Energy & Mines Digital Trust, Author at Hyperledger Foundation

Sep 13

Energy & Mines Digital Trust: The Open-Source Journey Towards a Clean, Resilient Economy

By Energy & Mines Digital Trust Blog, Climate, Hyperledger Aries, Hyperledger Indy, Identity

As the world works towards climate goals, a government project from Canada is using digital trust technology to make it easier and more secure for natural resource companies to share sustainability data.

Energy & Mines Digital Trust (EMDT) was established by the Government of British Columbia in recognition that we must do more to facilitate the transition to a clean, resilient economy. British Columbia (B.C.), Canada’s western-most province, was the first province in Canada to implement greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and mandatory sustainability reporting for major sectors of the provincial economy. As leaders in climate change legislation, B.C. is well positioned to explore cutting-edge technology in the journey towards a low-carbon economy. To improve trust, accuracy, and efficiency when sharing sustainability data, EMDT is coordinating a digital ecosystem – a network of organizations including environmental auditors, government bodies, mining and energy companies, and non-government organizations.

Improved Sustainability Reporting

Currently, reporting sustainability data can be challenging. Data is difficult to exchange internationally, and consumers cannot always access, or trust, reported data, not to mention the administrative burden.

EMDT’s digital ecosystem makes it possible to exchange sustainability information simply and securely, using digital credentials.

Digital credentials:

Can be shared quickly and are tamper-proof.
Allow companies to control their data.
Guarantee the integrity of the information.
Preserve privacy in business-to-business interactions.

Digital Trust Ecosystem: EMDT Pilot

EMDT has been testing and refining their technology and governance through multiple pilot projects to demonstrate how sustainability reporting can be made more efficient and trustworthy. Two pilot projects explore greenhouse gas emissions reporting in the mining sector and the natural gas sector. These pilots allow participants to test sharing and receiving digital credentials that include verified GHG emissions data for a specific mine site or natural gas facility.

*Because this is a pilot, the process depicted in this diagram does not satisfy or replace existing regulatory reporting obligations.

The greenhouse gas (GHG) mining pilot builds upon the existing regulatory emissions reporting process in British Columbia. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), an environmental auditor, issues a digital credential to Copper Mountain Mining Company containing verified GHG data. Copper Mountain can then use the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report Verification Credential as part of their GHG emissions report to British Columbia’s Climate Action Secretariat. Copper Mountain can use the same digital credential to complete voluntary reporting to organizations such as the Open Earth Foundation.

Increased Connections

To facilitate the broad exchange of sustainability data, EMDT used Hyperledger Indy and Hyperledger Aries to create a highly interoperable tool, called Traction. Traction is an API accelerator built on top of Hyperledger Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-PY). Traction streamlines the process of sending and receiving digital credentials for governments and organizations.

Hyperledger Aries makes Traction highly interoperable with the technological solutions of companies and organizations around the world. “While two wallets might be different implementations or might be written in different code, they can still exchange data because both wallets use Aries,” explains Kyle Robinson, EMDT’s Senior Strategic Advisor.

Traction makes it easier to integrate digital trust technology into existing lines of business:

API-first Architecture: Traction is designed with an API-first architecture. This RESTful API allows for integration into existing line-of-business applications already being used by organizations. The Tenant user interface is built on this API to enable adoption prior to integration and for low-use functions.
Multitenancy: ACA-Py is implemented on a cloud-based server so multiple wallets can be managed with one Traction instance.
Higher Scalability: Traction is open-source technology, encouraging collaborative refinement, faster release, and higher scalability of the technology.

Collaborative Climate Change Progress

With an increasing emphasis on responsibly sourced products, simplified methods for exchanging sustainability data ensures that B.C. natural resource providers can compete in a global market. Digital trust technology streamlines access to trustworthy sustainability data, allowing businesses, governments, and non-government organizations to work towards climate change goals more efficiently and effectively. Visit our website to learn more about Energy & Mines Digital Trust.

Sep 13

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Learn the Fundamentals of Self-Sovereign Identity in Free Online Training Course

By Hyperledger Blog, Identity

This post originally appeared on the Linux Foundation Training and Certification blog.

Our digital identities are part of who we are. Technology has become so pervasive in everyday life that individuals want and need the ability to better manage their online digital identity. Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a concept that puts users at the center of their digital identity, giving them control over it which helps increase privacy, security and trust in a technology or organization. SSI is growing in popularity as more online websites and applications implement the practice in their user experience.

We want to make it easier for companies to implement SSI for the benefit of their users, so Linux Foundation Training & Certification has announced a new upcoming online training course, Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity (LFS178x). The six-to-seven hour course, which will be available to audit for free for 10 weeks on the edX learning platform, provides a solid foundation on SSI with a 360 degree overview of its evolutionary journey, key concepts, standards, technological building blocks, use cases, real-world examples and implementation considerations. Pre-enrollment is open now, with course content becoming available on October 5.

This course is designed for business and government decision makers looking to understand SSI and make decisions about it; technologists seeking to get a high level overview of SSI, and professionals wanting to understand how digital identity systems work and how SSI is making a difference. Upon completion, participants will be able to have informed business discussions around digital identity, and particularly self-sovereign identity, with a good understanding about how identity systems work and influence our lives. You will also be able to identify innovative ideas and solutions for leveraging SSI, and be better positioned for further technical learning around digital identity.

Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity was developed by Kaliya Young and Lucy Yang of Identity Woman, which works to bring about the creation of a layer of identity for people based on open standards. Kaliya, widely known as Identity Woman, is an expert in decentralized/self-sovereign identity who has committed her life to the development of an open standards based layer of the internet that empowers people. In 2005, Kaliya co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) to bring together technologists who want to see decentralized identity come into being. Lucy joined the COVID Credentials Initiative (CCI) on day one and has since led its operations and communications. She played an instrumental role in taking CCI into Linux Foundation Public Health. Lucy also serves on the board of MyData Global, an award-winning international non-profit championing personal data empowerment, and co-founded the MyData Canada Hub, where she is actively involved in strategic development and operations.

