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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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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)

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), 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). 

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.

Aug 17
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Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 Set to Tackle Blockchain Interoperability, CBDCs, Climate Change, Digital Identity, Tokenomics and More

By Hyperledger Announcements, Hyperledger Global Forum

More than 100 Speakers will Take the Stage in Packed Three-Day Dublin Event

SAN FRANCISCO and DUBLIN, (August 17, 2022) – Today, Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, announced agenda details for Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 (#HyperledgerForum, HGF), which will take place from September 12-14 at the Convention Centre Dublin in Ireland. The packed agenda will tackle key business and technical topics, including blockchain interoperability, CBDCs, climate change, digital identity and tokenomics. 

More than 100 speakers will take the stage for talks, panels, demos and hands-on workshops. 

Highlights include these keynotes:

  • The Evolution of Ireland’s Blockchain Ecosystem – Lory Kehoe, Coinbase and Blockchain Ireland
  • ESG with a little Help from Indy – Dr. Andreas Kind, Vice President Cybersecurity & Trust, Siemens AG
  • The Metaverse Continuum Creates a Defining Moment for Blockchain Leaders – Melanie Cutlan, Managing Director, Metaverse Technology Capabilities Lead, Accenture 

Additional speakers will include:

  • Bob Crozier, Chief Architect, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Head of Global Blockchain, Allianz Technology
  • David Treat Senior Managing Director, Global Metaverse Continuum Business Group & Blockchain Lead, Accenture & Hyperledger Governing Board Chair
  • Eli Androulaki, Distinguished Research Scientist, Decentralised Trust Research Strategy & Manager, IBM
  • Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder & CEO, Equideum Health
  • Juan Jiménez Zaballos, Chief Executive Officer, Alastria
  • Rob Palatnick, Managing Director/Global Head of Technology Research and Innovation, DTCC
  • Shashank Rai, Chief Technology Officer, United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC)
  • Yifan He, CEO, Red Date Technology  

“There has been an impressive amount of market evolution, technology development and innovation in the two plus years since we last held an in-person Hyperledger Global Forum,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “Our community has been a driving force in advancing blockchain for business and building the open source foundation for an increasingly decentralized world. This year’s event will be more than just an opportunity to reconnect, share successes, bring new ideas to the table and plan next steps. It will also be a celebration of the power of community to build better together.” 

Inclusive agenda, inclusive community

HGF is the largest annual gathering of the Hyperledger community. It draws attendees from academia, governments, nonprofits and start-ups as well as major technology and end user companies from around the world. Hyperledger Foundation aims to create an event that is both valuable and welcoming to all. Some of the key ways the Hyperledger team and community have worked together to give HGF broad appeal and access, in keeping with an “All are Welcome” ethos, include:

  • Community-led Program Committee – To ensure a compelling content agenda that aligns with top-of-mind issues for the community, Hyperledger Foundation turned the selection process over to a community-led Program Committee.
  • Community Fair – A new addition to the “hallway track” of the conference, the Community Fair will be a dedicated space for connecting with leaders from across the Hyperledger Special Interest Groups, Working Groups and Regional Chapters. The goal is to make it easier for community members to make valuable connections and find people and resources that align with their interests and needs, regardless of where they are in their enterprise blockchain journey.
  • Diversity scholarships – With the assistance of DTTC, Hyperledger Foundation is also providing scholarships to 25 students, researchers, independent contributors and government or non-profit employees from as far as Bolivia, El Salvador, India and Sénégal to ensure they can attend HGF. 
  • Free child care – To make HGF more accessible to parents of young children, Hyperledger Foundation will provide free child care during all three days of the conference sessions.
  • Commitment to health and safety – To enter HGF, attendees must show proof of being fully vaccinated or of a negative COVID test taken within 24 hours of presenting the results at the event. In addition, masks will be required inside the conference center. 
  • Focus on community connections – Hyperledger Foundation is hosting this as an in-person event to facilitate critical community connections. There will be an emphasis on providing attendees non-stop opportunities for knowledge sharing, collaboration and networking, including a night of celebration at the historic Guinness Storehouse. 

View the full schedule, sponsors and activities at: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/hyperledger-global-forum/program/schedule/

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), 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), Global Blockchain Business Council (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), 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.

