July 22, 2020 HACERA and the IWA Present a Blockchain Research Institute White Paper on the Token Taxonomy Don Tapscott, the president of The Blockchain Research Institute releases a fantastic White Paper on the Token Taxonomy, the InterWork Alliance – highlighting The Need for Open-Source Standards Around Digital Assets. The IWA is an ongoing, collaborative effort of enabling business people with domain-specific expertise to define and model how their industries best perform, regardless Read this post
June 18, 2020 Oracle and HACERA Team Up On Multi-Cloud Blockchain-Based MiPasa Data Platform To Strengthen COVID-19 Response By: Mark Rakhmilevich, Oracle, and Jonathan Levi, HACERA The spread of COVID-19 has caused a global health crisis, and researchers and healthcare professionals are searching for answers to combat the spread of the virus. Real-time data about the spread of the virus – and who it impacts – can help us slow its spread and Read this post
June 2, 2020 HACERA is proud to be an InterWork Alliance founding member and help to Standardize Token-Powered Ecosystems Worldwide Platform-Neutral Organization Empowers Businesses to Standardize the Interchange of Tokenized Value Across Use Cases and Networks Wakefield, Mass., – June 2, 2020 – The InterWork Alliance (IWA) today formally launched operations as a platform-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the standards frameworks needed to increase innovation across token-enabled ecosystems. Read this post
May 4, 2020 MiPasa by HACERA All around the world, irrespective of the COVID-19 infection rate or the severity of the lockdowns, one key ingredient that we are all missing from the life we lived just a few weeks ago is – certainty. Not only is it very difficult to live under such long lockdowns – Read this post
April 21, 2020 HACERA and Oracle Collaborate for DAML Support on Oracle Blockchain DAML is an expressive smart contract language designed with the needs of financial institutions in mind. It raises the productivity of smart contract developers and enables the automated execution and validation of contractual trading agreements. DAML was open sourced in April 2019, and shortly after, Digital Asset partners started integrating the Read this post
March 27, 2020 MiPasa — an Open Data Platform to Support COVID-19 Response MiPasa — an Open Data Platform to Support COVID-19 Response Read this post
March 10, 2020 Four Takeaways From Hyperledger Global Forum 2020 Phoenix, AZ What a great place for an early spring conference! The weather was perfect, the city was beautiful and the people were amazing. We were also able to take in a Suns game against the defending NBA champs, the Toronto Raptors. Concerns over the rapidly progressing coronavirus (COVID-19) may have slightly dampened the attendance Read this post
March 6, 2020 Tokens Can Radically Improve Your Blockchain Project, Legally! It may seem anathema to enterprise blockchain developers, but tokens are the best solution for transacting payments, storing value, assigning (oftentimes fractional) ownership of underlying assets, and securing private information from and for network participants. That’s a highly divisive statement in some corners of the ecosystem because “tokens” are widely vilified for causing the ICO-Mania (and subsequent bust) in 2017. Read this post
February 25, 2020 Notes from the Token Taxonomy Initiative’s First Public Workshop Last week at Microsoft’s Manhattan offices, the Token Taxonomy Initiative (TTI) hosted a packed house of blockchain professionals for its sold out first public Token Workshop. Attendees were taken through the TTI’s mission of developing “clear definition and scope of token concepts, including use cases, taxonomy, terminology, and specifications” and invited to participate in one Read this post
February 7, 2020 My Thoughts On The Recent Fabric 2.0 Release In late January of 2020, Hyperledger released Fabric 2.0 to the community at large. It was an incredible moment for me, personally, as I’ve spent much of the last few years deeply invested in the framework. Recently, the editors at Unbounded Network – a sister site dedicated to connecting all blockchain projects across all frameworks Read this post
June 27, 2019 Why HACERA, Intel, IBM, BitWise, Cargill are co-sponsoring Hyperledger Transact? HACERA is happy to announce that along with BitWise, Cargill, IBM and Intel, we are working on a library for executing transactions with smart contracts in a platform-agnostic way. Read this post
June 26, 2019 HACERA at Gartner’s (Evanta) CIO Executive Summit — NYC While everybody is talking about Frictionless Finance, many forgot about the required Frictionless "Platform On-boarding" experience. Read this post
June 18, 2019 HACERA brings DAML smart contracts to Multiple Blockchains and Clouds Digital Asset and HACERA partner to enable DAML for Hyperledger Fabric, enabling clients to deploy distributed applications to multiple clouds through the Unbounded Network. Read this post
December 3, 2018 Network of networks: Enabling the blockchain economy By now, most of you have heard about blockchain and its impact on business networks. As we speak, we see that it is disrupting industries and enhancing the way businesses work together. For example, a blockchain food trust solution is directly connecting participants through a permissioned, permanent and shared record of food origin details, processing Read this post
September 13, 2018 The yellow pages of blockchain has arrived: Networks are now visible to the world In the 1830s the first Yellow Pages emerged as an organized directory of businesses. This had a profound effect on commerce and is an often-overlooked key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. Simply put, the Yellow Pages put businesses on the map and made them known to the world. Without it, a business was hidden and Read this post
September 5, 2018 The Linux Foundation partnered with HACERA to create the world’s first vendor agnostic Hyperledger Fabric Fundamentals class WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR HYPERLEDGER FABRIC FUNDAMENTALS TRAINING COURSE IS LIVE AND IS SET TO EXPAND ACCESSIBILITY OF BLOCKCHAIN EDUCATION SAN FRANCISCO, September 5, 2018 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced enrollment is now open for the new LFD271 – Hyperledger Fabric Fundamentals Read this post
July 25, 2018 HACERA Combines Enterprise-Grade Security, Privacy and Interoperability Capabilities to Fuel the Next Generation of Blockchains “It was very clear that collaborating and contributing to various blockchain ecosystems was the best way to accelerate our value creation. The first years had bitter roots, but sweeter fruits. With so many moving parts in this space — optionality is key!” — Jonathan Levi Read this post
April 26, 2018 The Dutchess Project: A Tale of True Interoperability Between Multiple Blockchains Ten project teams took home awards from the Consensus 2017: Building Blocks Hackathon. Among them was Dutchess, a chess game built with four blockchain technologies by Jonathan Levi, Sergey Klimenko, Elan Perah and Michael Bogdanov from the HACERA team. This project beautifully illustrates how different blockchains can handle isolated responsibilities while still working together within a larger system. Read this post
April 20, 2018 Blockchain — The New Black. What about Enterprise Security? If blockchain, the distributed ledger (DLT) underlying bitcoin, is the new black, it is time to ask: is it secure? Read this post
February 8, 2018 Should you “bank on blockchain”? HACERA’s Jonathan Levi addresses Cayman Alternative Investment Summit and evaluates the technology from an investor’s perspective... Read this post
July 11, 2017 Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 is Released! Today, we are pleased to announce Hyperledger Fabric 1.0.0 is now available! Read this post
May 22, 2017 How the HACERA Team Won Two Awards at Consensus 2017 Building Blocks Hackathon HACERA Team Wins Two Awards at Consensus 2017 Building Blocks Hackathon with Dutchess Project Illustrating Interoperability Between Multiple Blockchains Read this post
September 26, 2016 HACERA presents Decentralized RBAC for regulated environments Our CEO, Jonathan Levi, is presenting HACERA – the world’s first Decentralized Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system at SIBOS 2016 We have exhibited at SIBOS 2016, the annual conference, exhibition and networking event organized by SWIFT for the financial industry. Only weeks after leaving IBM Research, our CEO Jonathan Levi flew from Ethereum’s DevCon 2 in Read this post