Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project, is listed in the New York Times top 10 most influential leaders in the blockchain industry.
His contributions to the open source software are seen as a “game changer” to the web, and his role at Hyperledger has been crucial to set a very high standard.
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After the initial GA release back in February, the Hyperledger project has just released version 1.1 of Sawtooth, which mostly focuses on making it simpler to add new consensus algorithms and brings WebAssembly smart contracts.
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Hyperledger Fabric has caught the attention of all major cloud providers, Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger announced in his opening keynote at last week’s Hyperledger Global Forum in Basel, Switzerland. What does this say about the maturity of Hyperledger projects? Plenty!
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In a bid to expand its consortium, Hyperledger has welcomed 16 new members. Yesterday, during the Hyperledger Global Forum in Switzerland, Hyperledger announced that it is welcoming 16 new establishments to its consortium. The names of the new members are: a subsidiary cloud computing firm of Alibaba, Alibaba Cloud, We.Trade, a trade finance platform based on blockchain technology, financial services company Citi Ventures arm and Citigroup, the biggest telecommunications provider in Europe, Deutsche Telekom, BlockDao, Xooa, Guangzhishu Technology, KEB Hana Bank, Guangzhou Technology Innovation Space Information Technology, HealthVerity, Techrock, and MediConCen.
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Today Swiss Post and leading phone and internet company Swisscom announced they’re working together to build a 100% Swiss private blockchain infrastructure. They aim to enable Switzerland to attain a leading position in distributed ledger technology (DLT).
The platform will be based on Hyperledger Fabric 2, which has yet to be released. The companies also intend to make their platform available to other Swiss organizations.
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The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) have started a pilot program that uses TradeLens, a blockchain platform jointly developed by IBM and Moller-Maersk.
TradeLens runs on a permissioned blockchain built on Hyperledger Fabric. Fabric is the first blockchain system that runs distributed applications written in standard, general-purpose programming languages, (e.g., Go, Java, Node.js), without systemic dependency on a native cryptocurrency.
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Enterprise blockchain Hyperledger Fabric has introduced support for Ethereum smart contracts. Fabric is designed to be modular with four main components. These are the main ledger, the consensus mechanism, identity management, and smart contracts called chaincode. The latest announcement provides an alternative to chaincode.
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The more businesses have got involved into the blockchain ecosystem, the more platforms for DLT enterprise solutions are emerging at the market. Read the full article here.