Enroll today and start learning October 5 how your organization can modernize your digital identity practices.

Sep 13

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Hyperledger Global Forum Provides Launch Point for Development and Deployment News from Across Expanding Ecosystem

By Hyperledger Announcements, Hyperledger Global Forum

Announcements Include Launch of Hyperledger Solang, Release of Hyperledger FireFly 1.1, Details on Hyperledger Besu Ethereum Client Incentive Program, Introduction of Free Self-Sovereign Identity Training Course

SAN FRANCISCO and DUBLIN, (September 13, 2022) – Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, today announced news from across its diverse and expanding ecosystem at Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 (#HyperledgerForum, HGF). From launches and releases on the Hyperledger project front to new products, partnership, deployments and innovations from Hyperledger Members, there is a surround sound of developments being unveiled at this week’s event.

The opening keynote today addresses one of the biggest developments on the horizon. The talk, Hyperledger Besu and the Upcoming Merge, will feature Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation and Hart Montgomery, CTO of the Hyperledger Foundation.

Other keynotes taking place today include:

Blockchain as a Public Good: How Public Infrastructure Networks are Driving Adoption and Making an Impact across Europe and Latin America – Juan Jiménez Zaballos, Alastria; Ilan Melendez Lugo, LACChain / LACNet; Hilary Carter, Linux Foundation
ESG with a Bit of Help from Indy – Dr. Andreas Kind, Vice President Cybersecurity & Trust, Siemens AG
Decentralized Identity: Where We Are and Where We Going – Heather Dahl, CEO, Indicio; Kaliya Young, Identity Expert, Identity Woman; Marie Wallace, Distinguished Engineer, IBM; Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services, Avast

Free live streaming of keynotes is available here.

“The energy and excitement of the global Hyperledger community is on full display here at Hyperledger Global Forum,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “From demos and workshops to keynotes and case studies, there is endless evidence of the scope and scale of what we are building together and the growing market impact of this collective work. And, as this line-up of news from across the community shows, we are just getting started. The innovation and adoption will only accelerate from here.”

Project and Ecosystem News

New Project: Hyperledger Solang

The Hyperledger Technical Steering committee approved a new project, Hyperledger Solang, which is a compiler for Solidity source code and targets different blockchains. The Solidity programming language is the most popular language for smart contracts, and there is clear interest from many blockchains to have support for it. Although some blockchains emulate an EVM environment to maintain compatibility with Solidity built with Solc, they then cannot access features that are missing from Ethereum. Hyperledger Solan offers the ability to compile Solidity to the native execution environment, opening up access to new features and creating many possibilities for innovation in the Solidity language.

Currently, Hyperledger Solang supports Solana and Polkadot (Substrate).

Hyperledger FireFly 1.1 Release

A new Hyperledger FireFly release, version 1.1, includes new functionality that makes it possible for FireFly users to deploy multiple blockchain applications connecting to multiple chains from a single console. The FireFly Supernode now supports two operation modes: Web3 Gateway and Consortium. Web3 Gateway mode configures the FireFly Supernode to connect to a number of chains with transaction orchestration and state indexing. A revamped and expanded connector framework now includes EVMconnect, a robust connector for simple connection management to public blockchains with templates available for Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, and more. Consortium mode activates a number of capabilities for FireFly nodes to connect in a B2B network and exchange data through off-chain and on-chain rails. FireFly also now supports multi-tenancy through the use of namespaces. These new features enable enterprises to accelerate their web3 adoption.

Creation of Hyperledger Cacti

In a Hyperledger first, the community has decided to merge two systems (architectures as well as code bases). Hyperledger Cactus and Weaver, a Hyperledger Lab, will come together to be Hyperledger Cacti, a multi-faceted interoperability platform that will draw on the cutting-edge technical features of Cactus and Weaver and provide a clear path forward for users of both technologies.

Hyperledger Besu Client Incentive Program Kicks Off

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has opted to include Hyperledger Besu in the Execution Layer Client Incentive Program (ELCIP) to foster the community development of enterprise-grade blockchain software. The program, which kicks off with the Merge, will provide execution-layer client teams with locked ETH in the form of live validators to be released according to certain milestones, including post-merge performance and progress towards enabling withdrawals from the beacon chain.

Hyperledger Besu is one of the top three most popular Ethereum execution clients according to Ethernode. EF is making this strategic investment to engage the Hyperledger Besu community in ensuring a diversity of clients and overall health of the network.

“The diverse community is what makes Ethereum special, empowering from builders in underserved or emerging economies to leading enterprises and beyond,” said Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director at Ethereum Foundation. “Similarly a diverse client distribution helps keep Ethereum distributed and healthy, and I applaud the Hyperledger Besu team for their Execution Layer work for Ethereum, and wish you all a great Global Forum this year.”

New, Free “Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity” Course

To make it easier for enterprises to implement Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) to put their users at the center of their digital identity, Linux Foundation Training & Certification has released a new online training course, Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity (LFS178x). The free, six-to-seven hour course is geared to business and government decision makers looking to get started with SSI on a solid foundation. The course provides a 360 degree overview of its evolutionary journey, key concepts, standards, technological building blocks, use cases, real-world examples and implementation considerations.

Hyperledger Foundation is also hosting an In-depth Member Webinar with Indicio on “Scaling verifiable digital credentials using open source technology” on October 5.

