The Linux Foundation has made significant accomplishments since its inception in 2000. In December 2015, The Linux Foundation announced the Hyperledger project as an open source environment for analyzing, building, and collaborating on the development of distributed ledger systems. The creation of the Hyperledger project has helped to attract many major participants including IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Red Hat, and Accenture.
Notably, Hyperledger focuses primarily on building distributed ledger solutions for permissioned blockchains and consortium networks. It is gaining popularity among large technology companies. Financial players have undoubtedly given blockchain technology substantial exposure as well.
At its core, Hyperledger is an umbrella project of modular open source frameworks and tools for building and experimenting with blockchains...