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Drew McLellan: He’s an independent Consultant Web Performance Engineer from Leeds in the UK. In his role, he helps some of the world’s largest and most respected organizations deliver faster and more reliable experiences to their customers. He’s an invited Google Developer Expert, a Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, an award-winning developer, and an international speaker. So we know he knows his stuff when it comes to web performance, but did you know he has 14 arms and seven legs? My Smashing friends, please welcome Harry Roberts. Hi Harry, how are you?
Harry Roberts: Hey, I’m smashing thank you very much. Obviously the 14 arms, seven legs… still posing its usual problems. Impossible to buy trousers.
In this article, John Agbanusi explains how you can build a Node.js API from scratch by building and deploying an Ethereum Blockchain for decentralization. He also shows you a step-by-step process of integrating both the API and blockchain into a single API called a “decentralized application API”.
Blockchain technology has been on the rise in the past ten years, and has brought a good number of products and platforms to life such as Chainalysis (finance tech), Burstiq (health-tech), Filament (IoT), Opus (music streaming) and Ocular (cybersecurity).
From these examples, we can see that blockchain cuts across many products and use cases making it very essential and useful. In fintech (finance tech), it’s used as decentralized ledgers for security and transparency in places like Chain, Chainalysis, and is also useful in health tech for the security of sensitive health data in Burstiq and Robomed not to forget media tech such as Opus and Audius that also use blockchain for r