Build your voting
application using
Blockchain
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IBM Digital – Nation program.
My areas of interest are AI, Blockchain,
and APIs & Microservices.
HASHIM NOOR
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What is a Blockchain?
• Blockchain is a distributed ledger
technology, that replicates a digital ledger
across all network participants who
collaborate to maintain the ledger.
• The ledger contains all the transactions
submitted to the Blockchain
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What is a Ledger?
Ledgers are THE system of record for a business.
Businesses/Individuals will have multiple ledgers
for the multiple networks in which they participate.
Examples:
• Sales Ledger
• Purchase Ledger
• Expenses Ledger
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The Problem…
Participant Bank
A’s records Participant records
B’s records
Insurer Regulator Auditor
records records records
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The Solution…
Participant Participant Bank
A’s records B’s records records
Blockchain
Insurer Regulator Auditor
records records records
… with consensus, provenance, and immutability
High-level
Overview
Components of Blockchain
Shared Ledger
• Records all transactions across the network
• Shared between participants
• Participants have their own copy through replication
• Permissioned, so participants see only appropriate transactions
Smart Contract
• Business rules implied by the contract embedded in the Blockchain
• Executed with the transaction
• Verifiable, signed and encoded
Assets
• Digital representations of commodities that are recorded on the ledger.
Participants
• All the stakeholders in the blockchain network
Set up Hyperledger Composer
Define Components
Demo
Add Participants
Add Assets
Cast your votes
High-level Overview
Voting
Application
Front-End Hyperledger
Composer
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Advantages of Blockchain for voting
• Integrity: Every person is allowed on 1 vote
• Fairness: A person cannot cast a vote under someone else’s
name
• Votes cannot be changed once casted
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