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Enterprise blockchain project Hyperledger has announced the opening up of Hyperledger Iroha 1.0 for general availability.
Hyperledger Iroha is a blockchain platform implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. The project aims to provide a development environment where C++ and mobile application developers can contribute to Hyperledger.
According to the official release, Hyperledger Iroha complements other Hyperledger projects by providing an alternative design solution for mobile-oriented use cases in finance and identity management. Its modular architecture makes it additive to existing projects using other Hyperledger technologies and provides a robust library of reusable components to enhance existing applications.
The team is now releasing the first production-ready version with Hyperledger Iroha 1.0, which will offer a “faster, less complex path to DLT [distributed ledger technology] deployment,” Makoto Takemiya, Hyperledger Iroha Contributor and Co-founder/CEO of Soramitsu, said.
Hyperledger Iroha is the fourth active Hyperledger project to reach 1.0, following Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth and Hyperledger Indy.
The team is rolling out a set of new features with the latest version. This includes Yet Another Consensus (YAC) which is a consensus protocol to help ensure the safety of the ledger, even if some nodes are faulty or cannot be trusted.
“You can now focus on implementing your business application, leaving the question of whether you can trust partners’ nodes to Hyperledger Iroha,” Takemiya explained.
Other improvements include fully operational multi-signature transactions (or MST), that is, an option for transactions when the application needs multiple signatures for transaction settlement, and backwards-compatibility allowing companies to integrate Hyperledger Iroha into their business and be sure that no breaking changes will affect it.
Furthermore, new native client libraries deliver cross-application support for desktop/server (on Java, Python, C++) or mobile (iOS, Android (Java)) applications.
Hyperledger Iroha now natively runs on Windows, as well as in Linux and MacOS environments, the release said.
