Volkswagen is merging with a Blockchain platform to make sure that the cobalt used in the lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles is sourced in an accountable way. The firm has declared about its new involvement via press release on April 18.
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In two separate announcements last week, Google and Linux’s Hyperledger project launched tools aimed at enabling secure identity management for enterprises via mobile and other devices.
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Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf joins us on the program to explain why decentralized identities for consumers is vital for the future of global banking’s increased convenience and security. Brian has spoken on this topic at just about every blockchain, digital identity, and cybersecurity conference worldwide. Suffice to say, he is in high demand these days, so we are extremely grateful to chat with him for a few minutes.
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Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain protocol from IBM, and serves as its base of development with a modular architecture. Fabric combines different components of blockchain technology and makes them plug and play: consensus and membership services can easily be included.
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Blockchain startup Digital Asset is open sourcing its Digital Asset Modelling Language (DAML), the beating heart of projects like the partial re-plumbing of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
Announced Thursday, the move sees DA making DAML freely available – opening the door to its source code, its runtime system, and the software development kit (SDK), all under an Apache 2.0 license.
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This article is an excerpt taken from the book Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain written by Maximiliano Santos and Enio Moura. In this book, you’ll learn how to work with problem statements and learn how to design your solution architecture so that you can create your own integrated Blockchain and IoT solution.
In this article, you will learn how to install your own blockchain network using Hyperledger Fabric and Composer.
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Hyperledger is growing its society one member and one company, or in this case nine companies at a time as reported on the community’s official website. The open source project is a community collaborative effort to bring the wonders of blockchain to businesses and help advance the technology across various industries in the world today.
The announcement stated that Hyperledger will be adding the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to the community. There are currently four SIGs in operation which include Hyperledger Trade Finance Special Interest Group, Hyperledger Social Impact SIG, Smart Contract Working Group and the latest addition, Telecom SIG.
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Samsung SDS has unveiled a platform that connects Ethereum, a leading open blockchain platform, and Hyperledger Fabric, a representative closed (private) blockchain platform.
The company introduced the “Deliver” platform, the first of its kind, at Cello Conference 2019, which was an event for logistics companies, at its Pangyo building in Gyeonggi Province on March 14.
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Today the French National Council of Clerks of Commercial Courts (NCC or Conseil national des greffiers des tribunaux de commerce) announced that IBM has developed a blockchain corporate registry solution. France doesn’t have a central corporate registrar. Instead any changes to commercial and corporate records have to be submitted via the local commercial courts. The blockchain is expected to launch in the first half of 2019.
The initiative involves sharing information about two sets of data. The first is general registry data such as a change of company name, moving from one court jurisdiction to another, adding new branches and corporate dissolutions. And the second set of data relates to corporate recoveries and insolvencies.
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