Today at the Hyperledger Global Forum it was announced that IBM is open sourcing a large slice of additional Hyperledger Fabric code to increase adoption of the popular open source enterprise blockchain. The company was the original code contributor and continues to be a major maintainer of Hyperleder Fabric.
A significant number of blockchain applications use tokens, something that Fabric does not natively support, so a key open source contribution is the Fabric Token SDK. Additionally, it has open sourced the IBM Blockchain Platform Console, a previously licensed solution that makes it easier to manage a blockchain network.
Apart from contributing code to Hyperledger, there is a new IBM Hyperledger Fabric support offering for users that are not IBM Blockchain customers. In other words, open source Fabric users can buy support from IBM.
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