Hyperledger & Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Team To Enhance Blockchain Adoption

Hyperledger and The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance EEA, have teamed up to enhance mass adoption of blockchain technologies. The two have agreed to become Associate Members within each other’s organization.

EEA casts itself as a global standards watchdog focused on enhancing Ethereum adoption. Hyperledger, on the other hand, is an open source effort backed by Linux foundation. The organization seeks to enhance utilization of blockchain technologies in various industries. Hyperledger brings together global leaders in the areas of finance banking internet of things as well as technology and manufacturing,

By joining forces, the two will be able to bring together hundreds of members across various business sectors. The two also hope to put to rest the Ethereum vs. Hyperledger debate and focus on accelerating blockchain adoption.

Hyperledger’s Brian Behlendorf, expects the collaboration to result in new opportunities. In addition, developers across the divide should be able to participate in EEA Certification while pursuing solutions compliance. Leaders will also be able to interact with one another on various special interest groups.

“Great open standards depend upon great open source code, so this is a natural alliance for both organizations. Standards, 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,” said Mr. Behlendorf.

Hyperledger is not new to the Ethereum ecosystem. Last year it launched Ethereum Virtual Machine which acts as an apache licensed implementation. Early this year it went forth and integrated a transaction processor feature in EVM. The integration brought about smart contracts on Ethereum Mainnet.

By coming together as associate members, Ethereum developers under EEA umbrella will now be able to submit to their partner organization. Hyperledger project maintainers, on the other hand, will be able to work on de-facto interfaces.

The merger should also make it easy for various developers to work on various codes that match EEA specifications. Consequently, the EEA community will work on various standardization while collaborating on software implementations.

Founding member, David Treat, expects the partnership to help strengthen the Blockchain sector. Furthermore, blockchain technology continues to elicit strong interest not only from developers but as well as established companies. Governments all over the world are also taking a keen interest in the ledger technology given its already proven synergies.