This will conclude our overview of industrial private blockchain projects. To recap, in the previous sections, we presented three leading initiatives for developing and promoting enterprise-grade blockchain technology for industrial use: R3, Hyperledger, and EEA. Each has its own community of members, developers, and other contributors, and they all have their own version of foundational blockchain technology serving as a basis for further ecosystem development, as shown in the following diagram:
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The premise, upon which Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, and other private permissioned blockchain projects build upon, is that enterprise-grade blockchain solutions will operate in a trusted environment. This is due to the nature of how businesses tend to operate in the real world with known and endorsed partners. This premise has implications on the architecture...