Ethereum Foundation joins Hyperledger Community

Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, has added eight new members, including Ethereum Foundation, Microsoft, Nornickel and Salesforce. Hyperledger as well as adding a new identity infrastructure project that spotlights interoperability, cross project development and broad community involvement.

Hyperledger is a multi-venture, multi-stakeholder effort hosted at the Linux Foundation that includes various enterprise blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. With the recent launch of Hyperledger Aries, there are now a total 13 projects in the Hyperledger greenhouse.

"Our new members illustrate the breadth of organizations that see the value of contributing to the Hyperledger community," said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger. "The mix of blue chip technology companies, international organizations, logistics and manufacturing players and academia that have joined us from point around the world show the widespread interest and investment in open source enterprise blockchain technologies. This broad-based involvement is what drives our expanding portfolio of open source projects, which are fully conceived, developed and advanced by the ever-growing Hyperledger community."

The latest general members to join the community are Gloscad, Microsoft, Milligan Partners, Nornickel and Salesforce. Criss Boukoulou, CEO and co-founder of Gloscad. "Our main goal is to provide sustainable solutions to the most basic human needs. Hyperledger offers an opportunity to reinvent the agricultural model by building trust on human level. As a general member, we look forward to contributing to this new ecosystem."

"Our journey in the blockchain ecosystem has brought us a long way, and now is the time for us to join the Hyperledger community," said Marley Gray, Principal Architect, Blockchain Engineering at Microsoft. "We are proud of our contributions to such a diverse blockchain ecosystem, from our Azure service offerings and developer toolkits to our leadership in driving open specifications. We look forward to contributing to the community's projects as well as initiating new ones based on emerging standards."

"Joining Hyperledger is tremendously valuable to us as we develop blockchain solutions for Mobility as a Service," said Matt Milligan, Managing Partner at Milligan Partners. "By working in this diverse open source community, we can be more creative and more innovative than we could ever be on our own. We're thrilled to support and contribute to the Hyperledger community."

"Blockchain is quickly becoming a foundational technology for organizations to deliver a truly connected customer experience," said Adam Caplan, SVP, Emerging Technology, Salesforce. "Hyperledger has created a great blockchain community that we're excited to learn from and be a part of."