Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

Blockchain as a Service

With the current level of maturity of cloud platforms, many companies have started to provide Blockchain as a Service (BaaS). The most prominent examples are Microsoft's Azure, where Ethereum blockchain is provided as a service, and IBM's Bluemix platform, that provides IBM BaaS. This trend is only expected to grow in the next few years, and more companies will emerge that provide BaaS. Electronic Government as a Service (eGaaS) is another example which is, in fact, BaaS but provides application-specific blockchains for governance functions (http://egaas.org). This project aims to organize and control any activity without document circulation and bureaucratic overhead.