Today Hyperledger, part of the Linux Foundation announced its latest enterprise blockchain project,
Hyperledger Grid. The initiative is a framework that provides a set of tools particularly suited to supply chain blockchains. The main sponsors are agribusiness company Cargill and two of the maintainers of the Hyperledger Sawtooth blockchain protocol, Intel and Bitwise IO. This is the first project focused on a particular industry.
Many people associate Hyperledger with Hyperledger Fabric. But in fact, there are three Hyperledger blockchain protocols – Fabric, Sawtooth and Iroha – and eight other blockchain related projects covering identity, interoperability, smart contracts and other topics.
Grid’s traceability code uses the Sawtooth blockchain and is based on the Sawtooth supply chain code, but the team ultimately wants broad compatibility. James Mitchell, a Principal Consultant at Bitwise, commented on a Grid chat forum: “In the spirit of other top-level projects like Explorer and Composer, we welcome contributions to support compatibility with the entire Hyperledger greenhouse.”
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