what is hyperledger 
hyperledger is a global enterprise blockchain project that offers the necessary framework standards guidelines and tools to build open source blockchains and related applications for use across various industries hyperledger s projects include a variety of enterprise ready permissioned blockchain platforms and plug and play options using the available components under the hyperledger umbrella a business can apply various modular blockchain solutions and services to significantly improve the performance of their operations and the efficiency of their business processes hyperledger historyhyperledger is a global collaboration that includes leading businesses from the fields of finance banking internet of things iot supply chain management manufacturing and production and technology 1 they include big names like bosch ibm microsoft oracle deloitte hitachi american express jp morgan and visa in addition to a host of blockchain based startups like consensys 2the hyperledger project was created in december 2015 by the linux foundation which is based in san francisco california it started with 30 member firms and has grown to about 140 member companies today 32hyperledger was set up with the aim of accelerating industry wide collaboration to develop high performance and reliable blockchain and distributed ledger based technology frameworks it can be used across various industry sectors to enhance efficiency performance and transactions across multiple business processes 