Yesterday enterprise blockchain alliance Hyperledger announced eight new members, including the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) and Visa. The news came just in advance of the member summit, which launches virtually today.
The addition of Visa is not a big surprise. Its B2B Connect payments solution leverages Hyperleger Fabric and it has previously done work on trusted execution environments (TEE), an area that overlaps with the Hyperledger Avalon project. The company has extensive interests in blockchain, apart from supporting debit cards for cryptocurrency platforms. It was an initial participant in Facebook’s Libra though it eventually withdrew. And it is a backer of Anchorage, the digital asset custody solution.
New member SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) may be slightly less obvious given its core settlement solution leverages R3’s Corda. However, R3 is also a Hyperlegder member. Here’s SDX’s take:
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