August 2019
Hyperledger Adds 11 New Members
An exciting day for the team as they have joined Hyperledger.
"Bitfury's decision to join the Linux Foundation and Hyperledger reflects our commitment to make the world more transparent and trusted through the use of blockchain applications and other emerging technologies," said Valery Vavilov, CEO and co-founder of Bitfury. "We look forward to collaborating with leaders across a variety of sectors to build new blockchain solutions that improve the services and systems that people use every day."
SAN FRANCISCO (July 31, 2019) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today welcomed 11 new members to its expanding enterprise blockchain community. The announcement comes as Hyperledger members from around the world are meeting in Tokyo, Japan, at the annual Hyperledger Member Summit, a two-day event dedicated to community-driven planning, training and networking.

Hyperledger is a multi-venture, multi-stakeholder effort hosted at the Linux Foundation that includes various enterprise blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Hyperledger continues to grow its membership, technology portfolio and domain expertise. In addition to these latest new members, Hyperledger recently added a 14th project, Hyperledger Transact.

"Our annual member summit is always a time to reflect on our progress as a community and a springboard for new technology," said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger. "It's rewarding to see our projects are now powering hundreds of production networks, and we are going deeper into enterprises and wider with our developments every day. The newest members add even more depth and breadth to our community, which is the driving force behind our mission of advancing open source enterprise blockchain adoption."

Hyperledger allows organizations to create solid, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by offering enterprise-grade, open source distributed ledger frameworks and code bases. The latest general members to join the community are Bitfury, Blockforce, Cargill, The Elamachain Foundation, FNZ, Mindtree, Splunk, Truffle Blockchain Group, Inc. and Unbound Tech.

"Bitfury's decision to join the Linux Foundation and Hyperledger reflects our commitment to make the world more transparent and trusted through the use of blockchain applications and other emerging technologies," said Valery Vavilov, CEO and co-founder of Bitfury. "We look forward to collaborating with leaders across a variety of sectors to build new blockchain solutions that improve the services and systems that people use every day."

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