 Hi, good evening everyone. My name is Ravi. I'm the co-founder CEO of Zeef and I have with me Ghan Vashisht He's the co-founder CTO of Zeef Today we are here to talk about the challenges of managing infrastructure in the blockchain space especially for enterprises First a bit about that we have come a long way. We started in blockchain space in 2016 and and at that time you know 17, 18, 19 it was mostly about POC's pilots and Now fortunately in last two years. We are seeing a lot of production Implementation so we are obviously past that stage where nobody is talking about whether blockchain can play a role in enterprises or not There are quite a few use cases, which are well established. There are quite a few production implementations that are going that are happening one of the Deloitte study shows that Blockchain is one of the top five strategic priorities for enterprises But there are quite a few challenges to blockchain adoption in enterprises and overall and one of the major challenges managing the blockchain infrastructure And if you talk about some of the core challenges one The way some of the enterprise blockchains are implemented most of the nodes of the infrastructure resides in one common cloud within the organization and That goes on it's against the tenets of decentralization. So what we see is that decentralization per se is missing When we talk about a consortium use case the use case itself There's an implicit Architecture in the use case that even if the use case has been started by one organization still Rest of the party should have an independence where they can host their own nodes creating a decentralized or distributed structure second cost and time Manually deploying a Hyperledger or any other permissioned blockchain network takes a huge amount of time at the same time It takes a lot of cost and there's a lot of ongoing cost and I will talk about the cost in the next slide there's a huge cost of setting up huge cost of owning it and Still there are no standards of benchmarks that one can leverage to set up a very standardized blockchain infrastructure One of the core challenges complexity of scaling So once you have set up the infrastructure how to scale up because all the networks start small They start with six to ten nodes But as more and more parties join the consortium the number of nodes needs to scaled up as well as when the number of Transactions keep on increasing then again you require scaling up. So we in web-to-world have been used to AWS and other other means where you know we can scale up scale down on on the will same kind of infrastructure same kind of features we require in the enterprise blockchain networks Complex to understand and adopt the lack of expertise How to deploy a very standardized deployment architecture how to make it decentralized etc. So that know how expertise skillset is still lacking and And and sometimes, you know for small to mid-sized companies. It does not make even sense to hire all those skillsets So it's cost prohibitive at times and then as I mentioned, you know lack of standards for security and optimization because we have seen we have few banking customers and and one of the banking customer in Singapore mentioned that now we have finally got around cloud implementing in the in the bank and Talking about blockchain talking about these distributed networks is altogether and another ball. So there are no standards How to manage security if you talk about health care institutions or other financial institutions? They don't know how to manage when the some of the nodes are going to be hosted outside how to still manage all the regulatory compliances and security within the network and as About the cost. So cost is not just about deploying a network. That's still I would say a one-time build-up cost But pose that there's a huge amount of monitoring analytics etc. Is required once the network has been deployed you require a network which is of enterprise enterprise great quality in terms of throughput in terms of performance in terms of security and optimization and at the same time you would like to scale up anytime as you want and Then you know especially when you are working with fabric as more and more organizations join your consortium Requiring more organizations how to connect them using into your node and one of the challenge practical challenge people face Is when they scale up the consortium is That you require a heterogeneous node to cloud deployments because when you are when one of your Consortium partner joins your network They may be using a different cloud or they may want to set up the network on premise or within a private data center now how to manage That kind of onboarding is again a very big pain point when we talk about enterprise level consortiums So what we need is not a Plain vanilla automation framework what we require is a is a much more configurable Highly automated and which seamlessly integrates with the underlying cloud as well as on-premise cloud environments so what we require is that in-depth configuration so that Once you go to a console you are not you're pretty much relying on that console to do everything Whether you are deploying on one cloud environment whether you're clouding deploying on multiple cloud environments everything should be able to You would be able to manage using the same platform same console and then you know Inviting onboarding consortium partners on the chain again should be very seamless Because otherwise what happens is it the owners falls on the consortium owner that how to Deploy a node for an external party and then you know bring that node manage all the access controls etc within the larger network and And heterogeneous cloud deployment is of course A need because nobody wants to get locked in into one single cloud and at the same time in quite a few industries There is a pressing need of on-premise or private data center cloud deployments Security practices as I mentioned cannot be stressed enough Even with blockchain infrastructure there you require server hardening You require all kind of security and compliance is to be built into the into the deployment itself So there's no point in having Deploying a network using a different tool and then you know applying all the security features on top of it And then analytics and proactive monitoring is something which is very much required to ensure that the health of the network is fine And you would be able to proactively monitor to see if Some of the other node is out of sync or is not behaving as it's supposed to or somebody is having access controls which then they are not supposed to and Then control of cost and time to market. You know as we know in this comparative market. Everybody needs that so that is