Announcements Archives – Hyperledger Foundation

May 19

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.

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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:

“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.”

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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.

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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:

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

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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.

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Hyperledger Spotlights Diverse and Expanding Enterprise Blockchain Ecosystem at Hyperledger Global Forum

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Underscores Growing Reach of Hyperledger Technologies Fueled by Continued Innovation, Accelerating Deployments and Role in New Markets

SAN FRANCISCO (June 9, 2021) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced news from across its diverse and expanding ecosystem at Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (HGF, #HyperledgerForum), the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021. Highlights range from development and deployment news from members around the world to new code contributions fueling the next generation of Hyperledger technologies to agenda setting talks that establish the role of blockchain in a range of emerging markets and changing business models.

During Hyperledger Global Forum, the biggest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community, speakers from a broad cross section of the blockchain ecosystem are addressing the growing footprint of enterprise blockchain technology. Some prime examples include these newly announced headliners:

Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum, who sat down with Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger, for a fireside chat on enterprise adoption of Ethereum and the Hyperledger community
Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and Serey Chea, Assistant Governor at National Bank of Cambodia, who took to the main stage for a discussion on “Asia Pacific CBDC Innovation, Collaboration and the Drive to Interoperability”
Imogen Heap, musician and Founder of the Creative Passport, who will be the artist voice on a panel with executives from Palm NFT Studio and Panini America on “How NFTs Are Changing the Music and Media Landscape”
Paolo Migliari from Merck Sharp & Dohme, Daniel Lavricm from Zuellig Pharma and Lidija Pozaic Frketic from Tradeticity/Antares Vision Group who will tackle the topic “Fighting Fraud and Error in Vaccine Supply Chains” in a panel discussion

“Since the last Hyperledger Global Forum, the enterprise blockchain world, and especially our community, has charged ahead with a laser focus on advancing technologies and solutions,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger, and Managing Director for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “The resulting pace of innovation and collaboration is apparent in the range of global deployments, emerging use cases and development milestones we are seeing this week. Hyperledger Global Forum is the single best place to understand what’s happening across the full ecosystem and what amazing things people are building with Hyperledger software.”

Innovation Pipeline

In a keynote this morning that highlighted how the ecosystem is expanding on the technology front, Kareem Yusuf, General Manager, AI Applications and Blockchain at IBM, announced that his company is contributing some of the core features of its enterprise blockchain platform to Hyperledger and expanding services to support Fabric users in growing their networks. The code will come in through the Hyperledger Labs in projects such as Weaver DLT Interoperability, which aims to enable data sharing and asset movements between independent blockchain networks.

Newly announced member Keleido is also making a code contribution right out of the gate with FireFly, the newest project accepted in the Hyperledger Labs, and is hosting a co-located event Friday, June 11, to jump start the community around the technology. Japan-based Datachain also introduced the community to YUI, a new Hyperledger Labs project it contributed, as part of HGF.

These new Hyperledger Labs projects are all tackling the challenges of cross-chain and off-chain operations, areas of intense focus for all players in the industry. More than 30 projects have been accepted into Hyperledger Labs since HGF 2020, creating a robust pipeline of new developments for the ecosystem.

Member Development and Deployment News

BONbLOC – has successfully completed 25 test installations of the second version of its supply chain data measurement SaaS solution using IOT on Hyperledger Fabric 2.0. The solution helps customers to track temperature cluster data and fluid level data on its route trailers, storage trailers, warehouses and various fuel tanks in its distribution centers to avoid wastage, as well as to comply with various food safety regulations. For more information, please contact admin@bonbloc.com.

BONbLOC – has also successfully completed a test implementation of its “track and trace delivery status” blockchain solution using Hyperledger Fabric 2.0. The configurable, customizable and extensible cloud API solution helps customers to manage multi-participant delivery status related information, from order to final delivery, through a single collaborative data chain. Large and small e-commerce players can now use a 24*7 order status manager and dramatically improve customer service. For more information, please contact admin@bonbloc.com.

