Hyperledger closes 2016 with eight new members

Crazy Review : At the end of 2016, eight companies, including a subsidiary of non-profit venture capital company Factom, CA Technologies, Hashed Health, Koscom, LedgerDomain, Lykke, Sovrin Foundation and Swiss telecommunications company Swisscom, joined the open source commercial blockchain alliance Hyperledger, bringing their one-year efforts to a perfect end.

Translation: Flora

Open source business blockchain consortium Hyperledger has announced eight new member companies.

The new members come from all walks of life, from venture-backed startups to state-owned telecom companies.

The addition of these different companies caps a year of hard work for the non-profit Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger, which grew from zero to a 100-member consortium in 2016.

Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger, said in a statement:

“2016 has been a year of exploration, research, development, and prototyping, and we look forward to seeing case studies of blockchain technology being used in production environments in 2017.”

The latest members include subsidiaries of non-profit venture capital firm Factom, CA Technologies, Hashed Health, Koscom, LedgerDomain, Lykke, and the Sovrin Foundation.

CoinDesk reported last week that Swiss telecom company Swisscom had joined the group.

Also last week, a group of 12 Hyperledger members participated in the first cross-ocean transaction of a virtual asset on the Fabric blockchain platform, even if it was just a virtual pinball game.