Node.js Projects

Chapter 12. Music Label Blockchain Market

This chapter covers the following:

• Building your own blockchain architecture

• Designing a marketplace with a tokenized ledger

• Integrating Web3 for scalable and secure transactions

In this chapter, you’ll build a Node application that explores the blockchain architecture and how it can be adapted with JavaScript. Through a bare-bones implementation, you’ll learn how to conceptualize a blockchain and incorporate its fundamental methods. You’ll build a prototype marketplace that supports blockchain transactions and learn about how your Node application facilitates a decentralized network of exchanges through a distributed ledger. By constructing the foundational elements of a blockchain, such as the smart contract, cryptographic puzzle, consensus logic, and general ledger, you will better understand how Node and JavaScript help make this architecture possible.

In the latter half of the chapter, you’ll use industry-standard tools like Web3, the Ethereum blockchain network, and Solidity to create smart contracts and integrate your Node application to a wider audience. You’ll better grasp how blockchain is used today and how its use in a marketplace is differentiated from its prominent use in cryptocurrency exchange. If you’re already familiar with blockchain, this chapter will reinforce your knowledge on the technical side. Otherwise, this short and sweet exposure will get you up and running with blockchain and eventually “mining your ...