JP Morgan’s Juno Developers Launch Private Blockchain Solution

JP Morgan’s Juno Developers Launch Private Blockchain Solution

JP Morgan's two key developers who were working on the bank’s private blockchain project Juno have started their own blockchain project. Will Martino and Stuart Popejoy have branched off to start Kadena.io as of June 2016. Will Martino was a lead engineer on the Haskell Desk at JP Morgan’s Emerging Technologies Group while Stuart Popejoy built the advanced technology team for JP Morgan's Emerging Technologies Group which focussed on solutions for banking. Kadena the blockchain is powered by ScalableBFT, the first consensus-BFT capable of scaling into thousands of nodes. The move by Will....


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