Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, announced on Monday the general availability of Hyperledger Iroha 1.0, which is the fourth active Hyperledger project to reach 1.0, following Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth and Hyperledger Indy.
According to Hyperledger, Iroha is a distributed ledger project that aims to provide a development environment where C++ and mobile application developers can contribute to Hyperledger. New Hyperledger Iroha 1.0 features include:
- YAC Consensus: A consensus protocol that ensures the safety of the ledger, even if some nodes are faulty or cannot be trusted. The protocol scales linearly in the peer network size.
- Fully Operational Multisignature: An option for transactions when your application needs multiple signatures for transaction settlement.
- Updated client libraries: Support for writing applications on many different platforms from mobile to mainframe using many different programming languages such as Java (compatible with Android, Scala etc.), JS, Python, and iOS.
- Windows support (experimental): Hyperledger Iroha now natively runs on Windows, as well as in Linux and MacOS environments.
While sharing more details about the project, Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger, stated:
“It’s extremely gratifying to see another one of Hyperledger’s active projects hit the 1.0 milestone. This is a huge testament to the strong collaboration of our growing community. I look forward to seeing development efforts around Hyperledger Iroha continue to grow and more and more productions systems powered by the framework later this year.”
Hyperledger added it aims to create distributed ledger technology that enables organizations to build and run robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions. The consortium now has more than 270 members with steady growth since its inception, spanning various industries including finance, healthcare, the Internet of Things, credit card services, supply chain, and aeronautics, among several others.