Last week JD.com open sourced its
JD Chain blockchain framework. Five months ago the company launched a service, the
JD Blockchain Open Platform which enabled companies to use JD’s platform but only via pre-built APIs. This targeted companies who don’t have the expertise to develop their own solutions. It includes applications like traceable e-invoices. Now JD has opened up its blockchain protocol which enables enterprises to build custom solutions.
The company is also launching the JD Chain Open Source Community to encourage collaboration. JD Chain is made available under the Apache 2 license and is now on
Github.
JD.com says the aim is to improve blockchain performance in five areas. These are the data ledger, the consensus protocols, cryptographic algorithms, data storage and APIs. The company claims the current iteration is capable of 10,000 transactions per second.
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