Blockforce – developed a digital blockchain platform for C&A Brasil. The Brazilian-based company and member of Hyperledger developed the platform on Hyperledger Fabric to enable integration – in real time – between the retailer’s systems and those of its suppliers, improving the monitoring of the production of each item in a clear, agile, and practical way. The pilot project aims to bring greater efficiency and visibility to the supply chain for fashion in the country. Learn more at https://blockforce.in/.

Chainyard – recently expanded the Trust Your Supplier (TYS) network. Built on Hyperledger Fabric, TYS provides an innovative supplier information network that allows organizations such as IBM, Nokia, and Lenovo to leverage advanced insights, accelerated supplier onboarding, and a trusted exchange of information across an encrypted blockchain environment. The TYS network has recently added British Telecom and RapidRatings as buyers and Global Data Consortium and ComplyAdvantage as new business partners. Integrations with business partners is a major component of the TYS platform. They provide the financial, diversity, environmental, digital identity, market and media data and updates as well as other external narratives to monitor regarding suppliers. TYS also now offers Continuous Monitoring, which alerts procurement teams when a supplier rating crosses the score threshold set by their risk & compliance team, providing enrichment to in-life processes, increasing the ability to manage risks in the supply chain, and supporting compliance initiatives. Learn more: https://trustyoursupplier.com/.

Chainyard – joined the Open Insurance Data Link platform (OpenIDL). This past April, the Linux Foundation announced the launch of OpenIDL, bringing together some of the largest insurance companies in the world. Chainyard, a long-term member of the Linux Foundation and a Hyperledger Certified Service Provider, joined this initiative to support it as an infrastructure member. We are pleased to be expediting the deployment of OpenIDL, which was built on Hyperledger Fabric by the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS). The initial use case facilitates regulatory reporting in the Property and Casualty (P&C) industry. Chainyard will be working closely with AAIS and the insurance carrier members to streamline the reporting process, utilizing blockchain to ensure the data is accurate and complete. Learn more: https://chainyard.com/insights/linux-foundation-hosts-collaboration-among-worlds-largest-insurance-companies/.

IntellectEU – will launch Catalyst Blockchain Platform Software-as-a-Service in June. Since its initial enterprise software launch, Catalyst Blockchain has been adopted by a variety of organizations to simplify the deployment, management, and maintenance of Hyperledger Fabric networks. IntellectEU is pleased to announce that the Software-as-a-Service version of this cutting-edge platform will be available in June to enable organizations to further speed up the go-to-market and time-to-value of their solutions. For more information, please visit www.catalyst.intellecteu.com.

Kaleido – announced the beta of Hyperledger Fabric on Kaleido. When creating an environment, customers and users now have “Hyperledger Fabric” as a protocol option in addition to Corda OS and Ethereum variants Quorum, Go-Ethereum, and Hyperledger Besu. Learn more here: https://www.kaleido.io/blockchain-blog/hyperledger-fabric-is-now-available-on-kaleido.

KompiTech – is announcing the implementation of Hyperledger Fabric v2.3 as a part of the upgrade of the KompiTech Blockchain Platform. KompiTech is a technology provider of enterprise blockchain, supply chain management, IT service solutions, and a Hyperledger Fabric Certified Service Provider (HCSP). Learn more: https://blockchain.kompitech.com/.

KrypC – has announced several milestones including (1) launching a Blockchain-as-a-Service for the newly released Hyperledger Fabric 2.2. KrypC’s new BaaS service is the simplest way to build, deploy and manage HLF 2.2 based solutions. (2) The release of a free HLF 2.2 deployment template that is available in the Azure Marketplace. (3) An SI partnership with Hedera to provide a Verification-as-a-Service (VaaS) solution. KrypC VaaS is designed to provide a high degree of authenticity to digital information from any source, including Hyperledger Fabric programs, that are verifiable in the Hedera Network independently. And (4) becoming a Hyperledger Certified Service Provider. Find out more: www.krypc.com.

