Weekend Update

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) Green Shoots Series

The Green Shoots Series, a lead up to the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF), is a collection of online discussions to share practical insights and authentic stories from leading speakers globally. The Green Shoots Series focuses on key issues and topics affecting financial services, technology and public policy. 

The next session, which will be on October 6 at 10:00 AM Singapore Standard Time, is part of a series on Digital Currency and will focus on “Standards and Interoperability in the Journey to Ubiquitous Adoption.” The discussion will be moderated by Andrew McCormack of the BIS Innovation Hub in Singapore will include the Linux Foundation’s Brian Behlendorf and Sheila Warren, Head of Data, Blockchain and Digital Assets for the World Economic Forum. 

Go here for more details.

New Hyperledger FireFly project 

The newest project, Hyperledger FireFly, became official this week. FireFly is a multi-party system for enterprise data flows, meaning it provides a purpose-built system upon which to build decentralized blockchain applications. Contributed by Kaleido to Hyperledger Labs in June 2021, FireFly has an active and growing open source community and is looking for more contributors to get involved in the project.

Find out more here.

Video introduction to using Hyperledger Cactus 

Check out this quick video to learn how to create production-ready DLT applications that interact with multiple ledgers with Hyperledger Cactus.

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, October 7, at 9:00 UTC / 18:00 JST: Hyperledger Tokyo hosts “10月7日オンライン開催 Hyperledger Tokyo Meetup” (Japanese)
• Thursday, October 7, at 22:00 UTC / 19:00 BRT: Hyperledger Brazil Chapter hosts “Projeto Diário de Bordo Digital da Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil” (Portuguese)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

The 2nd BSN Global Partnership Conference 

The 2nd BSN Global Partnership Conference, co-hosted by BSN International and Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), is a three-day hybrid event happening in Hangzhou, China, with different sections covering BSN China, BSN International, and Blockchain Investment. The global audience can join the event virtually on September 27th starting at 6 pm China Standard Time (UTC+8) to watch keynote addresses and panel discussions by top industry leaders. A keynote by the Linux Foundation’s Brian Behlendorf will be one of the sessions available to the worldwide audience.

For more information and to register, go here.

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with Palm NFT Studio 

In this session, Dan Heyman of Palm NFT Studio will introduce Palm Side Chain with an overview of technical specifications and architecture and detailed explanation how Hyperledger Besu is currently being used in this new network. 

Tune on Tuesday, September 28, at 9:00 AM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Blockchain Expo North America

The virtual Blockchain Expo North America, taking place September 28-29, will feature top-level content and thought leadership discussions focused on the blockchain ecosystem. The event is aimed at the ambitious enterprise technology professional, seeking to explore the latest innovations, implementations and strategies to drive businesses forward. Content on September 28 will focus on blockchain in the enterprise. Sessions that day will include “Technology utopianism & the state of blockchain in enterprise,” a discussion that will include the Linux Foundation’s Brian Behlendorf, and a Women in TechEx Panel, moderated by Hyperledger’s Daniela Barbosa, on “Blockchain for sustainability and social innovation.”

Get more details here.

Open Source Summit

Each year, Open Source Summit brings together developers, architects and other technologists – as well as open source community and industry leaders – to collaborate, share information, learn about the latest technologies and gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions. This year’s event will take place September 27-30 in Seattle, Washington, and online. Sessions include the September 29 talk “Health Credentials, Travel, Climate Change, Financial Inclusion and More: Digital Identity Gets Real” by the Linux Foundation’s Brian Behlendorf and Accenture’s Christine Leong.

For more information and to register, go here.

Hyperledger Grid 0.2 Release Party

Hyperledger Grid is a platform for building supply chain solutions that include distributed ledger components. It provides reference implementations of supply-chain-centric items – data types, data models, smart contracts, and more – that are anchored on existing open standards and industry best practices. To mark the milestone of the 0.2 release of Grid, the community will hold a celebration on Thursday, September 30, at 10:30 AM EDT.

