Generating channel artifacts

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 ...

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