Hyperledger announces eight new members, including CasperLabs, Banque de France and Central Bank of Nigeria, to launch Hyperledger Global Forum

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Free live streaming of keynotes is available here.

“As we will see on stage here at the Hyperledger Global Forum, the technology and market landscape for open source enterprise blockchain only continues to become more robust,” said Daniela Barbosa, CEO, Hyperledger Foundation and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “Hyperledger technologies play a paramount role in reshaping existing markets and creating new ones. Our newest members bring a diversity of innovation to the Hyperledger community, accelerating the development of open, decentralized technologies that will be the infrastructure for many generations of new services and applications.”

The Hyperledger Foundation enables organizations to create industry-specific applications, platforms and enterprise-class hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by providing enterprise-class, open-source distributed ledger frameworks, libraries and tools. General members joining the community are BCW Group, CasperLabs, DSR Corporation and Realto Group.

The Hyperledger Foundation supports a leading global open source blockchain community that values ​​the contributions and participation of diverse entities. As such, pre-approved non-profit organizations, open source projects and public entities can join the Hyperledger Foundation at no cost as associate members. Affiliate members joining this month include Banque de Francecentral bank i NigeriaDigital Identity Laboratory of Canada and the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA).

Quotes about new members:

BCW Group
“BCW is committed to the success of our customers as they navigate their Web3 transformation. Across many industries, the adoption of hybrid public/private blockchain architectures leveraging Hyperledger Fabric is critical to enterprise blockchain technology adoption,” said Jeffrey Tchui, Partner, Head of BCW Consulting at BCW Group. “We look forward to working with other Hyperledger Foundation members to build important partnerships and find innovative new uses for Hyperledger Fabric and other Hyperledger technologies.”

CasperLabs
“We are joining the Hyperledger Foundation because we are committed to advancing blockchain interoperability to support business operations,” said Medha Parlikar, co-founder and CTO, CasperLabs. “We have already found great success working with IBM to demonstrate the first atomic cross-chain exchange of fungible tokens between an instance of a Hyperledger Fabric permissioned network and the Casper Blockchain on Davos 2022. In a few months, CasperLabs will be ready with an enterprise-grade production solution for cross-chain transactions.”

DSR Corporation
“Our membership in both the Linux and Hyperledger Foundations is an exciting development for DSR and our decentralized systems division as we have been working in the space for over six years,” said Alexander Shcherbakov, Business Unit Manager for Decentralized Systems, DSR Corporation. “This is a fantastic opportunity to bring our nearly 25 years of software development experience to the growing number of companies leveraging the Hyperledger Foundation ecosystem. DSR is eager to make our contribution to both communities as an official member.”

Realto Group
“We are excited and honored to join the Hyperledger community of DLT innovators and enterprises,” said Prasanth Kalangi, founder and CEO of Realto Group. “As a tokenization and Web3 technology provider in the global real estate industry, we have taken a leadership role in helping to shape and transform the way real estate investment and capital raising is currently done. And we look forward to working with the Hyperledger community to advance blockchain education and adoption.”

About Hyperledger Global Forum (#HyperledgerForum)
Hyperledger Global Forum is the largest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community. It’s a unique opportunity for contributors, members, service providers and enterprise end users from around the world to meet, tune, plan and hack together in person. The event is open to anyone involved or interested in using, developing or learning more about Hyperledger’s open source enterprise blockchain technologies. Attendees will hear directly from those actively developing and deploying Hyperledger technologies, as well as technology and business leaders shaping the future of enterprise blockchain. They will also have the chance to speak directly with the Hyperledger Project’s maintainers and technical steering committee, collaborate with other organizations on ideas that will directly impact the future of the Hyperledger Foundation, and promote their work among local communities.

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Keynote Translation), Siemens (Platinum), Digital Asset (Gold and Developer Lounge), Zeeve (gold)AWS (Silver), BONbLOC (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), Corsha (silver)Espeo Blockchain (Bronze), Huawei (Bronze), Kaleido (Bronze), DTTC (Diversity Scholarship), IBM (Birds of a Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community Partner), Blockchain Ireland (Community Partner), Blockchain Research Institute ( Community Partner), Digital Euro Association (Community Partner), Diversity in Blockchain (Community Partner), European Blockchain Association (Community Partner), Global Blockchain Business Council (Community Partner), International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (Community Partner), Kerala Blockchain Academy (Community Partner), Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community Partner), Trust over IP Foundation (Community Partner), Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (Community Partner), Blocknews (Media Partner), BeinCrypto (Media Partner), Cointelegraph (Media Partner) , CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), Forkast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Merge by Fintech Nexus (Media Partner).

About the Hyperledger Foundation
The Hyperledger Foundation was founded in 2015 to bring transparency and efficiency to the enterprise market by fostering a thriving ecosystem around open source blockchain software technologies. As a project of the Linux Foundation, the Hyperledger Foundation coordinates a community of member and non-member organizations, individual contributors, and software developers building platforms, libraries, tools, and solutions for multiparty systems using blockchain, distributed ledger, and related technologies. . Organizations join the Hyperledger Foundation to demonstrate technical leadership, collaborate and network with others, and raise awareness of their efforts in the enterprise blockchain community. Members include industry-leading organizations in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chain, manufacturing, technology and more. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.

About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards and data. The Linux Foundation’s projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, the Hyperledger Foundation, RISC-V and more, are critical to the world’s infrastructure. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and meeting the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models of open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Consult:
Emily Fisher
Linux Foundation/Hyperledger
[email protected]

SOURCE Hyperledger Foundation