Sberbank – announced its tokenization platform is in the final stage of being licensed by the Bank of Russia. The platform will be used for issuance of Digital Financial Assets — a new class of financial instruments that came into force in Russia in 2021. Sberbank’s clients will be able to issue tokens to raise capital, represent their contracts and trade goods. A payment token tied to a Russian ruble supports settlement of the trades in tokens and enables delivery vs payment and smart contracts. The protocol of choice is Hyperledger Fabric adapted for the use of local cryptography and SmartBFT for its consensus. Sberbank is also opening their platform to fintech developers to create new applications based on smart contracts. The platform opened for business in December 2020 to trade renewable energy certificates. Learn more: https://www.sberbank.com/index.

Valid Network – announced a partnership with Zeeve to combine the companies’ market-leading strengths in enterprise blockchain. The partnership adds Valid Network’s Blockchain Security and intelligence capabilities to Zeeve’s automated blockchain network management to help enterprises implement and scale their blockchain operations. Learn more: https://valid.network/news/zeeve-and-valid-network-partner-to-secure-enterprise-blockchain.

About Hyperledger Global Forum 2021

Hyperledger Global Forum, the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021, is open to users and contributors of Hyperledger projects from around the globe looking to connect, network and collaborate. Hyperledger Global Forum, taking place June 8-10, will provide an opportunity to learn and understand various aspects of the ecosystem, including technical roadmaps, milestones and the latest uses and applications across industries and markets for Hyperledger projects and other related technologies.

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Diversity & Inclusion Sponsor), IBM (Diamond Sponsor), Filecoin Foundation (Platinum), Hitachi (Platinum), Siemens (Platinum), Zuellig Pharma (Platinum), AWS (Silver), BTP (Silver), Chainyard (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), KrypC (Silver & Wellness), DTTC (Closed Captioning and Translation), Walmart Global Tech (Parent & Caregiver Support Program), Crypto Open Patent Alliance – COPA (Birds of Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community), Diversity in Blockchain (Community), Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (Community), Greater Blockchain Business Council (Community), Kerala Blockchain Academy – KBA (Community), Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community), Blocknews (Media Partner), Cointelegraph China (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), CrytoNewsZ (Media Partner), Forekast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Tuoluo Finance (Media Partner).

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Jun 08

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Hyperledger Kicks Off Global Forum With New Members, New Training Offering

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Announces Seven New Members, Free Hyperledger Besu Course

SAN FRANCISCO (June 8, 2021) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced seven new members, including Information Data Systems, Filecoin Foundation, Kaleido and LACChain, on the first day of Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (HGF, #HyperledgerForum), the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021. Information Data Systems also joins the ranks of Hyperledger Training Partners and Hyperledger Certified Service Providers.

Hyperledger, a multi-venture, multi-stakeholder effort hosted at the Linux Foundation, is hosting its annual Global Forum as a global event with virtual content delivered in two segments each day, spaced across time zones. The packed agenda includes more than 100 sessions over three days. In celebration of HGF, Hyperledger and Linux Foundation Training & Certification are offering a 50% percent discount on all Hyperledger courses and certifications the month of June. The two have also teamed up to launch a new, free course, Hyperledger Besu Essentials: Creating a Private Blockchain Network.

“Hyperledger Global Forum is all about bringing our global community together and shining the spotlight on the work it is doing and the impact it is having,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger, and Managing Director for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “The depth and breadth of business and technical content, demos and use cases being presented this week shows that our technology is moving quickly up both the innovation and adoption curves and is reshaping a range of industries, from finance to supply chains to healthcare. Kicking the event off with this wave of new members highlights the continued investment organizations of all sizes and from all corners of the world are making to drive forward open source enterprise blockchain.”

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 Filecoin Foundation, Information Data Systems, IPwe, Kaleido and Surge.

