Tomorrow the enterprise blockchain alliance Hyperledger celebrates its fifth birthday. With the ongoing pandemic, it wasn’t viable to throw an in-person party. But it’s having a virtual shindig by recreating something similar online with a celebratory networking session on Thursday. With a combination of big and small groups, the hope is that people can get to know each other.
It’s also an opportunity to look back at the genesis of Hyperledger and the progress so far.
It all started at a 2015 meeting in Brooklyn with IBM and numerous multinationals and financial institutions. While the aim was to avoid duplicating development efforts, the group was unable to agree on a common core protocol. “So we took the approach to have what’s now known as a greenhouse and umbrella,” said Dan O’Prey, Chief Strategy Officer, Digital Asset. “To have multiple different technologies in there, and essentially let them evolve independently, compete in some ways, collaborate in others.”
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