Hyperledger Adds 8 New Members General members that have joined the community this month are BlocWatch, BondEvalue, Ledger Leopard, LimeChain, Telefónica, Tech Mahindra and Vonechain Technology. Associate members include ETC Cooperative. Learn more >>

Hyperledger Takes on Blockchain Week NYC

This month, Hyperledger members and the enterprise blockchain community at-large congregated in NYC for Blockchain Week 2019. Hyperledger had great representation throughout the week with talks on-stage at Consensus, Construct and the Strongurl Blockchain Lunch. We want to thank PwC for hosting the Hyperledger NY Meetup for blockchain talks and networking at their office. In case you missed Blockchain Week NYC in-person, we encourage you to enjoy Coindesk’s videos of the Hyperledger sessions from Consensus and Construct over lunch one day this week. Control+F (or Command+F) and search for “Hyperledger” for Executive Director Brian Behlendorf’s keynote at Construct or catch the technical introductions to a few projects in the Hyperledger greenhouse. We also recommend Brian’s panel, Herding Cats - The Art of Building Enterprise Consortia.

Hyperledger Aries Now Available

Focused on blockchain-based identity use cases? You’ll be excited to learn about Aries, the latest project to join the Hyperledger greenhouse. “Hyperledger Aries is infrastructure for blockchain-rooted, peer-to-peer interactions. It’s not a blockchain and it’s not an application.” Learn more about what you can do with Hyperledger Aries in the blog post by Nathan George, CTO of Sovrin Foundation and Hyperledger Aries sponsor and contributor.

Hyperledger Vendor Directory

Using Hyperledger Iroha, it took about 10 minutes for Makoto Takemiya to start building a blockchain. And with this month’s release of v1.0, the code is now production-ready. Read about the project’s design for a faster, less complex path to DLT deployment, the special set of improvements in this latest release, and its use in market today in this post by Makoto Takemiya, Co-founder and CEO of Soramitsu and Hyperledger Iroha contributor.

Accord Project Forum 

London, UK | June 6
The Accord Project is hosting a day long conference dedicated to the Smart Legal Contracts industry, featuring keynote speakers, panel discussions, and showcase demonstrations with participation from leading organizations from Hyperledger. Hyperledger members can use promo code ‘apforum25’ for a 25% discount off registration.

Synchronize Europe
London, UK | June 18
Brian Behlendorf will lead the session “Bridge Between Private DLT and Public Chains” at 1:10pm. As the difference between “permissioned” and “permissionless” starts to blur, what will define a blockchain network? Will one network or vendor rule them all? Will we see a network of networks, each with different implementations and technologies? How much will open source and standards play a role in any convergence?

Blockchain Expo Europe 2019
Amsterdam, Netherlands | June 19-20
Blockchain Expo Europe hosts two days of top-level enterprise blockchain content from leading brands, embracing and developing cutting edge blockchain technologies. Brian Behlendorf will keynote on the Blockchain Platforms & Strategies stage on June 19 at 10:30am and speak again that day on the Blockchain Solutions for Enterprise stage at 2:30pm.

Hyperledger for Digital Transformation Workshop
Toronto, Canada | June 20-21
Hyperledger Training Partner and Member ChainDigit is hosting a two-day workshop in Toronto to provide business leaders and technologists with a solid understanding of enterprise blockchain implementation with Hyperledger Fabric. Hyperledger members and Meetup participants may use the promo code HYPCD2019 for a discount on their workshop registration.

Hyperledger Bootcamp
São Paulo, Brazil | June 24-25
We are excited to host a bootcamp in São Paulo to help the local blockchain community get up to speed on how to contribute to Hyperledger technologies and how to build their first blockchain projects. This event is intended for developers, designers, writers, organizers, artists, and project managers alike.

Open Source Summit China 2019
Shanghai, China | June 24-26
The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit gathers technologists and open source industry leaders, including Brian Behlendorf, who will keynote on June 25 at 12:30pm on China’s Expansion of Open Source Blockchain in 2019. Tong Li, Senior Software Engineer at IBM, will speak on June 26 at 9:00am about multi-tenancy and blockchain, deploying Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes.

Hyperledger Member Summit 
Tokyo, Japan | July 30-31
MEMBER BONUS! Hyperledger Member Summit is fast approaching and we have an incredible agenda coming together. This is the annual event where our member community comes together to take an honest and thorough look at where we are and where we should be heading. This year’s member summit theme is “Hyperledger In Action” focused on how we scale Hyperledger projects and develop real use cases. Between the open discussion held under Chatham House rules, and ample networking opportunities both day and night, Member Summit offers the hallway track you do not want to miss.