Jun 10
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Hyperledger Foundation Welcomes Seven New Members, Including Avast, Infosys and the National FinTech Center at Morgan State University

By Hyperledger Announcements

Releases Details of New Hyperledger Besu Execution Client Incentive Program

SAN FRANCISCO and AUSTIN (June 10, 2022) – Today, at Consensus 2022, Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, announced seven new members, including Avast, Infosys, The Digital Dollar Project and the National FinTech Center at Morgan State University. During Consensus 2022, Hyperledger Foundation will be highlighting the widespread enterprise adoption and commitment to open source blockchain technologies. Attendees can visit the Hyperledger Foundation booth (623) to learn more about the recent inclusion of Hyperledger Besu in the Ethereum Foundation’s Execution Layer Client Incentive Program, new project milestones with various projects including Hyperledger Cactus and Hyperledger Firefly and more.

Hyperledger Foundation exists to foster the community-development of enterprise-grade blockchain software that will reshape commerce, currency, communications, identity and more. For that reason, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) has opted to include Hyperledger Besu in the Execution Layer Client Incentive Program (ELCIP). The program 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. The client incentive program is a strategic investment by the EF to engage the Hyperledger Besu community in ensuring a diversity of clients and overall health of the network.

In a further indication of the commitment to open source software in the enterprise market, Avast is joining Hyperledger Foundation after acquiring two Hyperledger member companies, Evernym and SecureKey. Both companies have been long-time contributors to Hyperledger and integrated the technology into the core of their businesses. A recent case study with Bosch focused on the company’s strategic process for developing open source technologies and how that led to Hyperledger Lab Perun. In another case study, Hitachi shares the ROI of implementing a Hyperledger-based solution to streamline its own internal procurement process, putting the open source software it helps develop to work to better its own business.

“As we move towards an increasingly decentralized future, the role of openly developed and governed enterprise blockchain technologies will only grow in importance,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “We see more and more of our technologies being adopted and adapted to support new business models, creating opportunities for new developers and driving innovation at companies of every size. We welcome the investment both our new members and the Ethereum Foundation are making in accelerating the development and deployment of Hyperledger technologies.”

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 Avast, Corsha, Infosys and NextGenTek Consulting.

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 the National FinTech Center at Morgan State University, The Digital Dollar Project and Universidad Tecnológica Nacional – Facultad Regional Córdoba.

New member quotes:

Avast

“A strong developer community is foundational to the adoption of decentralized identity technology, and we’re proud to join the Hyperledger Foundation to help grow this community and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the space,” said Charles Walton, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Identity at Avast. “Our membership comes in the wake of our recent acquisitions of Evernym and SecureKey, two long-time contributors to Hyperledger that will continue their involvement under Avast.”

Corsha 

“We are incredibly excited and honored to join the Hyperledger Foundation,” said Anusha Iyer, co-founder and CTO of Corsha. “Hyperledger Fabric is an integral part of Corsha’s product and is truly at the root of what makes our technology unique and innovative. We can’t wait to work alongside some of the best minds and biggest contributors to Hyperledger Fabric and engage with this fantastic community over the years to come.”

Infosys

“Infosys is delighted to join the Hyperledger Foundation and work together with community members to unlock the true potential of blockchain technology,” said Gopikrishnan Konnanath, Senior Vice President, Global Head – Engineering Services and Blockchain, Infosys. “We see blockchain as a vital cog in building a truly digital future for our clients from the very core of their enterprise and at scale. We are excited to share our experiences here and learn from the community members to drive adoption of blockchain across various facets of business.”

NextGenTek Consulting

“It is a privilege to be able to join the Hyperledger Foundation,” said Dr. Harry Hunter, CEO of NextGenTek Consulting. “NextGenTek is passionate about providing solutions to industry wide issues using innovative technology. With the adoption of blockchain technology, NextGenTek has been able to provide a new technological foundation to critical sectors and aid businesses to find a real source of truth. By being part of the Hyperledger community, we hope to be a vehicle to spread truth to other businesses, public services, and individuals that can benefit from this technological revolution that has not yet reached its full potential.”

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 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. 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.

May 19
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Hyperledger Foundation Announces Development Milestones for Three Projects; Plans for Hyperledger Global Forum

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Will Host Global Community, Spotlight Technology and Adoption Advancements and Foster New Development at September Event in Dublin, Ireland

SAN FRANCISCO (May 19, 2022) – Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, today announced development milestones for three of its projects, including the release of a long term support (LTS) preview version of Hyperledger Iroha 2. Additionally, Hyperledger Foundation, which is hosted at the Linux Foundation, released details for this year’s Hyperledger Global Forum (HGF), the largest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community. 