Hyperledger Member News

BTP – announced the general availability of its blockchain-backed, domain-agnostic provenance solution Chronicle. Organizations across industries can now take advantage of Chronicle’s capabilities, and keep immutable provenance records that capture the origin and life journey of their physical and digital assets, including ownership history. By recording it on a distributed ledger, provenance information becomes more trustworthy, and its management is more efficient. Chronicle is available with Hyperledger Sawtooth as its default backing ledger, with support for other industry-leading distributed ledgers in the pipeline. Read the full press release here.

BTP – upgraded its blockchain management platform Sextant, by adding support for the distributed ledger software Hyperledger Fabric 2.0. Fabric is now joining Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Sawtooth, which the company’s clients have already been using in production. Sextant’s makeover also includes a marketplace for deployments that will allow users to easily select the option that best suits their needs and use case requirements. Chronicle on Sawtooth will now appear as a new deployment option – in this marketplace – that clients can choose. Read the full press release here.

Espeo Blockchain – recently connected Microsoft Sharepoint technology with a transparent and immutable layer of Hyperledger Fabric for HLB, which is a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms. The new blockchain backend is a game changer in terms of transparency. It’s because only verified, approved and standardized data points will be added to the blockchain ledger. At the same time, users still work with the same Microsoft UI they are used to. That enables member firms to access and verify referral and project data in real-time. It also eliminates the need for a siloed process of reconciliation, which makes settlements far simpler and more reliable. More information is available at https://espeoblockchain.com/.

Indicio – recently announced the launch of Indicio Proven™, a complete, open source solution for authenticating and sharing high value data in a privacy-preserving way using verifiable digital credentials. Built on Hyperledger Aries, Hyperledger Ursa, Hyperledger Indy, AnonCreds, and DIDComm, Proven is designed to make implementing and using these open source codebases simple, providing users with a fully-owned solution that’s easy to integrate with existing systems, to innovate on, and to scale. Proven uses the Indicio Network (TempNet, TestNet, DemoNet, MainNet), a professionally maintained, enterprise grade Hyperledger Indy-based network for the exchange of verifiable credentials. Learn more at Indicio.tech.

IoBuilders – has coordinated, designed and implemented a digital bond platform as partner of the Spanish Stock exchange BME. Using the platform, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the help of BBVA, issued a two year $10 million blockchain-based bond, the first Spanish bond to be listed on a regulated market. The platform uses a private network based on Hyperledger Besu Ethereum client, where the bond and the money are tokenized, and overall security and cash payment are settled. Read more about it here.

Kaleido – has introduced support for enterprise App Chains, an exciting technology allowing the creation of highly scalable, application-specific chains that can connect to the Web3 ecosystem via bridges or rollups. The first App Chain framework to be supported on the Kaleido Platform is Polygon Edge, and we have formed a partnership with Polygon to accelerate enterprise web3 adoption. Kaleido is also pleased to announce that Hyperledger FireFly version 1.1 is now supported on Kaleido’s Blockchain Business Cloud. With the new functionality in FireFly, users will be able to manage multiple blockchain use cases from a single console and connect with leading public blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Moonbeam, Fantom and more.

The National FinTech Center at Morgan State University –announced The 3rd Annual National HBCU Blockchain and FinTech Conference. This conference is The Center’s premier event for connecting with university leaders, faculty, and students discussing today’s challenges and opportunities, and shaping the future of FinTech education and research. On November 06-08, 2022 in Orlando, FL, The National FinTech Center will provide a forum for the faculty, students, and administrators in the FinTech Center’s HBCU Network to hear and discuss the findings of sponsored research, outcomes of sponsored innovative blockchain projects at various HBCUs, FinTech workshops, and HBCU Presidents’ Summit: Digital Transformation, Research, and Education at HBCUs. Click here for more information. Any questions, please contact tyneissa.walters@morgan.edu.

SIMBA Chain – recently released SIMBA Blocks, a Smart-Contract as a Service platform. Blocks allows users to build on private, public and hybrid chains, including Hyperledger Fabric, with no chain lock-in. The SIMBA Blocks platform auto-generates virtual REST APIs that connect to smart contracts on various protocols – letting you write once and deploy to many with minor configuration. These chain-agnostic APIs simplify application integrations, reducing deployment times by weeks or months. Learn why companies like Boeing (using Hyperledger Fabric to track F/A-18 parts across four data warehouses) rely on SIMBA Chain for their blockchain solutions at simbachain.com.

Zeeve – introduced a major upgrade to its platform, a best-in-class offering for enterprise-grade Hyperledger Fabric automation. Now users can add more organizations to their deployed Hyperledger Fabric networks on runtime and scale up/down the number of nodes. Zeeve has also improved network monitoring & alerting and added the ability to directly download connection profiles of Fabric networks to applications. In addition, in addition to support for Golang, Zeeve has added NodeJS chaincodes support in CD pipelines using Zeeve CLI. Learn more:https://www.zeeve.io/blockchain-protocols/deploy-hyperledger-fabric/

Zeeve – launched IPFS as a service for decentralized applications with two options:- endpoints and dedicated nodes. The focus has been to make it very easy for any business application to switch to the power decentralized file storage without having to worry about the learning curve of infrastructure or development. This has been possible with the ZDFS (Zeeve Distributed File System) service, which allows users to have dedicated or shared endpoint services for IPFS, while ZDFS SDK makes integration with IPFS very seamless. Users can create access credentials for their applications for data APIs as well as pinning services of IPFS. IPFS comes with console-based resource management and an in-depth analysis of consumption for ZDFS services. Learn more: https://zeeve.io/zeeve-distributed-file-system/

About Hyperledger Global Forum (#HyperledgerForum)

Hyperledger Global Forum is the biggest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community. It is a unique opportunity for contributors, members, service providers and enterprise end users from around the world to meet, align, plan and hack together in person. The event is open to everyone involved or interested in using, developing or learning more about Hyperledger’s open source enterprise blockchain technologies. Attendees will hear directly from those who are actively developing and deploying Hyperledger technologies as well as technology and business leaders who are shaping the future of enterprise blockchain. They will also have the chance to talk directly with Hyperledger project maintainers and the Technical Steering Committee, collaborate with other organizations on ideas that will directly impact the future of Hyperledger Foundation, and promote their work among the communities.

