Hyperledger Fabric is an enterprise-grade permissioned distributed ledger framework for developing solutions and applications. Its modular and versatile design satisfies a broad range of industry use cases. It offers a unique approach to consensus that enables performance at scale while preserving privacy. High-performance, secure, permissioned blockchain network. Code written in Go, chaincode (smart contracts) in Go, Javascript, or Java, SDKs in Node.js, Java, Go, REST and Python. Hyperledger is a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledger technologies(DLTs) that will transform the way business transactions are conducted globally. Hyperledger consists of several projects. Hyperledger Fabric is being built in a pluggable modular framework.
Features
- Enterprise grade permissioned distributed ledger platform that offers modularity and versatility for a broad set of industry use cases
- Privacy and confidentiality of transactions and data pertaining to business transactions
- Designed for use in enterprise contexts, that delivers some key differentiating capabilities over other popular distributed ledger or blockchain platforms
- Hyperledger is governed by a diverse technical steering committee, and the Hyperledger Fabric project by a diverse set of maintainers from multiple organizations
- Fabric has a highly modular and configurable architecture, enabling innovation, versatility and optimization
- Fabric is the first distributed ledger platform to support smart contracts authored in general-purpose programming languages such as Java, Go and Node.js,