How Kaleido Created the First Blockchain Marketplace for Developers and Businesses

The importance of partner integrations for blockchain solutions and how Kaleido is developing a marketplace for developers and enterprises.

Consensys
ConsenSys Media
3 min readDec 4, 2019

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Marketplaces have taken the world by storm. The paradigm shift from massive firms to marketplaces enabled by individual networks was further catalyzed with the inception of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. However, even with the expansion of decentralized applications, crypto startups, and enterprises implementing blockchain technology — the emergence of a marketplace for enterprise blockchain solutions hasn’t taken off, until now.

This marketplace provides a form of composability also known as the “lego brick effect” that enables solutions to build on top of or integrate with one another. While public blockchains continue to strive to increase the composability of their platforms, Enterprise Ethereum blockchain networks have silently worked to create various specifications and components that ensure for a full-stack solution. Kaleido has built a unique marketplace that enables easy to set up Enterprise Ethereum blockchains that provide businesses optionality — which helps eliminate the need for specialized blockchain expertise — thereby reducing the costs to set up, deploy, and maintain a blockchain network.

“We’ve seen successful patterns of deployment as enterprise networks go into production and we’ve baked these best practices into the Kaleido Marketplace services, to help radically simplify the adoption of blockchain and eliminate some of the specialized blockchain expertise needed,” said Kaleido Founder and COO, Sophia Lopez.

How does the Kaleido Marketplace Work?

The Kaleido Marketplace offers enterprises the ability to construct their blockchain network quickly and seamlessly with customizable attributes. Businesses use the marketplace to build their blockchain solution from the following categories:

Find out how the Kaleido Marketplace works and what it can do for enterprises on ConsenSys.net →

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