Hyperledger Continues Strong Momentum in 2017 with 11 New Members
March 2017 by Marc Jacob
Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced that 11 new members have joined the project to help create an open standard for distributed ledgers for a new generation of transactional applications. Hyperledger also announced American Express and Daimler AG as Premier members earlier this year.
Hyperledger aims to enable organizations to build robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by creating an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework and code base. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology. The latest members include: Bank of England, Bitmark, China Merchants Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Kaiser Permanente, Kubique S.p.A., MadHive, Monax, OSCRE and RadarWin Cyber Technology.