The Hyperledger Foundation, a global open source collaboration of enterprise blockchain technologies, has launched its largest annual event, the Hyperledger Global Forum 2022.
Ahead of Monday’s event, the Foundation announced the addition of eight new members to its international community, namely: CasperLabs, Realto Group, BCW Group, Banque de France, Central Bank of Nigeria, Canada’s Digital Identity Laboratory, International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) and DSR Corporation.
Daniel Barbosa, Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation and General Manager of Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation, shared that: “Hyperledger technologies are playing a huge role in reshaping existing markets and creating new ones. Our new members in the Hyperledger community It is bringing a variety of innovations, accelerating the development of open, decentralized technologies that will be the infrastructure for many generations of new services and applications.”
The Hyperledger Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to bring together critical resources and infrastructure to create a thriving and stable ecosystem around open-source software blockchain projects. Hyperledger allows member organizations to tap into its open source distributed ledger framework, tools and resources to build enterprise-grade, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support business transaction needs.
The Foundation’s enterprise-grade blockchain software projects are designed and built by a developer community for service providers, start-ups, vendors, end-user organizations, academia and commercial solutions.
The latest members of the Hyperledger Foundation, such as the Banque de France and the Central Bank of Nigeria, suggest that governments around the world are gradually opening up to blockchain technology and its innovations.
Recently, Nigeria announced that it is in early stage talks with Binance to create a crypto-friendly economic zone within the country.
