Microsoft Bletchley Blockchain Project Enters Next Phase
Microsoft unveiled a new version of its consortium blockchain software offering at ethereum's annual developer conference in Shanghai today. Released as part of the update is its first "Quickstart Template", a tool designed to make it easier for Project Bletchley users to spin up a consortium using a private version of the ethereum blockchain. The template, Microsoft representative said, is likely to be the first of many that automate the process using different blockchain projects. But while the latest advancements to Bletchley may not sound like an overhaul, Microsoft Azure's....
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During Blockchain Week in Shanghai, tech giant Microsoft revealed its roadmap for the Bletchley Blockchain Project. The announcement was introduced by Marley Gray, the program manager of Azure’s blockchain engineering team. Microsoft’s Bletchley and Cryptlet Roadmap. Project Bletchley wants to start harnessing the power of consortium-based blockchains.....
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) unveiled today Project Bletchley, an initiative to increase and bring new Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) solutions. The company will provide Azure Infrastructure to Consortium blockchains. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) continues to deliver key innovations and solutions for businesses and developers alike. The company claims it has been working side-by-side with businesses and partners to build and deliver blockchain technology to enterprises, governments, and the general population. The company introduced Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) in November of last year. Powered by....
Since launching its Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) last November, Microsoft has worked with partners to understand core industry scenarios, and to develop the technologies to bring blockchain to enterprises, governments, and individuals. Project Bletchley is Microsoft’s vision for an open, modular blockchain powered by Azure, according to Marley Gray, director of blockchain business development and strategy at Microsoft, in an Azure blog. That vision, articulated in a white paper on Github, includes new elements the company believes to be key to enterprise blockchain architecture.....
If Microsoft Azure's CTO is right, R3CEV may have just been the beginning. Mark Russinovich envisions a world where every industry is involved in a blockchain consortium. In fact, since the network effect of a blockchain is only amplified by the number of participants, he thinks this future will prove inevitable as companies seek efficiency in numbers. And there's evidence so far to suggest that Russinovich is right. Since blockchain industry groups first began to pop up last year with the formation of financial consortium R3CEV, the rate those efforts being announced has only increased.....
Microsoft today unveiled a new project designed to make it easier for businesses across a wide range of industries to build consortiums that better take advantage of blockchain technology. Since a distributed ledger technology is only as powerful as the number people or companies that use it, Microsoft intends this new suite of tools to help build those networks. To date, a number of blockchain consortiums have been formed to test the technology, with the most notable including banking consortium R3CEV, the Post-Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL) and Dubai's Global Blockchain Council....