Hyperledger supports an open 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 at no cost as associate members. Associate members joining this month include LACChain and the Open Earth Foundation.

New member quotes:

Filecoin Foundation

“The Filecoin Foundation is an independent organization that facilitates governance of the Filecoin network, funds critical development projects, supports the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem, and advocates for Filecoin and the decentralized web,” said Marta Belcher, Board Chair, Filecoin Foundation. “We believe Filecoin’s decentralized storage capabilities have tremendous potential in the enterprise space. We’re thrilled to join Hyperledger, a leader in enterprise blockchain technology, to explore these possibilities.”

Information Data Systems

“Information Data Systems provides purpose-built blockchain enabled multi-party business networks for value exchange with varied degrees of decentralization,” said Mr. Sudharshan Reddy Minumula, CEO, Information Data Systems Inc. “Trustflow, our coherent supply chain management product, is powered by Hyperledger Fabric, and we strongly believe our association with Hyperledger enables us to serve our enterprise clients with best possible features and frameworks. Business competence is shifting from enterprises to ecosystems, and we are happy to contribute to Hyperledger projects to accelerate the adoption of enterprise blockchain for the benefit of shared prosperity and a level playing field for all ecosystem players.”

IPwe

“IPwe has been working with Hyperledger since 2018 to modernize the world’s IP system and accelerate innovation,” said Erich Spangenberg, CEO and co-founder of IPwe. “We work closely with leading enterprise, government, university and SME partners to create the patent asset class which has measurable benefits for our partners and improves the human condition. The importance of Hyperledger in the transformation of this critical asset class cannot be understated.”

Kaleido

“Our team began working with blockchain over a half decade ago, helping to shape the ecosystem and accelerate enterprise adoption,” said Steve Cerveny, Founder and CEO, Kaleido. “We are excited to work more closely with the top companies and projects in the Hyperledger community and to take a more active role in shaping the next generation of open blockchain technologies. We bring with us a singular focus for our core mission — to radically simplify the creation of blockchain-based multi-party solutions, so that businesses, governments, and society can benefit.”

Surge

“Hyperledger opened the door to a whole new set of opportunities, making it possible to develop blockchain technology-based systems that could benefit enterprises,” said Marina Raicevic, co-founder of Surge. “In 2018, we started applying Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology to supply chain data management in the field of fashion and luxury, which allows for empowered collaboration and also supports companies in reaching their sustainability goals. After some years of working with this technology, we aim to expand our solution to different industries. Surge is truly proud of being part of the Hyperledger community. We are happy to contribute, with our real use cases, to the possibilities this promising technology offers.”

About Hyperledger Global Forum 2021

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Diversity & Inclusion Sponsor), IBM (Diamond Sponsor), Filecoin Foundation (Platinum), Hitachi (Platinum), Siemens (Platinum), Zuellig Pharma (Platinum), AWS (Silver), BTP (Silver), Chainyard (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), KrypC (Silver & Wellness), DTTC (Closed Captioning and Translation), Walmart Global Tech (Parent & Caregiver Support), Crypto Open Patent Alliance – COPA (Birds of Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community), Diversity in Blockchain (Community), Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (Community), Greater Blockchain Business Council (Community), Kerala Blockchain Academy – KBA (Community), Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community), Blocknews (Media Partner), Cointelegraph China (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), CrytoNewsZ (Media Partner), Forekast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Tuoluo Finance (Media Partner).

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May 13

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Hyperledger Welcomes Six New Members, Announces More Keynotes for Global Forum

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Talks On Fighting Misinformation, the Future of Food, Blockchain Lessons Learned, Health Credentials and Travel, NFTs, CBDCs and Forbes Blockchain 50 in APAC to Take Center Stage

SAN FRANCISCO (May 13, 2021) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced the latest line-up of members joining its global enterprise blockchain community. Six additional organizations, general members ConsenSys Health, Extrimian, Revelry Labs and UNA Blockchain and associate members Blockchain Education Network and Fujian Blockchain Association, are now part of the multi-venture, multi-stakeholder effort hosted at the Linux Foundation.

