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.
This line-up of members join as Daniela Barbosa assumes the position of Executive Director of Hyperledger. 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
“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.