Hyperledger (Hyperledger Foundation)
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort to create blockchain technologies hosted by The Linux Foundation since 2016. It is a software development in building blockchain frameworks and platforms, including in finance, banking and Internet of Things.
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