Hyperledger blockchain project has announced new organizations joining the cross-industry blockchain effort, bringing the total to 235 member organizations.
The latest general members to join include BlackRidge Technology, Blockdaemon, Chengdu Chiwu Software Technologies, China Systems Holdings Limited, Evernym, Experian, iownit capital and markets, Inc., Kakaopay, Lucidity, PokitDok and Thinktecture AG. They join Deutsche Bank, which joined earlier this month as a Premier member.
Associate members joining this month include Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), MIT Connection Science and National Institute of Telecommunications (Ministry of Digital Affairs Poland). With the latest addition, the total number of new members in 2018 now stands at 67.
“From healthcare to banking to digital identity management, our members are developing both the use cases and the code for distributed ledgers that scale, connect and interoperate. The accelerating growth we are seeing shows the widening footprint of enterprise blockchain and increasing recognition of a community-based approach to advancing the technology and business models,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger.
The open source collaborative initiative is hosted by The Linux Foundation. Hyperledger aims to enable 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. It includes 10 business blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.