ISO Volunteers to Join Hyperledger Working Groups and Special Interest Groups
You don’t need to be a developer to contribute to Hyperledger blockchain technologies. Our working groups and special interest groups seek volunteer designers, writers, marketers, PMs and beyond to help create materials for use by the wider community. Meetings are open to the public and detailed on their related wiki page.
 
Looking for blockchain-as-a-service? Explore the Hyperledger Vendor Directory
The Hyperledger vendor directory lists more than 85 qualified vendors that can help advise or build your blockchain project. Check them out!
 
Hyperledger Meetups Hosted Around The World
Want to get to know others in your hometown interested in enterprise blockchain technologies? We now have 60,000+ members across more than 170 Meetup groups in 73 countries around the world! Join your local Hyperledger Meetup or let us help you start a group if there isn’t one in your area yet.
 
Get Started with Hyperledger Projects
Ready to get your hands on the code? Enter the Hyperledger greenhouse and check out the project pages for pointers to help get you started with the technical communities. There you will find explainer videos and links to documentation, where to download the code and where to ask your technical questions, etc.

Get the latest technical thought leadership from the Hyperledger community.

50% Discount on Certified Blockchain Developer Hyperledger Fabric from Blockchain Training Alliance
As a follow-up to their 2-hour webinar, Hyperledger Fabric 1.4 Key Concepts, official Hyperledger Training Partner and member Blockchain Training Alliance is offering our member community a special 50% discount on BTA Certifications. Hyperledger members can use promo code HYPERLEDGER50 to save on blockchain for business exams, proctored globally at PearsonVue.

When Hyperledger Sawtooth Met Kubernetes – Simplifying Enterprise Blockchain Adoption
Blockchain Technology Partners teamed up with Digital Asset to deliver DAML Smart Contracts for Hyperledger Sawtooth deployed and managed on Kubernetes using its blockchain management platform, Sextant. This blog post breaks down the community collaboration behind our latest case study.

An overview of Self-Sovereign Identity: the use case at the core of Hyperledger Indy
Dr. Phillip J. Windley, Chair of the Board of Trustees at Sovrin Foundation shares his expert perspective on decentralized digital identity. Sovrin Foundation is a Hyperledger member and the initial code contributor behind Hyperledger Indy.
Lerer Hippeau, Node-Marketplace, BYOI & Algorand Congratulations to Hyperledger member Blockdaemon on their latest funding round. Read the blog post by CEO and Founder Konstantin Richter to learn more about Blockdaemon’s middleware platform helping enterprises to scale different types of blockchain networks.

Upgraded Hyperledger Fabric Sees 7-Fold Increase in Transaction Speed
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada shared they had designed and implemented a new series of optimizations that increased the volume of data that Hyperledger Fabric can process from 3,000 to 20,000 transactions per second.
 
Hyperledger Announces Aries, a Toolkit for Blockchain-Based Identity Management
Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger Executive Director, was joined by Evernym’s Drummond Reed for a live interview at Consensus in which they detailed the technology and use cases for Hyperledger Aries.

Hyperledger’s Brian Behlendorf on Identity Management Investing News Network caught up with Brian Behlendorf at Collision for a Q+A on Hyperledger and blockchain basics and the recent announcement of Hyperledger Aries.

IBM Establishes 5 Blockchain For Good Principles To Drive Enterprise Adoption And Benefit Society
A Forbes column highlights IBM’s long-standing role in helping to develop Hyperledger Fabric and ongoing commitment to open source development before diving into IBM’s five “blockchain for good principals.”

Hyperledger Iroha v1.0 arrives with fully operational multisignature
JAXenter reports details of the 1.0 release of Hyperleder Iroha along with a recap of core features for the platform and highlights from an earlier interview with Soramitsu’s Makoto Takemiya on about the platform.

Boston Fed Announces Plans To Design a Blockchain ‘Supervisory Node’
Boston Fed’s senior vice president Jim Cunha details the bank’s blockchain trials, including a Proof of Concept using Hyperledger Fabric, and offers up insights into future plans.

‘Blockchain Is Really Democratizing a Lot of Things,’ Interview With Marta Piekarska, Director of Hyperledger’s Ecosystem
This in-depth Q+A covers everything from the founding of Hyperledger to diversity in the blockchain space and from the pace of adoption by industry to challenges of growing the technical community.

Oracle Blockchain Director: Stacking Technologies Is The Real Key To Adoption
Anant Kadiayala, senior director of blockchain and IoT at Oracle, lays out his take on reducing pain points in blockchain deployments, steps Oracle has taken to make Hyperledger Fabric more accessible to enterprises through its product offerings and some prime example of customer successes and use cases.