Today Hyperledger unveiled a new Greenhouse project, Hyperledger Cactus. It’s an open source blockchain integration project started last year by Accenture in the Hyperledger Lab, and previously known as the Blockchain Integration Framework (BIF). Since then, Fujitsu and others have contributed code. The new branding is a nod to the March Hyperledger Forum in Phoenix, Arizona.
When BIF was first unveiled, it supported Hyperledger Fabric, Quorum and R3’s Corda. Since then, enterprise Ethereum client Hyperledger Besu has been added.
As more enterprise blockchains go into production, interoperability between different blockchain networks is becoming a pressing need. Sometimes a company interacts with more than one sector, such as insurance, where an enterprise may be part of an insurance blockchain. But if it’s insuring trade finance, it may want to participate in a trade finance network and perhaps a supply chain network.
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