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FedEx, Honeywell International and others join Hyperledger blockchain consortium

Thu, 27 Sep 2018, 04:31 am UTC

Hyperledger, an open-source collaborative initiative to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, has announced the addition of 14 new members.

With this, the consortium has grown to more than 270 member organizations, who are now contributing to the growth of Hyperledgers' open source distributed ledger frameworks and tools.

The latest general members include BetaBlocks, Blockchain Educators, Cardstack, Constellation Labs, Elemential Labs, FedEx, Honeywell International Inc., KoreConX, Northstar Venture Technologies, Peer Ledger, Syncsort, and Wanchain.

Associate members joining the initiative this month include Ministry of Citizens' Services of British Columbia, Canada, and the Government of Bermuda.

“We are gaining traction around the world in market segments from finance to healthcare and government to logistics. This growth and diversity is a signal of the increasing recognition of the strategic value of enterprise blockchain and commitment to the adoption and development of open source frameworks to drive new business models,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger.

Founded in 2015, Hyperledger aims to enable organizations to build robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by creating enterprise-grade, open source distributed ledger frameworks and code bases. It currently includes 10 business blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

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