where Zeef comes in we started in blockchain space in 2016 and Initial three to four years. We did a lot of consulting work with quite a few enterprises in financial services supply chain manufacturing retail Telecom energy and utilities quite a few industries and during that time, you know One of the job was to build POC's pilots deploy the networks run the pilots and and we found Infrastructure management as one of the pressing need Because the expectation in the enterprise is the same whether we move from web to do web three The expectations are of same high throughput security scalability Performance etc. So we wanted so we built Zeef as an internal tool initially for our own customers and then we realized this is a wider problem and Started seeing a lot of traction. So Zeef is a low-code SAS platform that allows you to Deploy blockchain networks on the fly We support multiple clouds all the top major clouds as well as on-premise deployments. We support multiple Blockchain protocols including all the permissions quite a few Products out of the suite of hyper ledger R3 Coda Flurry dragon chain and we are adding more and more protocols in the permission site And not just that we are also supporting 20 plus public protocols and some of the hybrid deployments like flurry with fabric or Fabric with the theorem different kind of hybrid deployments. We are supporting on the fly and We have very sophisticated proactive monitoring and analytics that allows you to not just do a cloud resource monitoring but also the monitoring of the blockchain resources and Then in addition to that the way AWS did for cloud on the same way We have we have built quite a few web services that can be directly Integrated within your application. So for example decentralized storage. So if you want to connect Let's say you are storing any use case where you need to store the digital assets the underlying digital assets On IPFS kind of storage. You don't need to spin off your own nodes We have a ready service which is backed by hundreds of IPFS nodes running We have both public as well as private kind of deployment for IPFS We simply use that service plug it into the application and that's it. We have decentralized governance We have IOT as a service and quite a few services that you can plug it into your application to build the application much faster We have 15,000 plus Developers and web-free startups using the platform 25 plus enterprises who are running large consortiums using our platform So this is a larger snapshot of the Some of features that we have today and then you know gun will talk about some of the roadmap items that we are going to bring in Specifically for hyper ledger fabric. So on the network and security side We have multiple cloud provisioning. So on the same network, you can have different clouds deployed Different nodes deployed on different cloud environments and those cloud environments may be within your organization may be outside the organization There's a one click node deployment. It's highly configurable. You can see all the configurations So if we talk about fabric, which is much more complex in terms of configurations, you get hundred percent of the configurations out of the console You will never need to go back into your cloud environment to make additional changes or configurations So I'll pick up from here and I'll talk about, you know, what is underneath, you know The engine which powers even, you know, what gets you all those benefits which we just talked about So this stack, you know, the focus of the stack is decentralization Like, you know, we've been speaking from the very beginning that the enterprise ecosystem, of course, it's limited It's focused, but then, you know, whatever Expansion it requires, it has to be decentralized in the sense that, you know, it's well distributed under different ownerships and yet monitored So we ensured that, you know, this stack, you know, which offers you all these asset tokenization Decentralized IOT speak one line about decentralized IOT is that, you know, when we do supply chain use cases We say that, you know, the data is coming out of Amazon cloud IOT or Azure IOT cloud Which is taking up from, you know, some truck shipment somewhere for the freshness of the goods But then, you know, you're centralizing it if you're pushing it into the IOT cloud and then consuming back into the smart contracts or chain codes for, you know SLAs and other kind of, you know, chain code based functionalities So we ensured that, you know, you can directly push the data into the nodes Through these, you know, specific chain codes which you can deploy and consume And then, you know, the trusted execution is a must for this stack to have Then distributed KYC because you're onboarding multiple organizations and when you do that You need a, you know, wider reach how your platform is monitoring The nodes which you own, but at the same time the other party is able to monitor the nodes they own and as in whole, they also see That there are some other organizations which in place, they don't control it completely But they at least see they're there, their health status and all because this network as one is what is running the use case So everybody is playing their role, but as one, they are, you know, they are to be monitored as a one network Then, you know, the products which we offer under XIV is the permission protocols There are multiple vSupport and the, you know, data APIs So if you're deploying a supply chain use case on Apple Azure Fabric and you would require certain analytics out of, you know, the ledger Which is not given by the platform explicitly because platform, you know, does analytics on resources, clusters, you know, the status, the blocks, the latencies of different parameters Then, you know, these APIs would give you enhanced capability so that you can pull the data out of the ledger About, you know, those specific use case parameters, the supply chain, the traceability parameters and create further analytics on top of it Which could be application specific, you know, use case specific, which might be required on your own front end applications, mobile application or the web application Then you got, you know, ZDFS, Ravi, already spoke about it It's give you the capability if you're doing a supply chain use case and you need to store good street notifications You need to store POs and invoices in digital form because they're tokenized on the chain That's what your use case does. If it's a trade finance use case, you're doing a lot of, you know, letter of credit clearance and all parties are there You want to store those documents in a way that they're always accessible, easily accessible and yet distributed So you can consume these APIs right away Then