Go here for details.

 2021 Open Source Jobs Report

Linux Foundation Training, in partnership with edX and Linux Foundation Research, has completed its 9th annual Open Source Jobs Report. The report reveals the latest trends in open source careers, which skills are in demand, what motivates open source professionals, how employers can attract and retain top talent, how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted hiring and workplaces, and diversity issues in the industry.

Go here for more information or to download the report.

Virtual Meetups 

• Tuesday, September 28, at 21:00 UTC / 15:00 MDT: Hyperledger Denver hosts “Trusted Data Ecosystems: Finding The Value In Identity”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with Mindtree—Making disruptive technologies the silver bullet for airlines in new normal

As both the commercial airlines and cargo industries emerge from the pandemic, they are looking at innovative disruptive technologies to streamline supply chains, optimise operations, drive collaboration and ensure safe, seamless flying experiences for passengers globally. In this webinar, industry experts will discuss how passenger airlines, air cargo, and airports can successfully leverage the power of new age technologies (like blockchain and more) to overcome the challenges they had to face in the wake of the pandemic, and revitalise growth. 

Tune on Wednesday, September 22, at 7:00 AM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

TDeFi BizThon Business Hackathon

Have an idea for how blockchain can be used in media, finance or sustainability use cases? Consider entering the TDeFi BizThon Business Hackathon. Held in association with Future Blockchain Summit and GITEX, the BizThon is open to everyone, be it developers, entrepreneurs, project managers and other technologies, and offers a number of prizes across several tracks. The deadline for signing up is September 20.

Go here for details.

Get Involved with Hyperledger Cactus 

You are invited to get involved in helping advance Hyperledger Cactus, an incubation status project that aims to be a pluggable enterprise-grade framework to transact on multiple distributed ledgers without introducing another competing blockchain. The community leaders have spotlighted a number of ways to get started. Learn more here.

Virtual Meetups 

• Tuesday, September 28, at 21:00 UTC / 15:00 MDT: Hyperledger Denver hosts “Trusted Data Ecosystems: Finding The Value In Identity”
• Thursday, October 14, at 15:00 UTC / 17:00 CEST: Hyperledger Budapest hosts “Blockchain Scaling & Interoperability with Perun Framework”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with Oracle

As tokenization use cases in the enterprise and beyond have become more real, the lack of built-in tokens in Hyperledger Fabric has become an issue. In this discussion on “Enabling Tokenization Options on Hyperledger Fabric,” Mark Rakhmilevich of Oracle will explain a new approach to implementing fungible and non-fungible tokens on Fabric based on IWA’s Token Taxonomy Framework (TTF) model of token types and behaviors. He will demo generating Fungible Token (FT) chaincode and using it in an application based on the recently released version of Blockchain App Builder. This talk will also cover how this accelerates the use of FTs and NFTs in a broad range of use cases and Oracle’s plans to make use of tokens easy and quick on Hyperledger Fabric.

Tune on Wednesday, September 8, at 12:00 PM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Paris Blockchain Week Sumit Webinar: Building a Best-in-Class Blockchain Production Application       

The Paris Blockchain Week Summit will host a discussion about best practices and key considerations in building production blockchain systems, including architecture, on-chain and off-chain strategy, data privacy, compliance and ecosystem governance. Panelists for the session include Andei Semenov from CONA Services, Karen Ottoni from Hyperledger, Antoine Le Feuvre from SUEZ Smart Solutions and Arka Roychowdhury from Cognizant.

To learn more or to register for the webinar, which is Thursday, Sept 9, at 8:00 AM PDT, go here.

Virtual Meetups 

• Wednesday, September 8, at 9:00 UTC / 18:00 JST: Hyperledger Tokyo hosts “9月8日オンライン開催 Hyperledger Tokyo Meetup” (Japanese)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger’s Brian Behlendorf on DisrupTV

Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf was a recent guest on DisrupTV, a web series focused on leadership, innovation and disruption. Catch his episode here.

