Built for disruptors across your enterprise
Technical leaders
In today’s complex IT world, the flexibility to deploy and run across multiple environments is vital. The IBM Blockchain Platform allows you to build, operate, govern and grow blockchain solutions across any computing environment through Red Hat® OpenShift®.
Business leaders
Smarter food supplies. Streamlined finance processes. New transparency and trust. The IBM Blockchain Platform is transforming businesses, industries — and the world. If you can imagine a new way of working with other organizations, we can help you achieve it.
Developers
The free IBM Blockchain Platform VS Code Extension for Hyperledger Fabric helps you get started quickly in developing, testing, debugging and packaging smart contracts and client applications locally, speeding your path to deployment.
Transform blockchain ideas into real results at the IBM Garage™
Work side-by-side with our top designers, developers and architects as you build with the speed of a startup, then deploy and scale in production like an enterprise.
What makes the IBM Blockchain Platform unique?
The best of Hyperledger Fabric made better
The IBM Blockchain Platform harnesses open source Hyperledger Fabric and wraps it in tools and support that dramatically accelerate how your enterprise builds, operates, governs and grows a blockchain network.
Develop and innovate at speed and scale
The free IBM Blockchain Platform VS Code Extension for Hyperledger Fabric helps you get started quickly in developing, testing, debugging and packaging smart contracts and client applications locally, speeding your path to deployment.
Deploy in any computing environment
The IBM Blockchain Platform, optimized for Red Hat® OpenShift®, makes it easy to deploy blockchain components in any computing environment – hybrid cloud, multicloud and on-prem – for both you and your network partners.
100% Hyperledger Fabric compatible artifacts
Every component created with the IBM Blockchain Platform generates 100% Hyperledger Fabric compatible artifacts. You can take your network to any other Fabric-based offering with minimal fidelity loss and no vendor lock-in.
Enterprise blockchain that’s open and available anywhere
From ease-of-use to ownership of everything you create, explore the latest version of the leading Hyperledger Fabric platform for hybrid cloud, multicloud and on-prem environments.
BUILD
• Leverage our advanced Visual Studio (VS) Code extension for smooth integration between smart contract development and network management
• Transition seamlessly from development to test to production in a single environment with simplified DevOps
• Write smart contracts in JavaScript, Java, and Go languages
OPERATE & GOVERN
• Manage all network components in one place, no matter where they are deployed
• No vendor lock-in: maintain complete control of your identities, ledger and smart contracts
• Deploy only the blockchain components you need (Peer, Ordering Service, Certificate Authority)
GROW
• Start small, then pay as you grow for what you use – no upfront investment and upgrade easily through Kubernetes
• Connect a single peer to multiple industry networks with ease
• Connect to nodes running in any environment (on-premises, public, hybrid clouds)
SEE IT WORK
Take a guided tour of the leading open source blockchain for business platform, led by our technical experts. It’s your complete overview of everything needed to get started, including an in-depth look at our VS Code Extension.
Design matters when you’re disrupting business
The IBM Blockchain Platform has been named winner of the 2019 Red Dot: Brands and Communication Design Award. This annual award recognizes leading design experiences and innovation from brands around the world.
Unleash the full power of the IBM Blockchain Platform at the IBM Garage
Find out how clients around the world are working with leading minds and proven methodologies at the IBM Garage™ to bring blockchain for business ideas to life.
Discover why working side-by-side with our top designers, developers and architects is one of the smartest ways to build with the speed of a startup, then deploy and scale in production like an enterprise.
The IBM Blockchain Platform is reshaping industries
The race to reinvent the world is on. What disruption will you create?
Food supply
IBM Food Trust™ is the only blockchain network of its kind connecting growers processors, distributors, and retailers through a permissioned, permanent, and shared record of food system data.
Media and advertising
Online advertising fraud costs companies billions of dollars annually. Learn how Mediaocean is revolutionizing the media and advertising industry with the IBM Blockchain Platform and IBM Garage.
Trade finance
Thirteen European banks have collaborated on we.trade, a blockchain network that’s transforming trade finance — and even trade itself — for small- and medium-sized buyers and sellers.
The choice of visionaries
Learn how business and technical leaders have achieved blockchain success in these in-depth interviews.
What’s your potential ROI with IBM Blockchain?
Discover the positive impact Forrester says IBM Blockchain can have on your business. This report includes:
• Blockchain technology and market overview
• Financial model framework
• Projecting new revenue and savings
• Expanded economic impact and analysis of costs
• Sample organization calculation and financial summary
Resources to grow your business ideas
Preview “Blockchain for Business”
Get an extended preview of this practical guide to understand and evaluate blockchain technology’s potential to transform your organization’s business processes and models.
What every technical leader needs to know for 2020
Top experts discuss how the IBM Blockchain Platform is now optimized for Red Hat® OpenShift®, giving you unparalleled deployment flexibility across the computing environments of your choice.
The Founder’s Handbook
Blockchain brings organizations together. Learn how other network founders have successfully launched their collaborations.
The Unbounded Registry
Register, look up, join and transact across a variety of blockchain solutions built to interoperate with all of today’s popular distributed ledger technologies.
What will we solve together?
¹ Hyperledger Fabric is an open source project of the Linux Foundation