Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Announces Strategic Partnership With Hyperledger
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger today announce that we are formally joining each other’s organizations as Associate Members. This will enable more active and mutual cross-community collaboration through event participation, connecting with other members, and finding ways for our respective efforts to be complementary and compatible. The collaboration between our organizations will further accelerate adoption of blockchain technologies for business.
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance sponsors the development of specifications and standards for enterprise blockchain networks, with a focus on those aligned with the broader Ethereum ecosystem. Hyperledger fosters the development of open source software for establishing, managing, and connecting enterprise blockchain networks. Thus, our two organizations have similar objectives, with highly complementary approaches to achieving them.
Our two organizations have similar objectives, such as broadening and strengthening the community around and the adoption of enterprise blockchain technologies. What we hope to get across to the public is that anyone who ever put a “versus” between EEA and Hyperledger got it wrong; it’s now conclusively “EEA AND Hyperledger.”
This relationship will enable Hyperledger developers to write code that conforms to the EEA specification and certify them through EEA certification testing programs expected to launch in the second half of 2019. As members of each other’s organizations, both communities 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. Those could be done as lightweight efforts in Hyperledger Labs, or proposed as top-level projects to the Technical Steering Committee for approval to join the other 10 Hyperledger projects. Our cross-cutting working groups on identity, architecture, performance/scalability could also be leveraged. Both organizations host Meetups and events around the globe, adding to the opportunities for collaboration.
To read more: https://entethalliance.org/growing-enterprise-blockchain-ecosystem-open-standards-open-source-code/