Hyperledger Foundation currently hosts 14 active projects, including six graduated and eight incubating ones. They include five distributed ledgers, which are all graduated projects, as well as five tools and three libraries. Hyperledger Iroha, a graduated distributed ledger, is marching towards a full V2 release. The community has been introducing a steady stream of releases for the new version and, now, is releasing a LTS preview version to ramp up adoption. Hyperledger Cactus, and Hyperledger FireFly, both incubating tools, each recently launched their V1.0 releases as well.

The fast growing and maturing Hyperledger project landscape will be a main focus of Hyperledger Global Forum 2022, which will take place September 12-13 in Dublin, Ireland, at Convention Centre Dublin. HGF will have dual technology and business tracks and workshops where more than 100 speakers will be sharing the latest on developments from Hyperledger projects, labs, working groups and special interest groups and deployments as well as academic research, emerging business and use cases ranging from Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) to the climate, supply chains to security, and digital identities to NFTs. David Treat, Senior Managing Director, Global Metaverse Continuum Business Group & Blockchain Lead at Accenture, will also take the stage of HGF to share his vision for the community and technology as the new chair of the Hyperledger Foundation Governing Board. 

“Each year, Hyperledger Global Forum is the single best opportunity to take stock of the evolution of the open-source enterprise blockchain market,” said newly elected Hyperledger Foundation Governing Board Chair David Treat, senior managing director, Global Metaverse Continuum Business Group & Blockchain Lead at Accenture. “The conversations and content this year will reflect the exponential pace of innovation and adoption occurring throughout the Hyperledger ecosystem. We have an amazing opportunity to scale Hyperledger’s impact as our community’s capabilities are the foundation of the emerging ‘Internet of Ownership’ Metaverse innovation wave.” 

New releases

Hyperledger Cactus 1.0 – Hyperledger Cactus is a blockchain integration tool designed to allow users to securely integrate different blockchains. With this 1.0 release, Cactus delivers “Ledger Connectors” for nine blockchain platforms (including all of the graduated DLTs from Hyperledger) using multiple programming languages.Cactus is a pluggable enterprise-grade framework for transacting multiple blockchains that aims to provide a decentralized, adaptable and secure integration between blockchains and various platforms. It code is composed of three types of parts:

  • “Cactus Servers” that provide abstracted APIs that can be uniformly called independent of each blockchain SDK’s format, and APIs that can use each blockchain SDK wrapped with the typescript-axios API format using Cactus API Server.
  • “Business Logic Plugins” that coordinate cross-blockchain business logic applications.
  • “Ledger Connectors” that facilitate connections to various blockchains

The Hyperledger Cactus 1.0 release also includes Business Logic Plugin samples, Keychain Plugins (a set of plugins for storing sensitive information in storage engines outside of Cactus) and Support Libraries.

Hyperledger FireFly 1.0 – Hyperledger FireFly 1.0, a SuperNode for Enterprise Web3 Applications, combines a number of technical and market milestones. At its core, it offers a composable Web3 stack to help speed up decentralized application (dApp) development by a factor of 10x-100x, making it the first open-source SuperNode for enterprises to build and scale secure Web3 applications.

The Hyperledger FireFly SuperNode provides a new type of decentralized orchestration layer between companies’ existing systems and Web3. It enables the shift of value in open network systems and reduces the reliance on proprietary technology or custom-built code. It solves for the layers of complexity that sit between the low level blockchain and high level business processes and user interfaces, letting developers focus on building business logic instead of infrastructure.

Hyperledger FireFly is already in production deployments with a number of leading blockchain consortia today, including RiskStream Collaborative in the insurance industry, Synaptic Health Alliance in healthcare, TradeGo in commodity trade finance, and the international conglomerate CP Group.*

Hyperledger Iroha 2.0 LTS preview release – Hyperledger Iroha 2 is designed as a modular system with the flexibility to be deployed across a range of uses, from the simple to the complex. For example, it can be used as a toll-free intermediate ledger in a Hyperledger Cactus consortium or as a standalone ledger with transaction fees. It can just as easily connect to parity Substrate networks and provide Byzantine fault-tolerant governance. 

