Hyperledger is an open-source blockchain project started by the Linux Foundation. It includes several frameworks for developing blockchain applications for businesses, including Hyperledger Fabric, Burrow, Iroha, and Sawtooth. Hyperledger Fabric is most widely used as it allows for private, permissioned blockchains where participants are known and transactions can be kept confidential through channels and smart contracts. It has a modular, plug-and-play architecture and makes smart contract development accessible to programmers in common languages.

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What is Hyperledger

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Blockchain technology is not new anymore, and crypto currencies are going out of
pictures as well. The reason being many scams followed by legalizing Initial Coin
Offerings Token which after legalization are known as Securities token. But the
underlying technology has changed too. The public ledger known as blockchain
was a breakthrough in many industries, but it lacked features required by a single
enterprise whose information sharing cannot take place in a public ledger such as
Bit Coin or Ethereum based blockchain. Hence, the Linux Foundation with
collaboration with tech giant IBM reinvented this emerging technology known as
Hyperledger. Hyperledger is a private blockchain. It requires permission from all
the participants and information stored on blockchain cannot be accessed easily.
Hyperledger is an umbrella project as well which includes following programs
depending on various requirements:
Hyperledger Frameworks
1. Hyperledger Fabric
Hyperledger fabric is the foundation of Hyperledger projects. It is a blockchain
framework specifically designed to simplify complex enterprise resources and
actions. Hyperledger fabric provides a modular structure, allows other
components such as membership in the blockchain, consensus services which is
accessible as a plug-and-play. Here, smart contract comprises logic of the system
and are known as “chaincodes.”
2. Hyperledger Burrow
Hyperledger Burrow is a smart contract with permission and is based on
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Its primary function includes executing smart
contract terms on a permission virtual machine. This project is particularly useful
for internal transactions of a giant enterprise having numbers of subsidiaries to
support main business. Here, peers or nodes can distribute half-signed
transactions over the gossip protocol as a part of multi-signed transactions.

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3. Hyperledger Iroha
Hyperledger Iroha provides another type of consensus algorithm known as
Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) and is written in C++. It is a blockchain platform
that uses remote commands to execute complex accounts and digital assets
transition. Here, peers or nodes can distribute half-signed transactions over the
gossip protocol as a part of multi-signed transactions.
4. Hyperledger Sawtooth
Hyperledger Sawtooth is a platform for the distributed and decentralized ledger.
It is also can be customized according to requirements and helps build, deploy
and the distributed ledgers. Organizations who mainly want to have permanent,
private data storage can benefit from this program.
5. Hyperledger Indy
Hyperledger Indy is a decentralized identity library with a feature of modularity.
Based on requirements and purpose, a library can be built. Moreover, it provides
reusable components to create an independent identity stored in blockchain or
any other distributed ledger so they can communicate with other admin tools as
well.
Out of the above Hyperledger framework, the Hyperledger fabric is one to look
out for. Unlike traditional blockchain where the anonymity of participants and
being public ledger where anyone with a private key can participate, the
Hyperledger fabric is a network with permission and participants are known to
each other. This tailor-made blockchain is for enterprises that are highly sensitive
to sharing information. If anyone other than company’s stakeholders can access
information, then it can affect the future of the company. Hyperledger Fabric can
be understood more with the following unique features:

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Features of Hyperledger Fabric
• System with permission
Hyperledger Fabric is a decentralized network with permission, and involved
participants are known to each other. As enterprises’ transactions require more
than a trustless cryptocurrency transaction, the anonymity of peers is not
present. And a public network where any technical person can get access and
corrupt the organization system. Hyperledger fabric provides the feature of
customization when it comes to sharing block of information with other
participants.
• Confidential transactions
Despite being a network with known participants, transactions done and stored
are confidential. This confidentiality is kept through layers of private channels
known as smart contracts and chaincodes. Hyperledger fabric provides the
feature of customization when it comes to sharing block of information with other
participants.
• Pluggable architecture
It also has a plug-and-play feature which allows an organization to develop a
blockchain based on industry needs. It is opposite to traditional BitCoin based
blockchain where only one type of ledger process was possible.

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• Easy to Start
In Hyperledger Fabric, smart contract development is possible with any
programming language, on the contrary to traditional blockchain based smart
contracts where custom programming languages need to be learned by the
developers.
Application of Hyperledger fabric for a private enterprise blockchain is attracting
more industry players to join the race of blockchain development for business.
Also with Hyperledger, Hedera Hashgraph with its patents is likely to monopolize
the blockchain market in the near future.
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