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Keynote Translation), Siemens (Platinum), Digital Asset (Gold and Developer Lounge), Zeeve (Gold), AWS (Silver), BONbLOC (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), Corsha (Silver), Espeo Blockchain (Bronze), Huawei (Bronze), Kaleido (Bronze), DTTC (Diversity Scholarship), IBM (Birds of a Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community Partner), Blockchain Ireland (Community Partner), Blockchain Research Institute (Community Partner), Digital Euro Association (Community Partner), Diversity in Blockchain (Community Partner), European Blockchain Association (Community Partner), Global Blockchain Business Council (Community Partner), Kerala Blockchain Academy (Community Partner), International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (Community Partner),Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community Partner), Trust over IP Foundation (Community Partner), Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (Community Partner), Blocknews (Media Partner), BeinCrypto (Media Partner), Cointelegraph (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), Forkast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Merge by Fintech Nexus(Media Partner).

About Hyperledger Foundation

Hyperledger Foundation was founded in 2015 to bring transparency and efficiency to the enterprise market by fostering a thriving ecosystem around open source blockchain software technologies. As a project of the Linux Foundation, Hyperledger Foundation coordinates a community of member and non member organizations, individual contributors and software developers building enterprise-grade platforms, libraries, tools and solutions for multi-party systems using blockchain, distributed ledger, and related technologies. Organizations join Hyperledger Foundation to demonstrate technical leadership, collaborate and network with others, and raise awareness around their efforts in the enterprise blockchain community. Members include industry-leading organizations in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing, technology and beyond. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.

About the Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation’s projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger Foundation, RISC-V, and more, are critical to the world’s infrastructure. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Sep 12

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Meet Hyperledger Solang, a portable Solidity compiler

By Sean Young, Lucas Steuernagel, Cyrill Leutwiler Blog, Hyperledger Solang

We are excited to announce that Solang has been accepted as the latest Hyperledger® project and has been renamed as Hyperledger Solang™. The project is now formally being incubated as a top-level project by the Hyperledger Foundation™, hosted by the Linux Foundation, and has support from multiple sponsors.

Solang started in the Hyperledger Labs since we always wanted to work together with other Hyperledger projects. The very first ledger we supported was Hyperledger Burrow. Being part of Hyperledger Labs was a great way to give the project more visibility and ensure we could make use of the great tooling provided by Hyperledger. After tapping into those resources, Hyperledger Solang, a tool that enables smart contract portability, is now the newest Hyperledger project.

What is Hyperledger Solang

Hyperledger Solang is a compiler for Solidity source code and targets different blockchains.

The idea for Solang arose from early work on Hyperledger Burrow. We were trying to do things with Solidity that were not possible with the existing Ethereum Solidity compiler. Since that compiler is specific for Ethereum, there was no interest in supporting features for Hyperledger Burrow. From that problem, a portable Solidity compiler that could support many blockchains was born, making it possible to have different features depending on which blockchain is being targeted.

The Solidity programming language is the most popular language for smart contracts, and there is clear interest from many blockchains to have support for it. Although some blockchains emulate an EVM environment to maintain compatibility with Solidity built with Solc, they cannot access missing features from Ethereum that an emulated EVM environment cannot provide, such as cryptographic functions, like blake2, zero-knowledge proof and the ability to call native contracts or be called by them. Hyperledger Solang offers the ability to compile Solidity to native execution environments other than the EVM, allowing the language many new possibilities and innovations.

Currently, Hyperledger Solang supports Solana and Polkadot (Substrate).

How to use Hyperledger Solang

Hyperledger Solang compiles Solidity into a native contract and a corresponding metadata file. Deploying a compiled contract needs tooling from the corresponding target blockchain.

First follow the installation guide for installing Solang: https://solang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html and then follow the steps for Solana https://solang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/targets/solana.html or Substrate https://solang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/targets/substrate.html

For Solana, we have the @solana/solidity npm package for deploying and interacting with Solang compiled contracts. To compile Solidity for Solana, use:

$ solang compile –target solana source.sol

This will produce an ABI file for each contract, and a single binary contract called `bundle.so`.

For Polkadot or Substrate, the native @polkadot/api-contract npm package can be used. The command line for compiling Solidity for Substrate is:

$ solang compile –target substrate source.sol

For each contract found in the file a `.contract` file is produced.

There are examples in the documentation and in the integration tests of how to run these contracts.

We also have a visual studio code extension, which provides real-time compiler warnings and errors as well as type information when you hover over variables and functions.

What’s next

Language support: Hyperledger Solang already supports nearly all the syntax that Ethereum Solidity 0.8 supports. There are a few minor exceptions like slices. We intend to keep up with the latest Solidity developments as they are released.

Stabilized targets: Both the Solana and Substrate targets are undergoing stabilization and are expected to be finished by the end of the year. Once this happens, we expect many more users. We are aware of blockchain development teams wanting to use Hyperledger Solang in production, which makes this point a priority.

EVM support: Hyperledger Solang used to have an ewasm target. However, since ewasm is no longer going to happen on Ethereum, this target has been dropped. In fact, we have bigger plans: we renamed most of the ewasm target to EVM, and hope to have EVM support in the future. An EVM target would be an interesting development because it would bring Solang to Ethereum and any other EVM based chain. Many projects that are already developing for Ethereum are interested in running their contracts in multiple environments, using a single tool that compiles for EVM and other blockchains. We are considering running a Hyperledger mentorship for this difficult but rewarding task next year.

Hyperledger projects: We have had conversations with Hyperledger Sawtooth, Hyperledger Fabric, and Private Data Objects, which expressed interest in having Solidity support, but there is still work to be done to implement a new target in Solang for these projects.

Where to get more information and how to get involved

Please head to the github d ocumenationpage https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/solang documentation page https://solang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

If you want to get involved, we have a curated list of good first issues to work on in our github issue tracker: https://github.com/hyperledger/solang/labels/good%20first%20issue.

We are always available on the #solang channel on the hyperledger discord, and we run a daily discord meeting at 13:30 UTC in #solang-meetup. For more details, see the Hyperledger calendar of public meetings: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/HYP/Calendar+of+Public+Meetings. We look forward to welcoming you.

Sep 12

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Hyperledger FireFly V1.1 Is Now Available

By Nicko Guyer, Sr. Full Stack Engineer at Kaleido and Hyperledger FireFly Community Lead Blog, Hyperledger Firefly

Before Hyperledger FireFly, blockchain developers spent a lot of time building the plumbing of their application. They built complex middleware components from scratch. Hyperledger FireFly was a sea change. The first open source Supernode, Hyperledger FireFly offers developers a complete stack to build and scale secure web3 applications.

Hyperledger FireFly accelerates development with a rich stack of native web3, B2B, and integration services. It simplifies the deployment and management of many apps via a single console, and offers a new tool to connect to the multi-chain and multi-protocol web3 world.

This is more important than ever as public and private chain use cases intermingle more and more in novel enterprise applications. That’s what makes the new release of Hyperledger FireFly exciting. Developments to the stack make it radically simple for developers to launch production-ready apps on both public and private chains and manage multiple applications from a single console with multi-tenant support, plugin flexibility, and pluggable security.

Introducing Web3 Gateway Mode

Hyperledger FireFly can now operate in two modes. The first is familiar to current users of the stack. Consortium Mode is used to build consortiums or multi-party business networks where data needs to be agreed to and shared among the group. Use cases for Consortium Mode have included healthcare and insurance consortiums, supply chain participants, financial networks, and other examples where companies come together to streamline how they do business.

This release introduces the new Web3 Gateway Mode. Gateway Mode is used when the main goal of the Supernode is to connect to a public blockchain. Where previously developers could use a public tether to access popular public chains, this new mode acts as a doorway into the full world of web3 with support for popular public chains including Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Moonbeam, Fantom and more.

The worlds of public and private blockchain are merging. Enterprises are eager to tap into the reach, security, and decentralization of public chains. At the same time, public chain players are looking to optimize throughput, scalability, and gas fees in ways that have long been familiar to enterprise networks. This release of Hyperledger FireFly offers a stack to build for both worlds.

Public Blockchain Support

Along with the ability to connect across public chains, Hyperledger FireFly 1.1 has new tools and support to simplify public use cases for the enterprise.

FireFly Transaction Manager, an all new EVM Connector, handles the complex concerns of public chains, including gas estimation, resubmission policies, and more.
FireFly Signer can be used for transaction signing in networks where it is necessary to separate private keys from the blockchain node.
Enhanced Gateway Support makes it easy to keep private data private, while interacting with public chains.

Hyperleger FireFly 1.1 allows developers to access both public and private chains simultaneously, while building in guardrails specific to the enterprise space, ensuring new applications meet both user and compliance requirements.

Multi-tenant Support

Hyperledger FireFly 1.1 adds namespace isolation for segregating data and operations. Inside the Supernode, each namespace is an isolated environment within a FireFly runtime. This allows independent configuration of plugin and infrastructure components, API security, identity broadcasting, on-chain data indexing, and management of how data should be shared.

Namespaces work in both modes. Consortium Namespaces can be used when multiple parties need to share on- and off-chain data and agree upon the ordering and authenticity of that data. While Web3 Gateway Namespaces are available when interacting directly with a blockchain, without assuming that the interaction needs to conform to FireFly’s multi-party system model.

A single FireFly node can run multiple namespaces in either mode at the same time. This lets developers build flows that coordinate between public chains and private consortiums. The diagram below illustrates the visibility and control available to an organization as they run multiple applications from a single console, each segregated to meet security requirements.

Multiple Instances of Plugins

With the new release, a single FireFly node can now use several instances of each type of plugin that is available. As we illustrated above, we’re connecting to multiple blockchains simultaneously, often for different use cases or goals. The ability to run different plugins in each namespace means a developer has greater agility to coordinate flows for each chain or consortium.

Pluggable API Security

The flexibility to connect to multiple applications and multiple chains is only valuable in the enterprise space if it can be matched with the appropriate security, both for the integrity of the network and for compliance standards.

With Hyperledger FireFly 1.1, API Security can be enabled at several levels. This includes on any service or on a specific namespace.

With two different modes of operation, tenant isolation, flexibility of plugins, and tailored security at any level, the ability of a developer to deploy and manage applications with the right functionality and permissioned access is greatly increased.

The Next-gen Platform

Hyperledger FireFly v1.0 was a welcomed addition to the blockchain developer’s toolkit. It brought to blockchain the convenience of a rich middleware stack common in the Web 2.0 space.

With the new release, Hyperledger FireFly is positioning enterprises to harness the benefits of both public and private blockchain technologies. It gives developers the ability to quickly launch multiple applications, tailor each to the desired business logic and security requirements—all while providing a gateway into the wider world of web3.

Hyperledger FireFly 1.1 is another step toward bringing the Enterprise closer to realizing the full potential of web3—both with permissioned chains and connections to public ecosystems. If that’s something you’re interested in, we invite you to come be part of our community. You can learn more in the FireFly docs and download the CLI on the FireFly Github. If you have any questions, find us in the FireFly channel on the Hyperledger Discord.