The second iteration of Hyperledger Iroha is close to being production-ready, but far from feature complete. The current preview release will serve as an LTS version, supported for the following six months, to allow developers to start using Iroha 2 to design in their products and get a preview of some of the innovative functions that are coming soon.

“This wave of milestones is a reflection of the high level of development momentum across the Hyperledger community as well as the increasing level of maturity of the enterprise blockchain market,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “The core value of enterprise blockchain has been well proven across industries, and our global and growing community is now building a rich ecosystem that will drive the next wave of interconnected, interoperable solutions. These developments are just a preview of the energy and ideas that will be the centerpiece of Hyperledger Global Forum.”

About Hyperledger Global Forum

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 any and all who are 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.

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 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. 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.

*Paragraph added May 20, 2022.

Apr 22
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Hyperledger Foundation Teams with Palm NFT Studio on Deep Dive into the Carbon Footprint of NFTs

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Announces report from Linux Foundation Research on the current and future state of carbon consumption and NFTs

SAN FRANCISCO (April 22, 2022) – Today, in honor of Earth Day, Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, announced the publication of the report “The Carbon Footprint of NFTs: Not All Blockchains Are Created Equal.” This Linux Foundation Research report, developed in collaboration with Hyperledger Foundation and Palm NFT Studio, provides an extensive look at the environmental impact of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and delves into how and why NFTs can have varying carbon footprints depending on underlying technology stacks. 

“For all the excitement about the potential of NFTs to create new value and traceability as digital assets authenticating everything from art and collectibles to products in the supply chain, there is equal consternation about climate impact of the blockchain mining enabling them,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “As champions of innovation and openness, Hyperledger Foundation views this report as a critical look at the pitfalls and potential of NFTs and, more importantly, a way to put climate considerations front and center in this fast-moving market.”

This extensive report includes an analysis of the carbon impacts of Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus mechanisms as well as an overview of technology alternatives for reducing energy consumption, underscoring the impact different blockchain decisions make on the climate. It goes on to provide guidance on steps and strategies to not only increase the sustainability of blockchain but leverage the innovation of NFTs and smart contracts to tackle climate change itself. 

“Defining a problem is the first step to solving it,” said Hilary Carter, Vice President of Research at the Linux Foundation. “Researching and writing this report showed us the double-edged reality of NFTs but also gave us the opportunity to map out new approaches that can lead to a sustainable, even beneficial NFT future. Addressing climate change will include rethinking when, where, and how we deploy technology and, in this case, how we can pivot to climate-forward practices in both the deployment and application of NFTs.”

Key takeaways from the report include:

  • Approximately 80 percent of NFTs are transacted via Ethereum which currently uses the energy intensive Proof of Work consensus mechanism. Ethereum is transitioning to Proof of Stake in 2022. 
  • The NFT ecosystem is evolving with other lower carbon footprint blockchain options already available, as well as layer 2 solutions that are less energy intensive and more scalable. 
  • The entire blockchain ecosystem must shoulder the responsibility for environmentally sound solutions. 
  • Verified offsets should be employed for a fully carbon-neutral solution. Align projects with certified environmental projects will benefit communities and foster cycles of positive reinforcement in scale and investment. 
  • Embedding energy and climate disclosures in platforms allows users to make informed choices about using one blockchain or sidechain over another.

“This report comes at a critical moment in the evolution of NFTs,” shared Co-Founder and CEO of Palm NFT Studio Dan Heyman. “As they gain traction with enterprise-grade businesses and fans alike, the volume of NFTs minted for any given program shifts from numbering in the thousands to hundreds of thousands and into the millions. It’s imperative that we implement solutions to negate the environmental impact. We’re motivated by the findings of the Linux Foundation research report, and hope they serve as a catalyst for more innovation in our industry, and ultimately a more environmentally conscious blockchain.”

The full “Carbon Footprint of NFTs: Not All Blockchains Are Created Equal” report as well as a one-page visual recap of 12 top takeaways are available for download here. 

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 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. 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.

Feb 16
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Hyperledger Foundation Adds Nine New Members

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Continues to Build Diverse, Global Community with New Members from Africa, Asia, Europe and Americas

SAN FRANCISCO (February 16, 2022) – Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, today announced a diverse line-up of nine new members, including Absa , Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), Indicio and PalmNFT Studio. These latest members join from markets in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, adding to the important global footprint of Hyperledger Foundation. 

