NEC Corporation has joined the Hyperledger project as a Premier member of the project, while the head of NEC’s FinTech Business Development Office will join the Hyperledger Governing Board.
Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger executive director, said: “NEC joining as a Premier member further broadens Hyperledger’s global footprint and is great to see. As an innovative leader in efficient social and technical solutions, we’re excited for the value and expertise they can bring to Hyperledger to advance open blockchain services for many industries.”
The primary objective of the project is to create a common distributed ledger technology that enables organisations to build and run robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions.
Osamu Fujikawa, senior vice president, head of the business innovation unit, NEC, said: “NEC globally provides safe, secure and efficient social solutions for governments, governmental agencies, financial institutions and other organisations by combining its technology assets with broad systems integration expertise and customer assets. Regarding blockchain, NEC has been leading academic research on blockchain security since the beginning of Bitcoin. We believe blockchain is a transformative technology and are committed to advancing its adoption by contributing our expertise and knowledge to the Hyperledger community.”
In addition, Hyperledger’s two of the most anticipated projects have now been moved from incubation to active status. As this publication previously reported, the group’s Technical Steering Committee has granted the requests of the maintainers of the Sawtooth and Iroha projects to expand their operations from their initial contributors. Among these criteria are that there has been sufficient test coverage and the infrastructure in place is able to support expansion.
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