Sep 12

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Hyperledger Announces Eight New Members, Including CasperLabs, Banque de France and Central Bank of Nigeria, to Kick off Hyperledger Global Forum

By Hyperledger Announcements, Hyperledger Global Forum

New Members Spotlight Broad Base of Applications for Open Source Enterprise Blockchain Technologies

SAN FRANCISCO and DUBLIN, (September 12, 2022) – Today, Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, announced eight new members to kick off Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 (#HyperledgerForum, HGF). The new members include CasperLabs, Banque de France, Central Bank of Nigeria, Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada and DSR Corporation. This line-up underscores the increasingly diverse range of enterprise blockchain applications and technologies in the Hyperledger ecosystem.

A speaker from new member Banque de France will be on stage this morning for a key panel on “The CBDC Journey: Research, Live Deployments, and Policy Considerations.” Other keynotes on tap today include:

The Evolution of Ireland’s Blockchain Ecosystem – Lory Kehoe, Head of EMEA Market Operations, Coinbase & Founder and Advisory Board Member, Blockchain Ireland
The Metaverse Continuum Creates a Defining Moment for Blockchain Leaders – Melanie Cutlan, Managing Director, Metaverse Technology Capabilities Lead, Accenture
Blockchain in Action at Allianz, DTCC and Fujitsu – Bob Crozier, Allianz Technology; Rob Palatnick, DTCC; and Christopher Pilling, Fujitsu; Moderated by Csilla Zsigri, VP Strategy, BTP

Free live streaming of keynotes is available here.

“As we will see on stage here at Hyperledger Global Forum, the technology and market landscape for open source enterprise blockchain just continues to get more robust,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “Hyperledger technologies are playing an outsized role in reshaping existing markets and creating new ones. Our newest members are bringing a diversity of innovation into the Hyperledger community, accelerating the development of open, decentralized technologies that will be the infrastructure for many generations of new services and applications.”

Hyperledger Foundation allows organizations to create enterprise-grade, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by offering enterprise-grade, open source distributed ledger frameworks, libraries and tools. General members joining the community are BCW Group, CasperLabs, DSR Corporation and Realto Group.

Hyperledger Foundation supports a premier global open source blockchain community that values the contributions and participation from various entities. As such, pre-approved non-profits, open source projects and government entities can join Hyperledger Foundation at no cost as associate members. Associate members joining this month include Banque de France, Central Bank of Nigeria, Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada and International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).

New member quotes:

BCW Group

“BCW is committed to the success of our clients as they navigate their Web3 transformation. Across many industries, the application of hybrid public/private blockchain architectures leveraging Hyperledger Fabric is pivotal to adopting blockchain technology for enterprises,” said Jeffrey Tchui, Partner, Head of BCW Consulting at BCW Group. “We look forward to collaborating with fellow Hyperledger Foundation members to build key partnerships and find innovative new use cases for Hyperledger Fabric and other Hyperledger technologies.”

CasperLabs

“We are joining Hyperledger Foundation because we are committed to advancing blockchain interoperability to support enterprise operations,” said Medha Parlikar, co-founder & CTO, CasperLabs. “We’ve already found great success working with IBM to demonstrate the first atomic cross-chain swap of fungible tokens between an instance of a Hyperledger Fabric permissioned network and the Casper Blockchain at Davos 2022. In a few months, CasperLabs will be ready with an enterprise-grade production solution for cross-chain transactions.”

DSR Corporation

“Our membership in both the Linux and Hyperledger Foundations is an exciting development for DSR and our decentralized systems division as we’ve been working in the space for over six years,” said Alexander Shcherbakov, Decentralized Systems Business Unit Manager, DSR Corporation. “This is a tremendous opportunity to bring our nearly 25 years of software development experience to the growing number of companies leveraging the Hyperledger Foundation’s ecosystem. DSR is eager to make our contribution to both communities as an official member.”

Realto Group

“We are excited and honored to join the Hyperledger community of DLT innovators and enterprises,” said Prasanth Kalangi, Founder and CEO of Realto Group. “As a tokenization and Web3 technology provider in the global real estate industry, we have taken a leadership role in helping shape and transform the way real estate investing and capital raising is currently being done. And we look forward to collaborating with the Hyperledger community to advance blockchain education and adoption.”

About Hyperledger Global Forum (#HyperledgerForum)

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Keynote Translation), Siemens (Platinum), Digital Asset (Gold and Developer Lounge), Zeeve (Gold), AWS (Silver), BONbLOC (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), Corsha (Silver), Espeo Blockchain (Bronze), Huawei (Bronze), Kaleido (Bronze), DTTC (Diversity Scholarship), IBM (Birds of a Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community Partner), Blockchain Ireland (Community Partner), Blockchain Research Institute (Community Partner), Digital Euro Association (Community Partner), Diversity in Blockchain (Community Partner), European Blockchain Association (Community Partner), Global Blockchain Business Council (Community Partner), International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (Community Partner), Kerala Blockchain Academy (Community Partner), Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community Partner), Trust over IP Foundation (Community Partner), Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (Community Partner), Blocknews (Media Partner), BeinCrypto (Media Partner), Cointelegraph (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), Forkast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Merge by Fintech Nexus (Media Partner).

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Sep 09

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Want to influence the metaverse? See you at Hyperledger Global Forum

By David Treat, Senior Managing Director - Global Metaverse Continuum Business Group & Blockchain Lead, Accenture and Hyperledger Foundation Governing Board Chair Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum

I first entered the metaverse in 1992 when I was young.

My cousin had lent me his copy of Snow Crash, where Neal Stephenson coined the term that now permeates our headlines. In the book, he describes a profoundly mature metaverse, filled with elaborate systems and cultures.

That vision stuck with me like a Kourier harpoon to a Deliverator door. Thirty years later, we are finally bringing the metaverse to life. Today, however, I see things differently, especially as I look ahead to Hyperledger Global Forum next week.