Additionally, Hyperledger Foundation, which is hosted at the Linux Foundation, announced that Wipro and Avanza Innovations have completed the requirements to become the newest Hyperledger Certified Service Providers. The newest members and HCSPs not only showcase the global diversity of the Hyperledger community but also the value of Hyperledger Foundation’s multi-project landscape. Many of these new members are already actively developing and deploying a variety of Hyperledger technologies to solve challenges and introduce solutions ranging from global shipping and trade to NFTs and from digital identity to cross chain interoperability.

To further fuel this growth, Hyperledger Foundation recently announced a new CTO. It also welcomed the new project Hyperledger Bevel, an accelerator/tool that helps developers rapidly set up and deploy secure, scalable and production-ready DLT network(s) that also allows new organizations to be easily on-boarded on the network. 

Hyperledger technologies were also highlighted in both the 2022 Forbes Blockchain 50 and Constellation ShortList for Blockchain Technology Platforms for Q1 2022. Hyperledger Fabric far outpaced any other platform among enterprise deployments on this year’s Forbes list. More details on the impact of Hyperledger technologies in action are available in the ever-growing collection of case studies. Recent additions include: 

  • Public Mint’s use of Hyperledger Besu to make blockchain’s financial benefits accessible to everyone
  • KrypC’s partnership with MineHub to transform the mining and metals supply chain using Hyperledger Fabric 2.2
  • Splunk’s work to bring Hyperledger Fabric data visibility into a new blockchain-based content management solution for S&P Global
  • Tech Mahindra’s deployment of Hyperledger Fabric to transform Abu Dhabi’s Land Registry
  • we.trade’s launch of a cross-industry digital trade finance platform powered by Hyperledger Fabric

“When we added Foundation to our name, it was to reflect the growing breadth of the Hyperledger community, technology landscape and market impact,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “We are seeing that growth play out with new technical leadership and projects, additions to our commercial ecosystem and ever widening adoption of our technologies. Our newest members, a line-up of organizations looking to build and rebuild markets and economies across a range of industries using a mix of Hyperledger technologies, are another sign of our expanding reach.”

Hyperledger Foundation allows organizations to create solid, 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 Absa, Datachain, Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), Indicio, IoBuilders, Marketnode, MDxBlocks, PalmNFT Studio, and Zeeve, Inc.

New member quotes:

Absa

“The financial services industry is facing an increasing competitive landscape driven primarily through the application of new technologies, such as distributed ledger. Absa has become a member of Hyperledger Foundation to expand our knowledge and network in the distributed ledger community,” said Michelle Anderson, the Head of Strategy and Digital Partnerships: Information Technology Office at Absa. “We intend to broaden our understanding of the use of the technology in the financial services sector and leverage Hyperledger’s enterprise blockchain ecosystems and global open source collaboration to deliver on new propositions to meet our evolving customer needs.”

Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN)

“Supply chains around the world are under extreme, non-transitory pressure,” said Edmund To, Chief Technology Officer at Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN). “As a technology consortium in the shipping sector, we believe harnessing blockchain technology will help the industry navigate the challenges and create new value. We look forward to collaborating with the Hyperledger community to advance blockchain technology as well as promote its adoption in global trade.” 

Datachain

“We’re excited to join the Hyperledger community and work closely with leading enterprise companies,” said Tetsushi Hisata, Founder and CEO of Datachain. “Datachain has focused on solving the blockchain interoperability challenge, especially in the enterprise field. One of the projects we initially contributed is YUI, a Hyperledger Lab. YUI is an interoperability project that enables various types of blockchains to connect to each other without trusting intermediaries using Cosmos IBC. It supports not only major enterprise blockchains such as Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Besu but also Ethereum. To give an example using YUI, we teamed up with NTT Data to verify the feasibility of DVP settlement between Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum. As a member of the Hyperledger community, we want to collaborate with the Hyperledger member companies to help them solve the interoperability challenge and promote blockchain adoption in enterprise usage.”

Indicio

“Indicio is both a leading contributor to Hyperledger Indy and Hyperledger Aries and a prolific user of these codebases,” said Heather Dahl, CEO of Indicio. “The open source projects housed at the Hyperledger Foundation have provided the DNA for creating new ways to share and trust data and to manage identity and security in the emerging Web3, metaverse, and spatial web. When we build trusted data ecosystems for our global clients, we turn to the innovative Hyperledger Foundation projects that we helped lead and build. The Indicio Network itself is a global network for enterprise-grade, decentralized identity solutions— built on Hyperledger Indy. We are excited to not only join this community of open source innovators but to continue contributing code, use, and promote these groundbreaking technologies.”

