Eris Industries, a leading platform provider for enterprise blockchain applications, has announced French startup Ledger as its hardware security partner to improve security of critical workflows and protect its blockchain-based infrastructure.

Founded in January 2015, Ledger is a technological leader in the blockchain security industry and provides a wide range of trusted hardware solutions for both consumer and enterprise usage. The launch of Ledger Nano – a hardware wallet – in more than 80 countries helped Ledger to solidify its footing in the international Bitcoin ecosystem.

“Ledger is at the forefront of providing tools to secure blockchains and manage private keys. Ledger’s BOLOS platform is a crucial security offering which fills a vital security gap in the blockchain ecosystem”, said Casey Kuhlman, CEO of Eris Industries. “We are therefore very pleased to be working with Ledger, and together we will provide our users with the most flexible, capable, and user-friendly application development tooling in the market today.”

Eris Industries builds software that allows anyone to develop their own secure, low-cost, run-anywhere applications using blockchain and smart contract technology. It is the maintainer of the free and open-source Eris Platform, the world’s leading enterprise blockchain application development platform. 

The company has been making remarkable strides recently, as evidenced by its recent partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In addition, it successfully delivered a commercial paper prototype system for 40 of R3 CEV’s 43 member banks. Eris is the only blockchain application platform available on both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services Marketplace.

“Eris Industries is a fast growing blockchain infrastructure provider for Fortune 500 customers. We are looking forward to deploying our solutions to their infrastructure and bring a strong layer of security to the management of critical workflows and cryptographic primitives”, said Eric Larchevêque, Ledger’s CEO, said.