Today Hedera announced that Hitachi America has joined the governing council of its Hedera DLT. Hitachi plans to use the public distributed ledger for industrial applications. This includes supply chain and sustainability solutions, where it intends to run proof of concept within the year.
Hedera’s governing council now boasts 30 enterprise members. They include the likes of IBM, Google, abrdn, Nomura, Standard Bank, DBS Bank, FIS (Worldpay) and Boeing. The group operates the initial nodes that write to the network, preventing any forks. They also decide the direction of the network.
According to the announcement, Hitachi has developed blockchain solutions for payment systems, supply chains, predictive maintenance and mining.
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