Hyperledger, the open source umbrella group of blockchain projects announced today Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0 is now available. For the Hyperledger community, this is a big milestone as it marks the second blockchain framework that has reached production-ready status.

This Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0 release is the culmination of work from several companies intent on creating a distributed ledger designed for the enterprise.

Dan Middleton, Hyperledger Sawtooth Project Maintainer said:

“We would not have the rich features or deployment maturity today without the collaboration and contributions from these organizations (alphabetically): Active Ticketing, Amazon Web Services, Bitwise.io, Cloudsoft, Context Labs, Dot BC Media, Ericsson, Hacera, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Azure, Monax, Open Music Initiative, PokitDok, R3, T-Mobile, Wind River, and several independent engineers.”

With the launch of Sawtooth 1.0, the following new enterprise features are introduced:

On-chain governance – Utilize smart contracts to vote on blockchain configuration settings such as the allowed participants and smart contracts.

– Utilize smart contracts to vote on blockchain configuration settings such as the allowed participants and smart contracts. Advanced transaction execution engine – Process transactions in parallel to accelerate block creation and validation.

– Process transactions in parallel to accelerate block creation and validation. Support for Ethereum – Run solidity smart contracts and integrate with Ethereum tooling.

– Run solidity smart contracts and integrate with Ethereum tooling. Dynamic consensus – Upgrade or swap the blockchain consensus protocol on the fly as a network grows, enabling the integration of more scalable algorithms as they are available.

Middleton continued: