HYPERLEDGER-FABRIC

Linux modular permissioned enterprise blockchain.

Definition

Fabric architecture components: Ordering Service (Raft consensus by default, Kafka legacy), Endorsing Peers (execute chaincode), Committing Peers (validate transactions), Channels (private sub-networks between organisations), MSP (Membership Service Provider, certificate authority), CouchDB or LevelDB state database. Versions: v1.0 (2017), v2.0 (2020, Lifecycle chaincode), v2.5 (2023). Adoption: ~120 production deployments, Walmart Food Tracker China, IBM Food Trust (Carrefour, Nestle), Maersk TradeLens shipping.

Origin

Hyperledger project launched by Linux Foundation December 2015 ; Fabric contributed by IBM and Digital Asset Holdings September 2016 ; v1.0 release 2017.

Example in context

Walmart China uses Hyperledger Fabric for pork traceability: each pork container is traced from farm to store via QR code linked to ledger ; reduces time-to-trace from 7 days to 2.2 seconds.

Related terms

• Hyperledger Besu — other Linux blockchain.