Ethereum for Enterprise

Guides, articles, and tools for delivering both public and private Ethereum blockchains for enterprise.

Why Enterprise Ethereum?

Why should businesses care about Enterprise Ethereum?

New business models and value creation opportunities

Reduced cost of trust and coordination between business parties

Improved business network accountability and operational efficiency

Competitively future-proof your business

Compatibility with public mainnet or permissioned, private networks

For more in depth information, here are some related articles:

Enterprise Applications Live on Mainnet

Here are some of the enterprise applications that have been deployed to the public Ethereum Mainnet:

Payments

Brave Browser pays users for their attention to advertisements and users can pay publishers to support them, via the Basic Attention Token.

hCaptcha Bot prevention CAPTCHA system which pays web site operators for the work done by users to label data for machine learning. Now deployed by Cloudflare.

Finance

Santander Bank bond issuance and settlement

Societe Generale bond issuance

Cadence bond offering and tokenization for FAT Brands

Sila banking and ACH payments infrastructure-as-a-service

Tinlake receivables financing via tokenized real-world assets such as invoices, mortgages or streaming royalties

Notarization of Data

BBVA details of finalized loans are hashed and recorded on Mainnet

Splunk data integrity can be ensured by periodically writing hashes of indexed data to Mainnet

ANSA Italy's largest news agency fights fake news and enables readers to verify the origin of news stories by recording them on Mainnet

Supply Chain

CargoX bill of lading and document transfer provider

Morpheus.network supply chain automation platform which implements a hybrid of private chains with notarized data on the Ethereum Mainnet, and is in use by companies such as Canadian food, oil & gas distributor Federated Co-op Ltd. and Argentinian pet food provider Vitalcan

Minespider supply chain tracking

ShipChain public sidechain of ethereum and enterprise system for supply chain visibility and trust, especially for multimodal logistics

Follow Our Fibre viscose supply chain traceability

Credentials and Certifications

Utilities

GridPlus electricity payments

Organizations

Some collaborative efforts to make Ethereum enterprise friendly have been put together by different organizations:

EEA

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is a member-driven standards organization whose charter is to develop open, blockchain specifications that drive harmonization and interoperability for businesses and consumers worldwide. Our global community of members is made up of leaders, adopters, innovators, developers, and businesses who collaborate to create an open, decentralized web for the benefit of everyone.

Hyperledger

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology. The foundation has some projects in it that work with the Ethereum stack: Hyperledger Besu Hyperledger Burrow



Enterprise Focused Services

The following projects provide blockchain services for enterprises grade systems:

Blockapps implementation of the Enterprise Ethereum protocol, tooling and APIs that form the STRATO platform

Clearmatics protocols and peer-to-peer platform architecture, blockchain R&D company

PegaSys Plus offers the same features and functionalities as HF Besu, plus additional enterprise focused benefits

Quorum open source blockchain platform that combines the innovation of the public Ethereum community with enhancements to support enterprise needs

Provide infrastructure and APIs for Enterprise Web3 applications

Protocol and Infrastructure

Hyperledger Besu open-source Ethereum client developed under the Apache 2.0 license and written in Java

Hyperledger Burrow modular blockchain client with a permissioned smart contract interpreter partially developed to the specification of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

Infura scalable API access to the Ethereum and IPFS networks

Kaleido full-stack platform for building and running cross-cloud, hybrid enterprise ecosystems

Autonity protocol suite that implements p2p protocols and provides client software and infrastructure

Chainstack multi-cloud and multi-protocol Platform as a Service empowering businesses to rapidly build, deploy, and manage decentralized networks and services

Baseline an open source initiative that combines advances in cryptography, messaging, and blockchain to deliver secure and private business processes at low cost via the public Ethereum Mainnet

Quorum an Ethereum-based open source enterprise blockchain platform with advanced enterprise grade features enabling privacy, permissioning and performance

Official Quorum documentation

Enterprise Features

Public and private Ethereum networks might need specific features required by network participants. The following are some of those features:

Permissioning

Privacy

Security

Clef used to sign transactions and data and is meant as a replacement for geth’s account management

EthSigner A transaction signing application to be used with a web3 provider

Tooling

Alethio Ethereum Data Analytics Platform

Epirus A platform for developing, deploying and monitoring blockchain applications by Web3 Labs

Tenderly A Data Platform providing real-time analytics, alerting and monitoring with support for private networks.

Treum bringing transparency, traceability, and tradability to supply chains, using blockchain technology

Truffle Suite blockchain development suite (Truffle, Ganache, Drizzle)

Enterprise Developer Community