architecture, and a general implementation blueprint for the platform. We intend to offer readers with technical backgrounds but not necessarily experts in the blockchain field a friendly review of these topics to spark their curiosity to continue expanding their knowledge on these increasingly popular technologies.
title Decentralizing Trust: Consortium Blockchains and Hyperledger Fabric Explained
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06540