Today Hyperledger
announced its 14th project, focused on treating smart contracts as a component that can be added to different blockchains such as Fabric or Sawtooth. Simplistically, smart contracts are the brains in a blockchain used to run advanced functionality. After all, smart contracts are network-enabled programs. The distributed ledger is responsible for participants on the network agreeing to store the same thing and then storing it, often in blocks which are chained.
As blockchains mature, we’re seeing more mix and match between the underlying distributed ledgers and smart contracting languages. One example is the recent integration of Digital Asset’s
DAML smart contracting language with several blockchain platforms, including both Sawtooth and Fabric.
Why?
One of the drivers behind the creation of Transact was the desire to incorporate WebAssembly smart contracts in both Hyperledger Sawtooth and Fabric. Sawtooth already does this with Sabre.
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