If you have reached this far, congratulations! You have built the core of your blockchain application and the smart contract that directly reads, and more importantly, manipulates, the ledger that is the System-of-Record for your network. But, you are not close to finishing yet. As you can imagine, the contract is a sensitive piece of code that must be protected from misuse or tampering.
To produce a robust and secure application that is safe to release to business users, you must wrap the smart contract with one or more layers of protection and engineer it as a service that clients can access remotely through appropriate safeguards. In addition, the various stakeholders that wish to share a ledger ...