My vision for the metaverse is one of responsibility. Because we are not only the ones exploring the metaverse—we are helping to build it. The Metaverse is the Next Evolution of the Internet. At Accenture, we think of the metaverse as a continuum: a spectrum of digitally enhanced worlds, experiences and business models poised to transform the next 10 years. It’s set to change every aspect of business, from payments and customer experience to manufacturing and supply chains.

But all this relies on one thing: trust. Adoption and acceptance hinge on our ability to get it right. That means we need to design the metaverse with responsibility at the core. Trust is contingent on safety, privacy, security, sustainability, equity, inclusion, accessibility, well being and more.

I am excited that our Hyperledger community will be at the forefront of shaping the metaverse as the next evolution of the Internet. Hyperledger Global Forum creates a unique opportunity for us to come together and explore the opportunities ahead of us. And as the global chair of the foundation, my goal is to collaborate with all of your to design a responsible metaverse.

Whether you specialize in blockchain or not, I firmly believe this is a must-attend event for anyone who wants to carve out their place in the creation of the metaverse. We welcome you to stop by the Accenture booth in the Expo area, where our Metaverse Continuum team and Hyperledger project maintainers will be showcasing some of our solutions and eager to explore what this new future means for you and your business.

The work begins now

When a friend asks Hiro, the main character of Snow Crash, whether he won a swordfight in the metaverse, he responds:

“Of course. […] I’m the greatest sword fighter in the world.”

“And you wrote the software,” the friend chides.

“Yeah. That, too,” he concedes.

Sep 02

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Developer showcase series: Jason Sherman, Developer at Energy & Mines Digital Trust, Government of British Columbia

By Hyperledger Blog, Climate, Developer Showcase, Hyperledger Aries, Hyperledger Indy, Identity

Back to our Developer Showcase Series to learn what developers in the real world are doing with Hyperledger technologies. Next up is Jason Sherman, Developer at Energy & Mines Digital Trust, Government of British Columbia’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation.

Give a bit of background on what you’re working on and how you got into blockchain

Energy & Mines Digital Trust (EMDT) is a pilot project enabling a collaborative digital ecosystem between the B.C. government, natural resource companies, and organizations around the world, making it simpler and more secure to share sustainability data. I am currently working on EMDT’s technology, called Traction. Traction is basically a layer above Hyperledger Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-Py) that enables the Government of British Columbia to use our technology for line of business applications. This allows the government to onboard into the world of digital credentials easily, and to track their business data with their credential and presentation exchanges.

What Hyperledger frameworks or tools are you using in your projects? Any new developments to share? Can you sum up your experience with Hyperledger?

We are using Hyperledger Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-Py) and Hyperledger Indy. Using Hyperledger frameworks has increased Traction’s interoperability, making it possible to incorporate a broader range of participants, tools, and technologies into the digital ecosystem EMDT is coordinating. We’re using Hyperledger’s open-source software to accelerate the Government of B.C.’s ability to adopt these tools. My experience with Hyperledger technologies is that things change quickly! And any problem or use case I identify is usually already being addressed.

What do you think is most important for Hyperledger Foundation to focus on in the next year?

I think the Hyperledger Foundation should focus on multiple ledger support (which is already underway) and onboarding users (not developers) of the implemented technology.

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

There is a very steep learning curve, but it’s extremely worthwhile. You will very quickly identify areas where the technology could benefit your clients.

As Hyperledger’s projects continue to mature, what do you see as the most interesting technologies, apps, or use cases coming out as a result?

I am interested in the ability for Hyperledger projects to enable more automated business flows using truly trusted and tamper-proof data. The number of personnel hours that can be saved just through automated conversation and interchange of data programmatically is massive.

What’s the one issue or problem you hope blockchain can solve?

I am hopeful that blockchain has the potential to improve trust between businesses. By exchanging information using blockchain technology and digital credentials, the validity and origin of the credential can always be verified, and businesses can proceed with their interactions confidently.

Where do you hope to see Hyperledger and/or blockchain in five years?

I would hope to see blockchain as a viable and easily selected technology, along the lines of Postgresql or MongoDb. I would hope that blockchain could be adopted as a mainstream technology that development teams can look at as a solution to solve their problems.

What is the best piece of developer advice you’ve ever received?

Your code isn’t precious.

What technology could you not live without?

Plumbing.

Aug 23

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Investing in Verifiable Credentials, Technical Interoperability and Open Source

By the Province of British Columbia, Office of the Chief Information Officer Blog, Hyperledger Aries, Identity

Our 20 Year Journey

Like many provinces and territories in Canada, British Columbia (BC) has a long history of providing secure access to online government services. We started our journey 20 years ago with the introduction of BCeID, a simple username and password solution. A lot has changed since then!

Today, we are investing in Verifiable Credentials (VCs) and a digital wallet. We see these as the cornerstones in the evolution of our digital strategy, adding a much needed layer of trust to the digital economy.

We want to share what we are doing, why we focus on interoperability and open-source, and why we are excited about VCs being our natural next step.

Why We Care

As a public sector organization, BC has a strong interest in seeing the adoption of technologies that are secure, privacy-preserving, and convenient.

Digital is obviously everywhere. In 2021, 94% of BC citizens said they are online, and 90% of Canadians have smartphones. Also, according to the Business Council of Canada, in the last decade Canada’s digital economy grew 40% faster than the overall world economy. In Digital ID terms, this growth is an opportunity to make people’s online lives easier and safer.

We also know that cybersecurity threats are growing and there are no signs of it slowing down. BC sees an astonishing 496 million unauthorized access attempts per day – that’s 5,741 every second! Identity theft and fraud also continues to rise. We need digital trust solutions that counter this increasing risk.

