Hyperledger blockchain project welcomes six new members

Enterprise blockchain project Hyperledger has announced that six more organizations have joined its community.

The latest general members include CENCON BLOCKCHAIN GROUP, State Farm Insurance and Vered Information Technology.

Recently, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a consortium driving the adoption of Enterprise Ethereum, and Hyperledger announced that they have joined each other’s organizations as associate members. Other associate members joining Hyperledger this month include CPqD and Information Technologies Institute, a member of Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH).

Hyperledger is going to hold the inaugural 2018 Hyperledger Global Forum on December 12-15 in Basel, Switzerland at the Congress Center Basel.

"Our growing, diverse and active community is what powers Hyperledger," said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger. "Preparing for the first Hyperledger Global Forum has really brought the scope and scale of all this community has accomplished into focus. Everything from the advances to the core technology to the diverse use cases and the increasing success stories to community-led training and collaboration underscore Hyperledger's growing momentum. The latest members bring even more energy and diversity to the table, helping advance enterprise blockchain adoption worldwide."

Hosted by The Linux Foundation, Hyperledger enables 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. The multi-project, multi-stakeholder effort includes 10 business blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.