Boeing and banking software company FIS are joining the governance council of Hedera Hashgraph, the public distributed ledger. Yesterday the organization also
announced that a beta version of its main network would have open access to the public from September 16th. That means any developer with an account can create a decentralized application (dApp).
FIS provides technology solutions to commercial and investment banks as well as insurance. In July it bought the payment processing company Worldpay for $43 billion. It has a market capitalization of $84 billion.
Existing members of the Hedera governing council are
Deutsche Telekom, DLA Piper,
IBM, Magalu, Nomura, Swirlds (which owns the technology), Swisscom and Tata Communications.
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