Free Training Classes

It’s back to school season, so now is a great time to boost your blockchain skills with one (or more) of the five free and self-paced Hyperledger classes from Linux Foundation Training. Go here for details and to enroll.

Hyperledger Mentorship Project Reports

This week five mentees from the Hyperledger Mentorship Program wrapped up their projects and presented their work. To find out more about these projects and see the final reports and presentations, follow these links:

• Blueprint-like interface for Hyperledger Iroha Special Instructions (Zoe Krucky) 
• Cactus-samples – Business Logic Plugins for Hyperledger Cactus (Tzu-Shen Wang) 
• Global Scouting of DLT / Blockchain Educational Opportunities (Amit Chaudhari) 
• Hyperledger Burrow and Hyperledger Iroha extend existing Solidity VM integration (Ayush Jalan)
• Hyperledger Iroha and Hyperledger Cactus Integration (Han Xu)

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, September 2, at 12:30 UTC / 18:00 IST: Hyperledger India Chapter hosts “Getting started building apps on FireFly and contributing to Open Source”
• Thursday, September 2, at 22:00 UTC / 19:00 BRT: Hyperledger Brazil Chapter hosts “Tecnologia Blockchain aplicada à segurança alimentar” (Portuguese)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger Media and Entertainment Special Interest Group Guest Presentation: Blockchain Studies at HBCUs

Join the Media and Entertainment SIG for a guest presentation on Blockchain Studies at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The speaker will be Dr. Ali Emdad, Associate Dean of the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Blockchain and Financial Technology (The FinTech Center) at Morgan State University. 

For more information on the online meeting, which is Tuesday, August 24, at 9:00 AM PDT, go here.

Virtual Blockchain Employ Job Fair

Attend this job fair to hear ConsenSys, Hyperledger, Accenture, and others discuss open positions. Join breakout tables to sit down and discuss opportunities with the top companies actively looking to hire folks for their blockchain teams. Indian Blockchain Institute (IBI), a Hyperledger Training Partner, will also be on and to talk about educational opportunities that will put you onto the blockchain career path.

For more details on the job fair, which is talking place on Tuesday, August 24, at 6:30 PM EDT, go here.

Now in Japanese: Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer and Certified Hyperledger Fabric Administrator Exams

Linux Foundation Training is now offering both the Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer (CHFD) and Certified Hyperledger Fabric Administrator (CHFA) exams with Japanese content and proctors.

Go here for more on CHFD-JP and here for CHFA-JP.

Linux Foundation Training Back to School Sale

Buy any of the Linux Foundations certification exams and get the companion training course for free. Use code “Free21,” and get a $575 bundle of certification and training for $375.The offer is good through August 24.

Go here for more detail.

Virtual Meetups 

• Tuesday, August 24, at 22:30 UTC / 18:30 EDT: Hyperledger Princeton hosts “Blockchain Employ Job Fair”
• Thursday, August 26, at 10:00 UTC / 19:00 KST: Hyperledger Korea hosts “Hyperledger Meetup Korea #30 – 블록체인 지갑의 동작 방식 및 표준” (Korean) 
• Thursday, August 26, at 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST: Hyperledger Budapest hosts “Hyperledger Fabric and Monitoring”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with Privici

Students need to get back to interacting with each other and faculty face to face in order to maximize their education experience; similarly, employees need to interact with each other from time to time in person to generate new ideas, form relationships and build the next best thing together. The post pandemic world will have the effects of the virus with us for a while, so how do we protect each other in a way that also respects our privacy? 

In this session on “Verifiable Credentials – How to bring students and employees back to school and work while respecting their privacy in the covid era,” Mahesh Balan, CEO of Privici, will discuss how verifiable credentials can be used securely check the status of a vaccination, antibody test or virus test without having to track this in a central database. He will cover ways this can be achieved and the practical limitations and issues of trying to bring this technology to the fore for Covid mitigation. He will also demo examples, talk about the technology and standards and what the world can expect in the immediate future as well as the wide applicability of this technology as Self-Sovereign Identity becomes more prevalent in multiple domains.

