Major U.S. retailer Target is contributing to the Hyperledger Grid supply chain project. Target published a
blog post about a test blockchain project the company worked on to help to certify suppliers for its own-brand paper products. But as it was progressing research, it became aware of the Hyperledger Grid project for supply chain tools and decided to support it.
Hyperledger Grid is a new project launched late last year as an offshoot of the Hyperledger Sawtooth project. It was founded by agribusiness company Cargill, one of Target’s suppliers, as well as Intel and Bitwise the primary Sawtooth maintainers.
Target’s paper certification project was open sourced as ConsenSource and one of Target’s developers on that project Adeeb Ahmed is now contributing to Hyperledger Grid. At the moment he’s working on “Grid Product” a solution that enables participants to share product master data such as the product id (GTIN), the organization, product name and description. It’s designed to comply with GS1 standards.
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