IoBuilders

“As early adopters of Hyperledger Besu (former Pantheon), we are excited to join the Hyperledger Foundation and work closely with the top players and active members that are shaping the present and future of blockchain,” said Fernando Paris, CTO at IoBuilders. “IoBuilders is a Blockchain Solutions Studio focused on the development of Digital Assets tokenization and settlement products / ad hoc platforms, helping regulated and non-regulated companies to leverage the benefits of DLT following the legal boundaries, enabling the boost of existing businesses or the creation of new use cases.” 

Marketnode

“Marketnode is proud to be part of the Hyperledger community,” said Rehan Ahmed, Chief Product Officer at Marketnode. “Building on our heritage and experience in developing robust market-wide systems, we look forward to developing next-generation digital assets infrastructure in collaboration with the broader ecosystem.”

MDxBlocks

“We recognize the Hyperledger community has been playing a key role in the enterprise blockchain adoption, and we are looking forward to collaborating,” said Krishna Bayanna, MDxBlocks’ Founder and CEO. “MDxBlocks has helped many companies to break through and leverage the power of blockchain, and Hyperledger technologies have been front and center in our projects on carbon footprint and credits, NFTs, grains provenance and supply chain, to name a few. We are very happy to become part of the Hyperledger community.”

PalmNFT Studio

“Hyperledger technologies and community have been a cornerstone for Palm NFT Studio since our inception, so we’re excited to formally join Hyperledger Foundation,” said Palm NFT Studio Co-Founder and CEO Dan Heyman. “We’re looking forward to working within the vibrant Hyperledger community to move open-source technologies forward.”

Zeeve, Inc.

“We are very excited to join Hyperledger Foundation and look forward to partnering up with its members to accelerate blockchain’s adoption globally,” says Dr Ravi Chamria, Co-founder, CEO, Zeeve Inc, a leading Web3 infrastructure and DevOps automation company. “Be it Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth or, to support Ethereum, Hyperledger Besu, Zeeve provides a no-code BaaS platform to manage enterprise-grade deployments of nodes and networks, smart analytics, real-time monitoring and various managed services that enable enterprises and blockchain start-ups to innovate faster and achieve ROI.”

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 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. 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.

Feb 09
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Hyperledger Foundation Names Hart Montgomery as Chief Technology Officer 

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Adds New Technical Leader to Guide Growing Ecosystem, Expanding Technology Landscape

SAN FRANCISCO (February 9, 2021) – Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, today announced that Hart Montgomery has joined the organization as its Chief Technology Officer. In this new role, he will be the technical leader for Hyperledger Foundation, ensuring the health and transparency of the development community and all its projects. A long-time member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering committee and contributor to multiple projects and labs, Montgomery is deeply knowledgeable about the technology, marketplace and community. He will be key to scaling the growing pipeline of Hyperledger projects and maximizing the open source model to deliver the next generation of enterprise blockchain technologies. 

Montgomery joins Hyperledger Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, from Fujitsu Research where he has been a research scientist in cryptography for the last seven years. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford ​and​ was awarded a Stanford Graduate Fellowship​. ​​As a member of the Hyperledger Foundation executive team, he will play a strategic role driving open source blockchain and distributed ledger technologies into new markets and applications and guiding projects across the Linux Foundation in their approaches to the fast-evolving blockchain, crypto and Web 3 technologies.

“Adding Hart to the leadership team as our first CTO is a big milestone for the Hyperledger Foundation that marks our commitment to technical excellence, rigorous governance and community growth,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “He has a strong record of fast tracking community-led development of critical new technologies that will be key to the continued evolution of this market. His experience and expertise make him a natural choice to be the leading voice for the value open source development of enterprise DLT and other collaborative technologies bring to established and emerging markets.”

“I’ve been involved in the Hyperledger community since its earliest days, giving me a front row view of the impact of open source development on enterprise blockchain,” said Hart Montgomery, CTO of Hyperledger Foundation. “We are at the beginning of the innovation curve on both the technology and business fronts. This leadership role is an ideal opportunity for me to work with the premiere open source enterprise blockchain community to foster collaboration and drive the development of technologies that will change the nature of trust and be the foundation for new applications, industries, and economies.”

