Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced that it has added the distributed ledger project, Iroha into its incubation status.
Iroha was originally developed by Soramitsu, a member of Hyperledger, and aims to provide a growth environment where C++, web and mobile app developers can contribute to the Hyperledger Project, the release stated. Soramitsu announced the open sourcing and proposal of Iroha earlier in September. Iroha seeks to match with Fabric, Sawtooth Lake, and other potential projects, by creating reusable components in C++.
“We’re pleased that Iroha has been accepted for incubation into Hyperledger,” Makoto Takemiya at Soramitsu said. “By creating C++, mobile, and web development environments for Hyperledger, new developers can join the project and help contribute not only to Iroha, but to other sub-projects, such as Fabric and Sawtooth Lake.”
Iroha blockchain project provides an environment for C++ developers to contribute to Hyperledger, an infrastructure for mobile and web application support and a framework to experiment with new APIs and consensus algorithms that could potentially be incorporated into Fabric in the future. The project features include simple construction; modern, domain-driven C++ design; emphasis on mobile application development; among others.
“Iroha allows more developers to interact with Hyperledger to build infrastructural projects and applications requiring distributed ledger technology. It is encouraging to see member companies actively contributing to a diverse and sustainable open source blockchain ecosystem built on cooperation,” Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger said.
Iroha is composed of Iroha core that offers the distributed ledger infrastructure having data membership services, consensus algorithm, peer-to-peer network transmission, data validation, and chaincode infrastructure. It also has Iroha iOS, Android and JavaScript libraries, providing functions for performing common operations like digitally signing transactions.
“Working with community members and use case partners, we would like to continue to improve upon Iroha and have it reach and active project stage in the future. The end goal is to realize a suite of components that can be freely interoperable with other Hyperledger projects,” the release stated.
