Brian Behlendorf, the executive director of Hyperledger strongly believes that Blockchain will make its debut in the industry of trade finance by the end of 2017.
On March 14, the Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger Project promised the community to release a production-ready Blockchain protocol by the end of this month. Exactly 10 days after the announcement of Hyperledger, alpha release of the Hyperledger Fabric version 1.0, the open source software being developed by leading corporations and financial institution, was released.
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