Today VMware Blockchain for Ethereum was unveiled in beta version with two early adopters, the Central Bank of Israel and Infosys.
Ethereum has been targeted at enterprises since the launch of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance in 2017. However, recently the competition reduced when ConsenSys acquired the enterprise blockchain Quorum from JP Morgan. ConsenSys also initiated the other main permissioned Ethereum offering, the open source Hyperledger Besu.
Apart from providing a trusted enterprise technology brand, VMware says its permissioned version of Ethereum is unique in four ways. The first relates to privacy, where it uses a combination of zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computation. We recently wrote about the Bank of Israel trialing a VMware privacy solution as part of its central bank digital currency research. And VMware published a related paper on UnTraceable Transactions (UTT) earlier this year.
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