JAXenter: Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0 has just been released. What’s the star feature of this milestone?
Dan Middleton: Since Hyperledger focuses on enterprise-grade blockchain technologies and is recognized as one of the leaders (rather than focusing on cryptocurrency), this is a major milestone for the Hyperledger technical community. Sawtooth has a number of differentiating features you’ll see listed below. The distinction for a 1.0 release, though, is not features but maturity. See #6 for a fuller description of what that means.
In a nutshell, though it means the code has been rigorously tested and reviewed, the platform has been field tested, and you can build your apps on the API without fear of it changing and breaking your apps — an issue that plagued many companies starting out with other blockchains.
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