To create a network according to an organization's structure, and to bootstrap a channel, we will need to generate the following artifacts:
- A genesis block, containing organization-specific certificates that serve to initialize the Fabric blockchain.
- Channel configuration information.
- Anchor peer configurations for each organization. An anchor peer serves as a fulcrum within an organization, for cross-organization ledger syncing using the Fabric gossip protocol.
Like the crypto-config.yaml file, channel properties are specified in a file labeled configtx.yaml, which in our source code can be found in the network folder. The high-level organization of our trade network can be found in the Profiles section as ...