ConsenSys startup PegaSys has been working on an Enterprise Ethereum offering, Pantheon, for some time with its first iteration released last year. Yesterday, Hyperledger
announced that Pantheon is now a new Hyperledger incubator project, Hyperledger Besu.
The news is of note for several reasons. Besu is a potentially serious competitor to
Quorum. Besu is designed for both private and public blockchains and is part of the ConsenSys path to nurture enterprises towards public blockchains, and Ethereum in particular. For developers, Besu is written in Java, the mainstream business language.
To date, the big three enterprise blockchain platforms have been Hyperledger Fabric, R3’s Corda, and Quorum, which is JP Morgan’s enterprise version of Ethereum. The backing of ConsenSys makes Besu a Quorum challenger.
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