Tune on Wednesday, August 18, at 10:00 AM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Fall Open Source mentorship projects (paid)

The Linux Foundation is accepting applications for a range of paid mentorship projects for the fall. See the line-up here.

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, August 19, at 22:00 UTC / 19:00 BRT: Hyperledger Brazil Chapter hosts “Boas Práticas para Composição de Frameworks Hyperledger Fabric em Redes Blockchain” (Portuguese)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group Guest Presentation: To Net Zero with Verifiable Credentials

Join the Climate Action and Accounting SIG for a guest presentation by Andreas Kind and Maximilian Weinhold and Florian Ansgar Jaeger from Siemens on “To Net Zero with Verifiable Credentials.” Verifiable credentials, as promoted by the W3C as well as the Hyperledger projects Indy and Aries, can give individuals control of their identity attributes in a privacy-preserving manner. Estainium, an association of manufacturers and trusted technical inspection organizations, extends the use of verifiable credentials for sharing product-level information in supply chains, specifically for letting suppliers cryptographically prove product carbon footprints (PCFs) down-stream while preserving common supply chain confidentiality assumptions. The aim of this PCF sharing infrastructure is to drive industrial production towards net zero carbon emission.

For more information on the meeting, which is Tuesday, August 10, at 8:00 AM PDT, go here.

The Giving Chain

The Giving Chain, a project under the Hyperledger Summer Mentorship Program, collects donations in local communities and transfers gifts to those in need. Decentralized tracking of donations can revolutionize charity giving, adding trust, accountability and dignity to the process. 

To get involved, join the next meeting on Friday, August 13, at 12:00 pm EDT. More details are here.

The Giving Chain is also part of the LFX Crowdfunding effort. Find out more here. 

Virtual Meetups 

• Wednesday, August 11, at 22:00 UTC / 17:00 CDT: Hyperledger Latinoamerica hosts “Haciendo que las cadenas de suministro sean seguras con blockchain”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger Trade Finance Special Interest Group Guest Presentation: International Trade Future Self – Digital Twin

Join the Trade Finance SIG for a guest presentation by Brendan McEnroe, CTO of Trade Window, covering Digital Twin, DID, interoperability and the challenge for eBoL.

For more information on the meeting, which is Tuesday, August 3, at 8:30 AM BST, go here.

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with KrypC

The first Hyperledger Fabric major release since v1.0, Fabric v2.0 delivers important new features and changes for users and operators alike, including support for new application and privacy patterns, enhanced governance around smart contracts, and new options for operating nodes. Hyperledger Fabric v2.0 introduces decentralized governance for smart contracts, with a new process for installing a chaincode on your peers and starting it on a channel. The new Fabric chaincode lifecycle allows multiple organizations to come to agreement on the parameters of a chaincode, such as the chaincode endorsement policy, before it can be used to interact with the ledger. 

In this discussion on “Best practices and major obstacles for upgrading to Hyperledger Fabric Version 2.2,” Chris Smith of KrypC will share his team’s experience updating their customer’s Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure to version 2.2 as well as some of the obstacles their customers faced and how KrypC navigated these obstacles to ensure a successful update.

Tune on Wednesday, August 4, at 9:00 AM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Video Replay: An Introduction to Minifabric, a Hyperledger Lab

The Minifabric demo by IBM’s Tong Li from a recent Hyperledger Media and Entertainment SIG meeting is now on YouTube. The video walks through how to easily setup a HyperledgerFabric blockchain network, install and upgrade chaincode, invoke transactions, inspect your ledger and change channel configurations. Watch it here.

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, August 5, at 17:00 UTC / 11:00 MDT: Hyperledger Denver hosts “Global Scouting of DLT / Blockchain Educational Opportunities”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.