The new Hyperledger Foundation brand was announced as the organization entered its sixth year and reflects the expanding scope of the Hyperledger ecosystem. The new name provides an identity that arches over all the Hyperledger projects, labs, regional chapters, working groups, special interest groups and other community efforts to advance enterprise blockchain technology. 

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 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. 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.

Oct 14
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Hyperledger Announces Seven New Members, Including Siemens, IDnow and ROOTCHAIN

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Readies for Annual Member Summit with New Leadership and Focus on Growing, Global Base of Deployments

SAN FRANCISCO (October 14, 2021) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced that seven new members have joined the multi-venture, multi-stakeholder effort hosted at the Linux Foundation. The line-up of organizations joining Hyperledger includes Siemens, IDnow and ROOTCHAIN. They join as Daniela Barbosa assumes the position of Executive Director of Hyperledger as part of her new role as the Linux Foundation’s General Manager, Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity.  

Additionally, Hyperledger announced that BONbLOC Inc, Espeo Blockchain and IntellectEU have completed the requirements to become the newest Hyperledger Certified Service Providers, bringing the total to 27. These new members and HCSPs underscore the growing, global drive towards deploying Hyperledger, a theme of the community’s upcoming annual Member Summit. 

A recent report from Blockdata shows that Hyperledger technologies are used by more of the top 100 companies than any other blockchain platform. Hyperledger’s efforts to document its technology in action lives in an ever-growing collection of case studies. Recent additions include: 

  • Ledger Leopard’s use of Hyperledger Besu to power a supply chain tracking dashboard for RTI Blockchain 
  • Thales’ and DigiCert’s joint efforts enhance cybersecurity for Hyperledger Fabric-based networks
  • Avanza’s work to ease world trade using Hyperledger Fabric in Dubai’s Digital Silk Road
  • BondEvalue’s launch of the world’s first fractional bond exchange, built with Hyperledger Sawtooth
  • Poste Italiane’s Hyperledger Besu-powered multi-brand loyalty program

Hyperledger is also continuing to grow and diversify its technology landscape. The most recent addition is Hyperledger FireFly, a multi-party system for enterprise data flows that provides a purpose-built system upon which to build decentralized blockchain applications. FireFly is the 17th project accepted into Hyperledger. 

“We are entering a new era for enterprise blockchain and Hyperledger,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “The hard work of building open code bases and ecosystems is translating into accelerating adoption and mission-critical deployments. Our technologies are powering critical supply chains, enabling new currency models, helping reopen economies and creating new systems for climate accounting and action. We welcome these new members and their contributions at this exciting time when our technology is starting to have its transformative effect.”

Hyperledger allows organizations to create solid, 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 CSEngineering, Espeo Blockchain, IDnow, MEDIUM Inc., OPEN CERT, ROOTCHAIN, and Siemens.

New member quotes:

CSEngineering

“The distributed ledger frameworks offered by Hyperledger meet the needs of our customers who need to maximize transparency and accountability across their business workflows with programmable smart contracts,” said Christopher Stone, CEO of CSEngineering. “Whether it is Fabric, Burrow, or Sawtooth, we know we can design and build highly performant blockchain solutions from an open-source and customizable code base. CSEngineering is honored and excited to be a part of the Hyperledger community.”

IDnow

“IDnow is excited to join Hyperledger and to work together with the other members in making digital identity ubiquitous,” said Armin Bauer, Co-Founder and Managing Director Technology at IDnow. “We are a strong believer that an open and fair ecosystem is needed to make this a success and are looking forward to bringing this vision to reality together with the community. Our company is also supporting other standardization organizations like ETSI, W3C and FIDO, and we are especially excited about the new possibility that the eIDAS regulation will bring in combination with a decentralized ecosystem.” 

Espeo Blockchain

“Joining the Hyperledger community is an exciting opportunity for us, and we look forward to partnering up with its members to accelerate blockchain’s adoption globally,” said Dominik Zyskowski, Consulting Director at Espeo Blockchain, a digital consultancy building private blockchains for global enterprises. “Our brand was founded to provide organizations with guidance in moving towards a distributed future since we felt that our blockchain consulting and development capabilities were more than just a technology. For over three years, we have been using Hyperledger Fabric to improve our clients’ business processes and drive their efficiency. We cannot wait to utilize our expertise on the matter with other organizations pioneering in distributed ledger technology.” 