there's, you know, CI CDPs at the bottom I'll talk about it in a bit when I'll show you the screenshots But this is, you know, very critical to what happens after you have set up a network Because your dev team would run into you and will ask you that how do I start getting, you know, injecting my chain codes into it How would I upgrade my chain codes once deployed and what if the ownership is already distributed You as one organization might be running some orders and peers into your own, you know, cloud But then other stakeholders would be running it in their own So, you know, there's the seamless upgrade on instantiation of chain codes consistently happen While you still benefit from the legacy tools, your team is already using like, you know, Git, Jenkins, Nexa and others So we have a very specific CLI design for, you know, to solve the purpose of, you know, the challenges which you have in blockchain-specific CI CD It's like, you know, compatible with the legacy and then yet give you the coverage on what do you need for a blockchain implementation So these are, you know, we were learning every day from these customers of ours and they are like, you know, well-spread It's not just Hyperlegia Fabric over here. It's like, you know, R.C. Koda, it's Hyperlegia Bezu over here and a lot many other protocols And so many use cases straight finance, FinTech, supply chain, we got, you know, some Metaverse use cases as well in here And we're learning from every day and we're improving our platform to serve better and in more optimized fashion as possible So it's a quick case study, you know, it's a trade finance ecosystem, we are powering, it's live already, it's a Singapore based ecosystem And what I would point at is that, you know, we have saved them 45% on their cost on running the consortium It's a consortium, multi-party consortium, and we saved them 80% time when they wanted to go to the market It was just, you know, it was just 80% reduction in time we have them achieve and scale So every next onboarding they had to do in their trade finance consortium, be it another bank, another exporter, importer It was very easy, very seamless without exposing, you know, the cryptographic artifacts and things explicitly over emails and this and that way So it happened very seamlessly, so of course securely and we help them reduce a lot of time There are other benefits, but I think I'll focus on these two, you know, for the session's sake Now I'll, you know, run into how all this happens What do you get, what do you see when you sign up on Z, it's completely DIY Of course there are certain things which are very specific, we are experimenting and we are, you know, upgrading continuously So our team comes in and helps you there, but these are DIY things that you get on the platform You can create a network and as detailed as that you can have, you know, peers getting configured with, you know, the level DB Couch Lib DB configurations available to you, you can have persistent storages available to you for these services You can download the blockchain data, the artifacts to extend the network manually So Zeev is not a lock-in, it's not like you come on Zeev, you get stuck, no You still can scale your network manually if you want to So it's not a dependency which we are passing on to you, it's a flexibility which we are allowing you to have But then you can still scale manually if you require Then, you know, the visual topology is out there and it's pretty dynamic You see whatever is happening in your network, if it is a scaling, more organization is being added, you see it there You may or may not control them, for example, you can restart your own nodes, reset them, you can change things there But delete them and maybe add more, but you cannot do it with the other organizations, but you would see them still And this would tell you, you know, what nodes are thinking or not And these connectivities, these are real So if some node gets out of the network, you would know, you would see it as well And the platform will start, you know, giving you a lot of notifications if you would want them And then, you know, this fits in even to this kind of, you know, a complex implementation So regardless of how many, you know, services you're running, how many organizations you're having, how bigger you're getting Of course it's better for your business, but the platform ensures that, you know, it remains better for your business Then you got, you know, all sort of monitoring analytics punched in right there So your DevOps team, your engineering team, they don't have to, you know, 24-7, you know, have sleepless nights worrying about what is happening They can, you know, simply get to this dashboard anytime they get a notification and they need to ensure that everything is fine Or every morning they can sip coffee and just look at this dashboard and feel safe And don't worry about their bosses ringing them and telling them, no, the network is already done, what have you been doing? And this gives you analytics not just at the cluster level, I mean, Kubernetes cluster level or the resource level Which is running in some cloud, Azure, AWS or Google, but it gives you the analytics on the node level as well For example, the block count, the latency of transactions and those kind of details And this is the CLI which I was talking about So we did support, you know, Node.js, Golang-based smart contracts uploading into the panel and all But then we created this CLI specifically because, you know, we've been developers ourselves And we know what developers love They need the sound of the keyboard into their ears all the time And this CLI ensures that With this CLI, they can, you know, connect their old legacy tool chains like GitHub, Jenkins, Nexa and all And then punch all the chain codes into the network consistently Every time they upgrade, release a bug fix or a patch And this propagates across the network very seamlessly And this is what is coming at Zeev next So a plethora of features on Appalachia Fabric including the DMZ-based security architecture which is very enterprise-focused And these protocols So a checkbox and you'll have cactus adapters available to your fabric deployments when you do it after this release Thank you for, you know, listening to all this This is Zeev and we are present across the US, Dubai, India and in Europe as well now So you can connect us and we'll help you out, you know, with all the challenges you have with your fabric networks I think this is it This is it for the day One last thing, you know, we have a booth here We are having, you know, $3,000 credits free for you to start your fabric networks You can come there, we'll give you those credits And you can see the demonstration explore more with us