{"id":10295,"date":"2023-02-10T00:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:24:05","slug":"what-is-hyperledger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger","title":{"rendered":"What is Hyperledger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Alternar tabla de contenidos\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#what_is_hyperledger_and_how_does_it_work\" >What is Hyperledger and how does it work?\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#hyperledger_objectives\" >Hyperledger Objectives<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#hyperledger_projects\" >Hyperledger projects<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#hyperledger-besu\" >Hyperledger-Besu<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#hyperledger-burrow\" >Hyperledger-Burrow<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#hyperledger-fabric\" >Hyperledger-Fabric<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#hyperledger-indy\" >Hyperledger-Indy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#hyperledger-iroha\" >Hyperledger-Iroha<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-hyperledger\/#hyperledger-sawtooth\" >Hyperledger-Sawtooth<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Tiempo de lectura:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutos<\/span><\/span><p>Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) have represented a profound change for financial institutions. Hyperledger has made a major contribution to development thanks to its open-source governance structure\u00a0<strong>aimed at helping technology companies create applications based on blockchain technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today we will show you in depth what Hyperledger is, how its structure works and we will make a quick overview of its most outstanding projects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col small-12 large-12\">\n<div class=\"col-inner\">\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what_is_hyperledger_and_how_does_it_work\"><\/span><strong>What is Hyperledger and how does it work?\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p>How it is defined on its official website: \u201cHyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technologies across industries. It is a global collaboration, organized by The Linux Foundation, that includes leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chain, manufacturing and technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>The Hyperledger project was created in December 2015 by the San Francisco, California-based Linux Foundation\u00a0<\/b>to help advance blockchain for enterprises by forming a consortium of companies. In its early days it started with 30 members.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperledger currently<strong>\u00a0includes<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>more than 200 leading companies<\/strong>\u00a0such as\u00a0<strong>Bosch, IBM, Samsung, Microsoft, Hitachi, American Express, JP Morgan and Visa,<\/strong>\u00a0as well as a host of blockchain-based startups such as Blockforce and ConsenSys.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperledger\u2019s philosophy is based on\u00a0<strong>the creation of multiple private blockchains with separate markets, customized for each business<\/strong>, given their uniqueness. That is, the goal is not to force (as Ethereum does, for example) developers to create applications around generalized protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The Hyperledger project began with testing interactions between applications and secure blockchain networks.<\/p>\n<p>During several tests, the developers involved in the project realized that in blockchain networks, where it is necessary to validate transactions and execute consensus at the same time, there is a big scalability problem.\u00a0<strong>There are transactions that need confidentiality and privacy<\/strong>\u00a0that cannot be executed on public blockchain.<\/p>\n<p><i>For example, let\u2019s imagine that a customer A in Spain wants to buy online a bottle of good wine from a merchant B in France and that merchant B wants to give him a special discount for being a trusted customer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>To buy such a product requires many third parties to complete the transaction, who probably have to verify various aspects of the product such as: quality verification, logistical verification, payment verification and others. But these third parties do not need to know about the confidential deal between customer A and merchant B as seller B almost certainly sells to more customers and markets at standard rates.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Then, t<strong>hanks to Hyperledger, in a public blockchain network, every ledger on the network will be updated on the deal<\/strong>\u00a0as miners will have to validate to add transactions to the blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, using the components available in Hyperledger, a company can apply various modular blockchain solutions and services to improve the efficiency of its business processes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col small-12 large-12\">\n<div class=\"col-inner text-center\">\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"hyperledger_objectives\"><\/span>Hyperledger Objectives<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p>Given the growing popularity of blockchain technology, many companies wanted to start working with this technology and many of them, defined as \u2018forward-looking\u2019 companies, understood that by pooling their resources, they would have been able to achieve a higher degree of innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the main goal of Hyperledger has been\u00a0<strong>to gather the resources of all participating companies to make\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-blockchain-and-how-does-it-work\/\">blockchain technology<\/a>\u00a0more widely accepted<\/strong>\u00a0and become industrial grade technology.<\/p>\n<p>This is the general objective. But, behind the creation of Hyperledger there are other reasons that we list below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Create distributed, open source, enterprise-level accounting frameworks and codebases to support business transactions<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Provide a neutral, open, community-driven infrastructure backed by technical and commercial governance.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Build technical communities to develop shared accounting and blockchain POCs, use cases, field paths and implementations.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Educate the public about the market opportunity for blockchain technology.