New Members and Certified Service Providers Joined Hyperledger for Annual Member Summit

• Vikash Kumar Das
• December 29, 2022

Curious to know who all new members and Certified Service Providers joined the Hyperledger annual Member Summit? What was the agenda of such a Member Summit? This article will answer all your questions.

 Introduction to Hyperledger 

Hyperledger is an open-source group whose mission is to increase business Blockchains’ adoption through global open source collaboration. It partners with more than 250 member companies, including the global leaders in finance, banking, supply chains, IoT, manufacturing, etc. Launched in 2015 by the Linux Foundation, it aims to develop enterprise-grade and distributed ledger applications to support cross-industry blockchain technologies. Due to its advancements, it has multiple projects under it; however, four are widely used. Even though Hyperledger has advanced a lot already, it is still evolving and maturing enough to draw the attention of businesses interested in creating more affordable and easier blockchain solutions. 

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Hyperledger Umbrella 

Let’s briefly define all the projects under the Hyperledger community

• Hyperledger Fabric provides a platform for the development of different products, solutions, and applications based on Blockchain for business use. 
• Hyperledger Burrow is a permissioned Ethereum smart-contract blockchain node that handles multiple transactions and executes smart contract code on the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
• Hyperledger Sawtooth is an enterprise-level, permissioned, scalable blockchain platform that uses Proof of Elapsed Time(PoET) consensus mechanism.
• Hyperledger Besu is an Ethereum client designed to be enterprise-friendly for public and private permissioned networks.
• Hyperledger Indy is a distributed ledger that supports several tools and libraries for digital identities rooted in blockchains.
• Hyperledger Aroha works on Linux and Mac OS, with several mobile and desktop libraries and can be used for interbank settlement, healthcare, logistics, etc.

What is the Hyperledger Member Summit?

The Hyperledger Member Summit is held each year, bringing together the Hyperledger group to learn about the latest innovations, share best practices and work together to accelerate rapid progress across the industry. This year it was scheduled on September 10-11, 2020. However, this time the Hyperledger community announced that Member Summit took place in a virtual format to meet wider audiences.

New Members Who Became Part of Annual Member Summit 

As the Hyperledger group welcomes the virtual Member Summit’s new participants and certified service providers, it showcases eight new members and seven firms that have been Hyperledger Certified Service Providers (HCSPs). 

Eight new organizations have joined for the annual member summit, including Chainstack, SIMBA 

Chain, SIX Digital Exchange, and Visa, to engage with Hyperledger ‘s global group. 

To become a Hyperledger Certified Service Provider (HCSP), the training criteria were successfully completed by various companies, including Creativehill, DeepDive Technology Group, NEC, SAP, SwissCom, Tech Mahindra, and Tencent. 

Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger, believes that Member Summit is crucial for grounding points for our community. In his words, 

“The pace of adoption for enterprise blockchain is accelerating, and our members are a driving force for critical new technologies and solutions. Our latest members will be important new voices as we set agendas and roadmaps that will keep us pushing this market forward in the year ahead.”

Chainstack Chainstack aims to make launching and scaling of decentralized networks and applications easy. On any cloud, it offers enterprise-grade, managed blockchain services, and aims to offer scalability, flexibility, and transparency.

Creativehill aims at building fintech solutions to find new opportunities in digital finance systems. It aims at building permissioned blockchain systems and offers consultation to those fields where Blockchain can be applied.

DeepDive Technology Group aims at building intuitive and complex blockchain solutions and believes that the Hyperledger community plays a leading role in the advancement of enterprise blockchain. 

EMURGO is a multinational blockchain technology company providing solutions for developers, startups, enterprises, and governments. It aims at developing Blockchain and smart contracts solutions for organizations of all sizes. 

SIMBA Chain is a cloud-based, smart-contract-as-a-service network that enables users to deploy globally accessible decentralized apps (dApps). Such apps allow safe, direct links between users and suppliers, removing third-party intermediaries.

Apart from these, SIX Digital Exchange and Valid Network were also a part of the Member Summit 2020.

The Verdict

Hyperledger provides technological and business governance-supported community-driven infrastructure that aims at building enterprise-grade, open-source, distributed ledger systems, and codebases to facilitate business transactions. The Hyperledger community trains the public about the market opportunity that technology holds. Due to its flexibility, scalability, and security, Hyperledger certifications have gained a lot of public attention. If you want to become a Certified Hyperledger Expert, you can sign up to Blockchain Council!

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