Hyperledger
Hyperledger (or Hyperledger project) is a cross-industry collaborative effort to create blockchain-based open standard for distributed ledgers for globally conducted business transactions. The project has been started by Linux Foundation[1] and backed by technological, financial, banking and supply chain companies worldwide.[2]
The project aims to create an open-standard, decentralised ledger based on blockchain technology to advance worldwide business transaction processing in terms of cost-effectiveness, speed and traceability.
Founding members of the initiative represent a diverse group of stakeholders, including: ABN AMRO, Accenture, ANZ Bank, Blockchain, BNY Mellon, Calastone, Cisco, CLS, CME Group, ConsenSys, Credits, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Deutsche Börse Group, Digital Asset, Fujitsu, Guardtime, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, IntellectEU, J.P. Morgan, NEC, NTT DATA, R3, Red Hat, State Street, SWIFT, Symbiont, VMware and Wells Fargo.
History
On March 29, 2016, Linux Foundation announced[3] 10 additional members and the result of elections:
Blockstream, Bloq, eVue Digital Labs, Gem, itBit, Milligan Partners, Montran Labs, Ribbit.me, Tequa Creek Holdings and Thomson Reuters joined Hyperledger as general members.
On May 19, 2016, Linux Foundation announced[4] 8 additional members and that Brian Behlendorf has joined as Executive Director of the project:[5]
Beijing AiYi Digital Finance, Broadridge, Cloudsoft, Coinplug, Cuscal, Eurostep Holdings, Soramitsu, and Skry.
Brian Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum.
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