JPMorgan Unveils 'Juno' Prototype at Hyperledger Blockchain Meeting
JPMorgan has unveiled what it calls a "distributed cryptoledger", presented during this week's meeting of the technical steering committee for the Linux Foundation-led open-source Hyperledger Project. The prototype, dubbed Juno, was presented by developer Will Marino on 3rd March. JPMorgan executive director David Voell said during the meeting that the proposal has been under development since September of last year, and that it is one of several concepts that he said the bank has been working on. Juno provides support for a smart contract language called 'Hopper' within a permissioned....
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JPMorgan’s distributed ledger project "Juno" was unveiled at the latest meeting of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project steering committee on March 3. The Project is exploring developing an open source blockchain. At the meeting, JPMorgan Executive Director David Voell revealed that the bank has been working on Juno since September. The prototype was presented by Will Martino, one of the developers of the project. Martino said the team had considered methods besides proof of work and proof of stake, and began Juno from a fork of the Haskell implementation of....
JPMorgan has lost two of its senior leaders on its blockchain project, Juno, as they embark on starting up their own blockchain startup, a report by Quartz revealed. Will Martino, the lead developer and Stuart Popejoy, the head of Juno started Kadena.io in June; however, the two departures signify the difficult task that financial institutions have at retaining tech talent as they embrace the blockchain technology. By utilizing the Juno project, Martino and Popejoy are hoping with their own blockchain startup to highlight the risk that companies will be taking by following the open source....
In spite of massive investment in financial technology, JPMorgan Chase still has a long way to go to meet its blockchain objectives. Abhijit Gupta, multinational bank’s head of science and technology in the Asia Pacific, told Chinese news service Sina that he was concerned about the improvements in the technology, “especially speed,” according to a translation of the article. Gupta added: "Over the past year and a half, the processing time of our system [improved by] 10 times, but in fact we need to achieve is 1,000 times. " The details come months after the bank first began....
Tech giant Intel has unveiled a new experimental distributed ledger platform dubbed "Sawtooth Lake". Code for proposed contribution to the open-source Hyperledger blockchain project was posted to GitHub today, along with an in-depth informational release that outlines the major planks of the initiative and offers a tutorial for implementing the code. The code was presented at today's Hyperledger technical steering committee meeting. Intel described Sawtooth Lake as "a highly modular platform for building, deploying and running distributed ledgers". According to the....
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