Additionally, Hyperledger announced a number of keynote speakers for Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (HGF, #HyperledgerForum), the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021. HGF will run for three days (June 8-10) and take place in two segments each day, spaced across time zones, to reach its global community. Each region will have its own dedicated content and sessions, including keynotes for each day.

Keynotes in the Asia Pacific/Europe segment (starting at 8:00 a.m. CEST) will include:

Marie Masserey, Head, Industry Architecture at IATA, who will discuss health credentials and international air travel in a Q+A with Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym.
Michael del Castillo, associate editor at Forbes, who will host a discussion with companies from the Asia Pacific market that were selected for the 2021 Blockchain 50 covering the latest on their deployments.

Those taking center stage during the North America/Europe segment (starting at 8:00 a.m. PDT) will include:

Jonathan Dotan, writer/producer on HBO’s SILICON VALLEY and a current fellow at Stanford and the USC Shoah Foundation, who will present on the Starling Framework for Data Integrity, a ground-breaking methodology for using open-source tools in the fight against the spread of misinformation and the looming threat of deep fakes.
Mary Lacity, Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas and the author of 30 books, most recently Blockchain Fundamentals for the Internet of Value, who will share her insights on what we’ve learned so far about blockchain for business.
Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who will cover the role of DLT in the new era of Smarter Food Safety.

Further rounding out the programming, Hyperledger will also hold mainstage panels on NFTs and CBDCs.

Hyperledger has made diversity and inclusion a focus for Hyperledger Global Forum and has earned a CHAOSS D&I Event Badge for the event. Key initiatives include scholarships, programming for kids during keynotes, closed captioning and live translations to more than a dozen languages.

“Hyperledger Global Forum is always an energizing event for our community and the enterprise blockchain industry,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger, and Managing Director for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “This year’s format has opened the door to a powerful mix of high impact speakers and talks and created the opportunity for a global audience unlike any we’ve had before. By joining now, this latest wave of new members further strengthens our community as we head into HGF and underscores the broad-based commitment to advancing and implementing Hyperledger technologies.”

New member quotes:

ConsenSys Health

“ConsenSys Health helps the healthcare industry operate Ethereum-based solutions for cybersecurity, compliance, privacy, bioethics and identity with the deep technical capabilities of ConsenSys to advance the healthcare industry,” said Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConsenSys Health. “ConsenSys Health is aligned with the Hyperledger community’s efforts to leverage converging innovations like blockchain, tokenization, zero-knowledge cryptography, and federated machine learning to advance immediate and long-term public health goals while preserving individual privacy.”

Extrimian

“We are thrilled to join the Hyperledger community and the Linux Foundation since both share our mission to facilitate blockchain adoption in the enterprise space,” said Guillermo Villanueva, CEO of Extrimian. “Extrimian was born after many years dealing with the complexity of developing real world blockchain applications for the enterprise segment. We realized that there was a missing piece that would facilitate not only the development and operation of decentralized apps, but also the integration to the rest of the technology that enterprises and governments already have. Today we deliver an integrated, simple and intuitive platform that supports RSK, Etherum and Hyperledger Besu among others directly out of the box. In the near future, we will add support for Hyperledger Aries, Ursa and further on we will add Fabric and Avalon. We are also featuring a Marketplace that will easily integrate reusable components from our ecosystem of partners. The final goal is to have a single API and integrated experience that hides the complexities of dealing with the increasing number of platforms and technologies we have in the blockchain space.”

Revelry Labs

“As our blockchain solutions grow and mature, we want the best support available in the industry, and that’s exactly what we get from the Hyperledger community,” said Luke Ledet, CTO of Revelry Labs. “As we continue to deliver enterprise-grade blockchain solutions across a wide range of industries, Hyperledger technologies have allowed us to move quickly and with confidence in this rapidly changing environment.”