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Promote your community of communities by adopting a toolset approach with many platforms and frameworks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperledger.github.io\/#:~:text=Goals,by%20technical%20and%20business%20governance\">Hyperledger.github.io<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On its website Hyperledger explains that:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHyperledger does not back Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. But the platform is enchanted by blockchain technology. Since the Web itself \u201chas not promised a broader and more fundamental technology than blockchain technology.\u201d Blockchain has the potential to \u201cbuild a new generation of transactional applications that establish trust, accountability and transparency at their core, while streamlining business processes and legal constraints.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"hyperledger_projects\"><\/span>Hyperledger projects<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col small-12 large-12\">\n<div class=\"col-inner\">\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p>Hyperledger promotes a wide range of blockchain technologies. It currently has six very novel and popular projects:<\/p>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"row-1037057305\" class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col small-12 large-12\">\n<div class=\"col-inner text-center\">\n<div id=\"image_541639909\" class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\">\n<div class=\"img-inner dark\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HyperLedger_projects.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HyperLedger_projects.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HyperLedger_projects-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HyperLedger_projects-768x386.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Proyectos Hyperledger\" width=\"771\" height=\"388\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HyperLedger_projects.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HyperLedger_projects-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HyperLedger_projects-768x386.jpg 768w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HyperLedger_projects.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p>Image source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyperledger.org\/use\">Hyperledger.org<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"hyperledger-besu\"><\/span><b>Hyperledger-Besu<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It is an Ethereum client designed to be enterprise friendly for permissioned public and private network use cases. Hyperledger Besu includes several consensus algorithms including PoW and PoA (IBFT, IBFT 2.0, Etherhash and Clique).<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"hyperledger-burrow\"><\/span><b>Hyperledger-Burrow<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It is a unique full binary blockchain distribution focused on simplicity, speed and developer ergonomics. It runs smart contract code on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and WASM and uses BFT consensus via the Tendermint algorithm.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"hyperledger-fabric\"><\/span><b>Hyperledger-Fabric<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>This project is led by IBM. It is a plug and play implementation of blockchain technology designed for the development of applications or solutions with a modular architecture, based on blockchain for enterprise use.<\/p>\n<p>It offers a unique consensus approach that enables large-scale performance while preserving privacy.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"hyperledger-indy\"><\/span><b>Hyperledger-Indy<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Hyperledger Indy provides reusable tools, libraries and components to provide digital identities rooted in blockchain or other distributed ledgers to be interoperable across administrative domains, applications and any other silos. Indy is interoperable with other blockchains or can be used independently to drive identity decentralization.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"hyperledger-iroha\"><\/span><b>Hyperledger-Iroha<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Launched in May 2019, and hosted by the Linux Foundation, it is a blockchain platform designed to be easily integrated into various commercial uses that require distributed accounting technology. For example, the platform can be used to help businesses and governments with identity management.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"hyperledger-sawtooth\"><\/span><b>Hyperledger-Sawtooth<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Developed by the Linux Foundation in collaboration with IBM, Intel and SAP, Sawtooth aims to keep distributed ledgers and make smart contracts much more secure and suitable for businesses. It is a blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperledger Sawtooth offers a modular and flexible architecture that separates the core system from the application domain and\u00a0<strong>supports a variety of consensus algorithms<\/strong>, including Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) and Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET).<\/p>\n<p><b>These 6 projects<\/b>\u00a0under the Hyperledger umbrella follow the design methodology that supports\u00a0<strong>a modular and extensible approach, interoperability and security features.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is very important to remember that these projects are independent of a particular token or cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p>Hyperledger currently\u00a0<strong>has more than 100 members<\/strong>\u00a0that include a wide list of well-known industry leaders. Among them we find IT companies such as IBM, Fujitsu, SAP, Huawei, Nokia, Intel and Samsung, mobility technology giants such as Airbus and Daimler, financial institutions such as American Express, J.P. Morgan, BBVA, BNP Paribas, as well as Blockchain startups such as Blockstream, Netki, Lykke and Consensys.<\/p>\n<p>While most other blockchain projects focus on cryptocurrencies and tokens this has made Hyperledger the backbone of industrial and high scale applications of blockchain technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Tiempo de lectura:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutos<\/span><\/span>Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) have represented a profound change for financial institutions. Hyperledger has made a major contribution to development thanks to its open-source governance structure\u00a0aimed at helping technology companies create applications based on blockchain technology. Today we will show you in depth what Hyperledger is, how its structure works and we will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24674,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/24674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}