what was hyperledger burrow 
hyperledger burrow was a framework for executing smart contracts in permissioned blockchains it was originally incubated as part of hyperledger a community of open source projects and tools for commercial implementations of blockchain technology hyperledger burrow was designed to facilitate cross industry applications for smart contracts understanding hyperledger burrowfollowing the success of bitcoin many blockchain advocates recognized the potential of using distributed ledgers to record smart contracts self executing programs that can operate without human management however existing networks such as bitcoin or ethereum were too limited for business applications due to the high cost and latency of open blockchains in order to facilitate more scalable blockchains the linux foundation launched the hyperledger community in 2015 many industry leaders joined the initiative in order to develop enterprise grade blockchain tools including ibm intel and microsoft burrow was one of the projects under the hyperledger umbrella along with other enterprise oriented platforms such as hyperledger fabric hyperledger sawtooth and hyperledger iroha originally called erisdb the project was designed by monax to build ship and run blockchain based applications for business ecosystems 