In August last year, Besu joined the Hyperledger community as an open source enterprise blockchain solution. Today it graduated from incubation to an active Hyperledger project. Initially developed by PegaSys, part of ConsenSys, the Ethereum client was previously known as Pantheon.
Hyperledger Besu is a competitor to JP Morgan’s Quorum and is designed to work both as a client for the public Ethereum mainnet and permissioned blockchains. A high profile project that’s using Besu is Liquidshare, a solution for SME stocks backed by Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, Euronext and Euroclear.
The Besu client uses the Java programming language, which is popular amongst enterprise developers. It includes features that are demanded by enterprises such as privacy and permissioning.
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