Summary

In this chapter, we've covered foundations of the facets of cryptography in blockchain by identifying its application in the basic blockchain architecture. This will serve as a foundation for the more advanced blockchain topics that we'll cover in later chapters.

Now that we have been introduced to the basic blockchain architecture, with cryptography as its backbone, it's time to move on to the counterpart of blockchain technology – decentralized networking. This will be covered in the next chapter and will help us to understand the use of blockchain within a trustless network.