Yesterday Baidu Cloud, part of China’s dominant search engine,
unveiled its Blockchain as a Service platform (BaaS) offering, the Baidu Blockchain Engine (BBE). Baidu refers to it as the “blockchain operating system”. The BaaS platform currently supports three blockchain protocols: a permissioned version of Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Baidu’s own XuperChain which it’s open sourcing.
Last year it published plans that also included Hyperledger Sawtooth, but that’s not available at launch.
The company lists many expected features such as trusted computing environment, high performance and high throughput, scalable storage and a smart contract security audit.
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