Over the past several years, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) have gained a lot of interest and enthusiasm across many different industries, such as banking and healthcare. Enterprises operating in these industries are seeking to use a DLT to process, validate, and authenticate transactions, for example, exchanges of data, in a more scalable and secure way. In previous chapters, I introduced several of the open source platforms available that use this technology. However, two of the leading platform frameworks are Ethereum and Hyperledger (specifically the Hyperledger Fabric framework). When you compare both frameworks, based on their whitepaper and documentation, it is obvious that Hyperledger Fabric (http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and Ethereum (https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper) are very different in both their product vision and field of application.
The first thing to observe is that the development of each platform...