What is Hyperledger Fabric?
Hyperledger Fabric, an open source project from the Linux Foundation, is the modular blockchain framework and de facto standard for enterprise blockchain platforms. Intended as a foundation for developing enterprise-grade applications and industry solutions, the open, modular architecture uses plug-and-play components to accommodate a wide range of use cases.
With more than 120,000 contributing organizations and more than 15,000 engineer contributors working together, Hyperledger Fabric offers a unique approach to consensus that enables performance at scale while also preserving the data privacy enterprises demand.
How Hyperledger Fabric works
Hyperledger Fabric is an open, proven, enterprise-grade, distributed ledger platform. It has advanced privacy controls so only the data you want shared gets shared among the “permissioned” (known) network participants.
Smart contracts document the business processes you want to automate with self-executing terms between the parties written into lines of code. The code and the agreements contained therein exist across the distributed, decentralized blockchain network. Transactions are trackable and irreversible, creating trust between organizations. This enables businesses to make more informed decisions quicker — saving time, reducing costs, and reducing risks.
The benefits of Hyperledger Fabric
Permissioned network
Establish decentralized trust in a network of known participants rather than an open network of anonymous participants.
Confidential transactions
Expose only the data you want to share to the parties you want to share it with.
Pluggable architecture
Tailor the blockchain to industry needs with a pluggable architecture rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
Easy to get started
Program smart contracts in the languages your team works in today, instead of learning custom languages and architectures.
Why Hyperledger Fabric is the framework under a blockchain platform
IBM recommends businesses not build a production blockchain solution using just the free open source. IBM (and other vendors) offer commercial distributions that include tools and support.
The IBM Blockchain Platform is IBM’s commercial distribution of Hyperledger Fabric, which includes full 24x7x365 support of the open-source solution with service level agreements (SLAs). It comes with the most advanced set of productivity tools for building, governing and operating your blockchain solution.
Hyperledger Fabric is an open source blockchain for business
Innovators in a wide range of industries — finance, banking, healthcare, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology — are creating open, standardized, enterprise-grade blockchain frameworks and code bases using Hyperledger Fabric to produce tangible business results.
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Blockchain use cases
Making cross-border trade easier with blockchain
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Connecting growers and consumers
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Shipping and shopping at The Home Depot
See how blockchain provides real-time, shared and trusted information of goods throughout the shipping and receiving process.
First-of-a-kind blockchain platform transforms bank guarantee process
Learn how the process enables all parties to obtain and manage legally binding guarantees, and reduces issuance time down to one day.
Software transforms with multicloud blockchain solution
Explore the multicloud success story of Vertrax and Chateaux software.
Reopening venues with contactless blockchain digital ticketing
As it identifies new ways to host small-scale, outdoor, in-person performances, Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is using blockchain technology to provide secure, contactless digital ticketing.
Resources
Learn more about blockchain
Deepen your understanding of blockchain, how it works and its benefits for your business.
Blockchain security capabilities
Learn about the multiple ways blockchain can help secure your data, based on its inherent structure, the type of network you select, and the permissions you grant.
Smoothly integrate smart contracts and network management
Try the IBM Blockchain Platform Extension for VSCode. Discover, code, test, debug, package, deploy and publish smart contracts and applications within a single tool.
Advancing business blockchain adoption
Learn more about how the Hyperledger community is promoting global open source collaboration.
Blockchain’s role in the face of disruption
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Blockchain State of the Union
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Solutions
Blockchain healthcare and life sciences solutions
Tackle issues of trust, transparency and data integrity with blockchain-based networks and solutions.
Blockchain for supply chain solutions
Resolve issues faster, build trust and strengthen supply chain networks with IBM Blockchain.
Blockchain solutions for trade finance
Reinvent trade and trade finance with our network-convening expertise and the industry’s leading platform.
Blockchain for financial services
Build greater trust for all, and bring new transparency, simplicity and efficiency to every financial transaction.
Blockchain for government
Save budget with new automations, more securely share data, and discover insights from data already being gathered.
Blockchain in media and entertainment
Blockchain is transforming online ad buying, online ticketing, rights management and much more.