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Imran Bashir
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Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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Projects under Hyperledger

There are four categories of projects under Hyperledger. Under each category, there are multiple projects. The categories are:

  • Distributed ledgers
  • Libraries
  • Tools
  • Domain-specific

Currently, there are six distributed ledger projects under the Hyperledger umbrella: Fabric, Sawtooth, Iroha, Indy, Besu, and Burrow. Under libraries, there are the Aries, Transact, Quilt, and Ursa projects. The tools category of Hyperledger includes projects such as Avalon, Cello, Caliper, and Explorer. There are also domain-specific projects such as Hyperledger Grid and Hyperledger Labs.

The following diagram visualizes the categorization of Hyperledger projects:

Figure 17.1: Projects under Hyperledger

A brief introduction to all of these projects follows.

Distributed ledgers

Distributed ledgers, as we covered in Chapter 1, Blockchain 101, are a broad category of distributed databases that are decentralized, shared...

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Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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