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2020 CordaCon Dev Highlights — Day Two

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2020 CordaCon Dev Highlights — Day One

On October 20, we kickstarted our annual flagship event…

DLT Performance Considerations

Here we are, the broader “Blockchain” community, a few years into our pursuit of private, permissioned…

Certificate revocation and expiry

As we prepare for the first Corda compatibility zone, R3Net, we have been receiving questions from customers about our planned approach to certificate revocation and expiry. This blog post is not a formal certificate policy document, but outlines some of our thinking so…

Compatibility and upgrades

Business networks and compatibility zones

Many P2P blockchain systems have some concept of a “network” — a set of configuration parameters that have to be shared for nodes to talk to each other. In the Bitcoin protocol these are things like the hash of the…

Continuations and the JVM

The Corda flow framework provides a lot of functionality for implementing complex multi-party workflows, which are a key part of essentially every blockchain/DLT-based app. The framework is built on top of another open source library called Quasar, produced by a company called…

Corda, SQL and NoSQL

Corda differs from other platforms in numerous ways, but one of the most visible is our usage of relational database technology. Sometimes people query this — aren’t we swimming against the tide, which seems to be flowing away from SQL and conventional databases?