UNA Blockchain

“We are thrilled to be joining the Hyperledger community and start working alongside such formidable minds to build a blockchain ecosystem capable of reshaping the tech landscape,” said Olivier Lombard, CEO of UNA Blockchain. “Una aims to harness emerging technologies to service both mankind and nature, and contribute to the decarbonization of the blockchain and automotive sectors.”

About Hyperledger Global Forum 2021

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Diversity & Inclusion Sponsor), IBM (Diamond Sponsor), BTP (Silver), Chainyard (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), KrypC (Silver & Wellness), DTTC (Closed Captioning and Translation), Crypto Open Patent Alliance – COPA (Birds of Feather), Diversity in Blockchain (Diversity), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), CrytoNewsZ (Media Partner) and Ledger Insights (Media Partner).

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Apr 20

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Hyperledger Announces Speakers, Agenda Details for Global Forum

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Leverages Virtual Format to Reach Expanded Global Audience

SAN FRANCISCO (April 20, 2021) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced the agenda details for Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (HGF, #HyperledgerForum), the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021. Scheduled for June 8-10, 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. To accommodate a global audience, HGF will take place in two segments each day, spaced across time zones, and feature real-time translation for more than a dozen languages.

More than 1,200 Hyperledger contributors, members, service providers and enterprise end users from around the world will gather for the third Hyperledger Global Forum. The packed three days will include more than 100 sessions across business, technical and demo theater tracks. Additionally, to drive engagement with speakers and other attendees, HGF will leverage a range of interactive features from the Hopin events platform, including live Q+A, chat and polling functionality, speed networking, virtual booths and Birds of a Feather and AMA break-out discussions.

Hyperledger also announced that Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will deliver the opening day keynote for Europe and the Americas. In a preview of his talk, Yiannas said: “The benefits of distributed ledger technology have been clear to me for a long time. But food supply chain disruptions and market place imbalances experienced early-on in the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how a distributed, decentralized, yet digitally connected food system could be a safer, stronger, and more resilient food system.”

Hyperledger Global Forum will kick off at 8:00 am CEST on each day with a four hour block of content and speakers focused on Asia and the European markets and community. Sessions will range from The State of Blockchain Interoperability in 2021 and UAE Trade Connect – UAE’s First and Largest Blockchain-based Trade Finance Platform to Oceans Plastics Recycling Solution using Hybrid Blockchain and Universal Rendering of SSI Credentials.

A second block will begin at 11:00 am EDT with another four hours of content from speakers in Europe and the Americas. Topics will include Building Transformative Platforms to Scale 5G Ecosystems using Hyperledger, Supply Chain Security – Tackling Compliance, Fraud and Counterfeiting, Building a Hyperledger Indy Network – A Technical Overview and Blockchain in the COVID-19 Fight – US HHS Testing Results Reporting Using Distributed Ledger.

Once again, to ensure a compelling content agenda that aligns with top-of-mind issues for its community, Hyperledger turned the selection process over to an external Program Committee. This community group went through a detailed review process to determine the speaker line-up for Hyperledger Global Forum 2021.

“Hyperledger Global Forum is our annual opportunity to bring together the extended enterprise blockchain community and focus on the evolution and impact of our technologies on a global scale,” said Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger and general manager for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “With this, our third HGF, we are embracing the virtual nature of things as an opportunity to reach a larger global audience and host conversations about our technologies, use cases and future applications across time zones and, thanks to real-time translation, in local languages. We are at the critical point in market adoption and are looking forward to addressing the key questions of ‘why blockchain’ and ‘why now’ with this great line-up of speakers and content.”

About Hyperledger Global Forum 2021

Initial event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Diversity & Inclusion Sponsor), IBM (Diamond Sponsor), Chainyard (Silver), DTTC (Closed Captioning and Translation), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner) and Ledger Insights (Media Partner).

To register, go here.

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