Officially unveiled on December 17, 2015, Hyperledger is a new collaboration between the Linux Foundation, IBM, Digital Asset Holdings and R3, as well as a number of other key stakeholders from technology and finance. It’s clear that from a platform perspective, these players are pretty late to the game. The Bitcoin ecosystem is already a huge draw for developers, and Ethereum too has had a large head start in attracting development talent. The draw of these large names, as well as a large donated codebase from IBM, R3 and Digital Asset Holdings, will be enough to fund a new large ecosystem of blockchain technologists.
