Through Joint Associate Memberships, EEA and Hyperledger Will Collaborate to Meet Global Demand For Enterprise Blockchain<\/p>\n
NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Oct 1, 2018<\/b> \u2013The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)<\/a>, the global standards organization driving the adoption of Enterprise Ethereum, and Hyperledger<\/a>, The Linux Foundation open source collaborative effort advancing cross-industry blockchain technologies, today jointly announced they have become Associate Members, respectively, within each other\u2019s organization. The open-source, standards-based, cross-platform collaboration between the two organizations will contribute to accelerating mass adoption of blockchain technologies for business.<\/p>\n With hundreds of member companies combined, the EEA and Hyperledger communities represent a wide variety of business sectors from every region of the world.<\/p>\n Hyperledger Executive Director, Brian Behlendorf, and EEA Executive Director, Ron Resnick, have jointly authored a blog post (see Hyperledger\u2019s blog<\/a> or EEA\u2019s blog<\/a>) to announce this partnership.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a time of great opportunity,\u201d said Resnick. \u201cCollaborating through mutual associate membership provides more opportunities for both organizations to work more closely together. In addition, Hyperledger developers who join the EEA can participate in EEA Certification to ensure solution compliance for projects related to the Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification.\u201d<\/p>\n As members of each other\u2019s organizations, the leadership of both organizations will be able to collaborate across tens of Special Interest Groups, Working Groups, meetups and conferences globally, across hundreds of thousands of developers in both communities. EEA community members working on specifications and standards can turn to Hyperledger to collaborate on software implementations of those standards.<\/p>\n \u201cGreat open standards depend upon great open source code, so this is a natural alliance for both organizations,\u201d said Behlendorf. \u201cStandards, specifications and certification all help enterprise blockchain customers commit to implementations with confidence since they have better assurances of interoperability as well as multiple vendors of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n More About EEA and Hyperledger Work Underway<\/b><\/p>\n In 2017, Hyperledger launched the Hyperledger Burrow project, an Apache-licensed implementation of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) bytecode interpreter. Earlier this year, Hyperledger Sawtooth added support for the EVM as a transaction processor, bringing smart contracts developed for the Ethereum MainNet over to Sawtooth-based networks. That effort, dubbed \u201cSeth,\u201d is now in active use, and the developers anticipate submitting it for conformance testing to the EEA specification as soon as possible. Likewise, support for the EVM is now available in Hyperledger Fabric.<\/p>\n Another example of EEA and Hyperledger\u2019s collaboration is the EEA\u2019s Special Interest Group on Trusted Execution Environments, and a prototype implementation of those proposed standards, called \u201cPrivate Data Objects\u201d being built within Hyperledger Labs<\/a>. This project is a best practice example of internet-scale software development work, combining community-driven open standards and community-developed, production-quality open source reference implementation. The effort mirrors work such as the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and Apache working on the web\u2019s underlying protocol HTTP, or ECMA International and Mozilla working on JavaScript, a standardized, multi-platform language used by developers worldwide for web design.<\/p>\n Down the road, this mutually beneficial relationship will encourage Ethereum developers to consider submitting their enterprise projects to Hyperledger and Hyperledger project maintainers to consider taking de-facto interfaces appropriate for standardization to the appropriate EEA working groups. This relationship will also enable Hyperledger developers to write code that conforms to the EEA specification<\/a> and certify them through EEA certification testing programs expected to launch in the second half of 2019.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a founding member of both Hyperledger and EEA, we\u2019ve been proud to participate in the incredible growth of both communities. This is a logical next step that will strengthen the industry as a whole, expand each organization\u2019s reach and benefit from the collaboration across ecosystems, while supporting each organization\u2019s distinct mission,\u201d said David Treat, Managing Director at Accenture.<\/p>\n \u201cFor anyone who ever put a \u2018vs.\u2019 between Ethereum and Hyperledger, this collaboration shows it\u2019s now \u2018Ethereum AND Hyperledger,\u2019\u201d said Behlendorf. \u201cWe expect developers building Enterprise Ethereum-related technologies to be motivated to submit projects to Hyperledger, and we hope that project maintainers will consider taking de-facto interfaces that are suitable for standardization to the appropriate Special Interest Group at the EEA.\u201d<\/p>\n About The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance<\/b><\/p>\n The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) <\/a>is the industry\u2019s first global standards organization to deliver an open, standards-based architecture and specification to accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Ethereum. The EEA\u2019s world-class Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification and forth-coming testing and certification programs will ensure interoperability, multiple vendors of choice, and lower costs for its members \u2013 the world\u2019s largest enterprises and most innovative startups. For additional information about joining the EEA, please reach out to membership@entethalliance.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n About Hyperledger<\/b><\/p>\n Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology. The Linux Foundation hosts Hyperledger under the foundation. To learn more, visit: https:\/\/www.hyperledger.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n