Apache Foundation Founder Named Hyperledger Executive Director

May 19, 2016By rightstech

There’s a new man in charge of the Hyperledger Project, a group of more that 30 companies working together to build an open standard for distributed ledgers across industries.

Announced today, the founder of of the Apache Software Foundation, Brian Behlendorf, joins the open-source project as its first executive director and a batch of new companies joined.

Source: Apache Foundation Founder Named Hyperledger Executive Director – CoinDesk

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