Blockchain Development — Getting Started
This guide is for developers who want to start in blockchain development but don’t know what and where to begin. I will help you show the most interesting roads you can take. But… when you have made a choice after this article, there is still a lot of research and self-educating to do. This article is not intended to convince you to use blockchain instead of other technologies, it is only to help you get in the right direction if you already made the decision you want to develop in blockchain.
Some directions you can go
- Smart contracts (e.g. Solidity, Chaincode)
- Distributed ledgers (e.g. Hyperledger Fabric, Corda)
- Payment protocols (e.g. Bitcoin, Ripple, Stellar)
- Blockchain programming (e.g. C++, Golang, Java)
There are more directions to choose but the ones listed above are the most common.
Smart contracts
Smart contracts are programs that execute exactly as the way they are set up to by the makers of it. They can function, for example, as an agreement between users, provide a base for other contracts, store information, ICO’s or for like election voting.
