Hyperledger Fabric
Fabric's interpretation of a smart contract is called chaincode, which is programmable code that can be deployed on any Hyperledger Fabric network. It is executed on the network and validated during the consensus process by validator nodes. You can use chaincodes to develop business contracts, asset definitions, and decentralized applications that can be managed by the whole consortium. Smart contracts are executed when they are associated in a transaction by the endorsing peers of the network. These can be submitted by clients using the available peer APIs. In contrast to Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric supports uninstalling and upgrading chaincodes (to a newer version). In a future release, a chaincode will be able to be ...
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