Blockchain technology offers many different benefits to enterprise developers — but there’s no cross-industry open standard for how to develop it.

That makes it difficult for vendors and CIO customers to place their bets and begin building it into their technology architecture. Hyperledger, a Linux Foundation project to produce a standard open-source blockchain, wants to solve that problem, and it just got an executive director, Brian Behlendorf, to help it on its way. He founded the Apache Software Foundation, was previously on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and managed tech VC firm Mithril Capital Management.

The blockchain community is still young and fragmented. Many organizations are trying to build things on top of the original bitcoin blockchain and extend its functionality, capitalizing on the fact that the bitcoin network is secured by its massive base of users.

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