Hyperledger Announces 8 New Members, Host of Project Updates
- Among the new members are companies such as Telefónica, Tech Mahindra, and ETC Cooperative.
- Hyperledger has not only hit its 15 project milestone, but has also seen growing development and traction across its different projects.
Brian Behlendorf, executive director of the Hyperledger Foundation, speaking at a Linux Foundation conference. Linux Foundation
Eight new members will join the open-source blockchain project Hyperledger, which is hosted by the Linux Foundation. The list of new companies that are becoming part of the multi-venture, multi-stakeholder collaboration includes Telefónica, Tech Mahindra, ETC Cooperative and others.
This announcement is coming in line with several other project-related news like the Hyperledger Avalon introduction and the releases of Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.2 and Sawtooth PBFT 1.0, as well as updates to Hyperledger Quilt and Hyperledger Burrow.
Also, last month a Hyperledger Bootcamp event took place in Moscow, Russia. Adding to all of this, the Hyperledger Certified Service Provider (HCSP) program was launched, providing professional services and support in regards to Hyperledger deployments.
“The fourth quarter has been busy on many fronts,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger. “We’ve hit the 15 project milestone with the introduction of Hyperledger Avalon, and are seeing growing development and traction across our other projects. We have also launched our Hyperledger Certified Service Provider program to boost deployment speed and efficiency for enterprises. Now, this diverse line-up of new members adds even more depth and breadth to our community and momentum to our efforts to advance the state of enterprise blockchain technologies.”
Hyperledger, with its open-source distributed ledger framework and code bases, enables companies to produce stable software and hardware platforms specific to their industry, and assists them with the processing of their business transactions.
The new community members currently joining the project are ETC Cooperative, Ledger Leopard, BondEvalue, Tech Mahindra, LimeChain, Telefónica, Bloc Watch, and Vonechain Technology.
Hyperledger welcomes any organization that shares its values of openness, teamwork and cooperation to join the project. It even offers free-of-charge membership to some non-profit, open-source and government institutions.
- DLA Piper successfully completed the first tokenization project on TOKO, featuring a fine art piece.
- The platform’s transaction ordering will be utilized by deploying a Hyperledger Fabric network in the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, connecting to Hedera Hashgraph.
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- Starting on 16 November, with a discussion between Michael del Castillo and Brian Behlendorf, the event will conclude on 15 December.
- The discussion to look out for will be on 9 December, and is titled “The Future of Money: Bringing CBDC’s and Other Virtual Currencies to Reality”.
- Other members of the new Trust over IP Foundation include the Province of British Columbia, the University of Arkansas, and R3.
- The ToIP Foundation hopes to assist businesses in protecting and managing digital assets and data through the use of digital identity models.