MEDIUM Inc.

“We are very excited and proud that MEDIUM has joined the Linux Foundation and Hyperledger,” said Panjong Kim, CEO, MEDIUM Inc. “MEDIUM has built a high-class high-speed blockchain solution with 15,000 TPS leveraging Hyperledger Fabric. We look forward to collaborating with the Hyperledger community on growing the market for this technology and solutions like ours that are putting it to maximum value.”

OPEN CERT

“After long months of work on blockchain ecosystems in sensitive environments, the Open Cert certification team is very proud to join the Hyperledger community to help with emerging common standards of data reliability and safety,” said Roland Faure, CEO, Open Cert. “In this fast-moving and complex environment, we are glad to contribute to current and future projects in this area.”

ROOTCHAIN

“We are excited to join Hyperledger as a general member,” said Cynthia Wang, SVP of Rootcloud and CEO of ROOTCHAIN. “ROOTCHAIN is a high-tech platform company dedicated to helping manufacturing enterprises with industrial blockchain technology. Through the integration of blockchain technologies with the industrial Internet, ROOTCHAIN provides manufacturing enterprises with blockchain-based public service platforms and innovative solutions such as intelligent production, collaboration in supply chain and logistics, anti-counterfeiting, and shared manufacturing. Hyperledger projects are widely used around the world in many industries, providing a secure, stable, and reliable foundation and rich ecosystem to us.”

Siemens

“Joining the Hyperledger community is a logical step for us,” said Andreas Kind, Vice President Cybersecurity Technology at Siemens AG. “While integrating trust technology into industrial infrastructures of our small, medium and large customers, the open source blockchain approach of Hyperledger lets us perfectly tailor our solutions to individual needs.”

About Hyperledger

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing and technology. Hyperledger hosts many enterprise blockchain technology projects including distributed ledger frameworks, smart contract engines, client libraries, graphical interfaces, utility libraries and sample applications. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. The Linux Foundation hosts Hyperledger under the foundation. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.

Jun 28
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Hyperledger Supports Global CBDC Challenge as Technical Partner

By Hyperledger Announcements

Will Provide Access to Open Source Platforms Already in Use for CBDC Projects, Technical Support from Global Community

SAN FRANCISCO/SINGAPORE (June 28) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced it is a Technical Partner for the Global CBDC Challenge, launched today by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

A retail CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) built on next-generation financial rails is an exciting opportunity for central banks to provide better payments, improve financial inclusion and support increasingly digital economies.

As one of the challenge’s Technical Partners, Hyperledger will provide open source code, technical information and support through our thriving, global blockchain community and numerous use cases where Hyperledger technology is being used for CBDC projects, and more. 

The Global CBDC Challenge seeks to catalyse ground-breaking retail CBDC solutions to promote financial inclusion and enable empowerment through technology. The competition is open to FinTech companies, financial institutions and solution providers around the world. 

MAS, a Hyperledger associate member, launched the challenge in partnership with the Asia Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Capital Development Fund, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, United Nations Development Programme and World Bank.

Up to 15 finalists will be selected to receive mentorship from industry experts and be provided access to the APIX Digital Currency Sandbox. 

Finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their solutions to a global audience at the Demo Day, to be held at this year’s Singapore FinTech Festival in November. Up to three winners will be selected to receive S$150,000 in cash prizes. 

“Hyperledger’s open source community and world-leading blockchain expertise is uniquely placed to assist entrants in this exciting challenge,” Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf said. “Hyperledger has a number of technologies already being deployed in CBDC projects. We recommend a number of Hyperledger DLT frameworks for entrants to consider for this challenge, including Hyperledger Besu, Fabric and Iroha.”

Challenge entrants who choose Hyperledger technologies can receive technical assistance through the projects’ mailing lists and chat channels. As a global, open source community, Hyperledger offers exceptional support. 

For details on Hyperledger technologies, CBDC projects, potential Hyperledger members with whom to collaborate, community assistance, and more, please see Hyperledger’s wiki page for the Global CBDC Challenge.

About Hyperledger

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing and technology. Hyperledger hosts many enterprise blockchain technology projects including distributed ledger frameworks, smart contract engines, client libraries, graphical interfaces, utility libraries and sample applications. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. The Linux Foundation hosts Hyperledger under the foundation. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.

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