In responding to this new reality, we recognize that people are familiar and comfortable with the many credentials that governments issue today. Things like physical copies of drivers’ licenses, health cards, passports, permits, and reports are widely accepted and trusted. In BC, we are building on that trust and moving towards providing the same things digitally. We are also enabling confidential connections through the wallet to give people choice and confidence in their digital lives.

BC’s Approach

Clearly, digital trust goes far beyond just the government. Canadians expect more access, with greater security, to high-value services in both the public and private sectors. VCs and the wallet provide a highly flexible way to achieve that goal.

Collaboration is critical to achieving that goal and it’s important to us. BC’s Chief Information Officer, CJ Ritchie, strongly advocates for us working together to meet the expectations of Canadians. She notes, “If we don’t all act together to deliver solutions that protect privacy and interact securely, trust will erode and there will be negative impacts for businesses, people’s livelihoods, and the broader digital economy.”

As our approach evolves, we also remain keen to support open source solutions that interoperate with other national and international efforts. There is no dominant design yet, no one network or technology, so we must remain nimble and flexible in our exploration. We also need to coexist with existing identity solutions that millions of British Columbians already rely upon.

Technology Interoperability

In exploring VCs, BC is contributing to solutions that allow agents to verify credentials from multiple networks. Indeed, through one of our Code With Us initiatives, DID indy, we contributed over 11,000 lines of open-source code to support and prove the viability of a “network of networks”.

We also are focused on the interoperability of Hyperledger Aries agents themselves, another key success metric. We are leading contributors to Aries Agent Test Harness (AATH), open-source software that runs a series of Hyperledger Aries interoperability tests and delivers the results to the AATH website. Great interoperability requires that we test—and re-test!—that interoperability on a regular basis.

Side note: If you want to test the interoperability of any Aries agent with this ecosystem, please sign up to join the Hyperledger Aries Interoperability Event on August 31.

Driving Adoption

In BC we have a lot of technical skill in working with VCs and with Hyperledger Aries agents. However, for VCs to be successful, it needs to be easy for others to join in.

On the agents side, to complement our extensive contributions to Hyperledger Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-Py) and other Aries and Indy projects, we also contribute to Hyperledger Aries Framework Javascript (AFJ), the agent commonly used for mobile digital wallets.

That’s why, when thinking about mobile digital wallets, we opted to contribute to the Hyperledger Aries Bifold project, helping it also essentially become “Bifold as a framework”. Bifold uses AFJ, and BC and others can use it to easily deploy a custom-designed digital wallet. Jurisdictions within Canada and elsewhere in the world are already taking this approach for their own wallet explorations. It’s an open-source stack right the way down.

VC adoption will be helped by a thriving open-source community, and we are giving back wherever we can.

Open-Source Success

We believe the community’s success becomes our success. For years we’ve been committed to open-source, interoperable solutions in this space. Our approach is always evolving, but our contributions and commitment to various digital trust open-source projects and technologies continue.

We hope that even more organizations will join in and contribute. Our goal in BC is a new layer of trust for the internet, making it easier for people to work and play online with confidence.

Aug 19

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Hyperledger Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group takes first place in the 2022 IBM Call for Code Green Practices Accelerator

By Bertrand Rioux, Director, Two Ravens Energy & Climate Consulting Blog, Climate, Special Interest Group, Supply Chain

IBM just announced the winning prototype to Reduce Methane Emissions with Supply Chain Tokens built by members of Hyperledger’s Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group (CA2SIG) has been awarded first place in the 2022 IBM Call for Code Green Practices Accelerator. Each year, the IBM Call for Code challenge seeks the most creative and innovative solutions to help address issues of sustainability.

**See the 2022 IBM Call for Code Announcement here (Time Code: 3:52)**

Reducing methane emissions by the oil and gas industry is a vital step to achieving global greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets in the short-term. More than 5% of global emissions are caused by leaked, vented and flared methane gas during oil and gas production. This is a valuable natural resource with a market value exceeding $50 billion.

The team working on the winning prototype is developing an emission certification (token) platform for oil and gas production to support sustainable financing aligned with Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) investing. An ESG investor portal will help integrate verified methane emission metrics into performance-based financial instruments. Learn more about the Hyperledger Climate Action and Accounting SIG solution here.

The prototype uses Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to support the management of production and emissions data. This includes both private and public network components. The former includes Hyperledger Fabric emission and product data channels to support the verification of high volume data from oil and gas facilities. Using Hyperledger Cactus, these enterprise data networks are securely connected to Ethereum-based decentralized applications. This combination of DLT protects the privacy and commercial sensitivity of industry data, while providing verifiable metrics that can be tracked and traded as part within the measurement economy for GHG emissions.

What’s next?

In the near-term, our team will focus their efforts on organizing public geospatial data on oil and gas assets and production into a structured database. This is connected to our ESG investor portal to compare a registry of oil and gas assets, and their operators, against benchmarks for U.S. oil and gas production.

In the long-term, our team is designing an emission certification platform coordinated by a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that will bring together verification professionals, standard setting bodies, data providers, and other industry stakeholders (e.g., regulators, voluntary carbon market providers).

Our vision is to provide the solutions needed to create an efficient marketplace for climate data that will incentivize corporations to decarbonize their supply chains by unlocking the combined incentives provided by green investment, government regulation, and consumer demand. To help accomplish this in the ongoing development of this prototype, the certificates issued to oil and gas producers are not only transferred to their downstream consumers such as energy and other commodity providers but extended into new certificates that can help provide a total value chain perspective on the waste emissions in the oil and gas supply chain.

Congratulations to CA2SIG community members Bertrand Roux, Si Chen, Arezki Djelouadji, and Sherwood Moore!

Want to get involved? We invite you to visit our Oil & Gas Methane Reductions Page, join our bi-monthly Peer Programming Calls, and/or our Bi-Monthly Climate Action and Accounting General Meetings!

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