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HyperLedger is an open source collaborative effort between enterprise institutions and corporations to support the development of <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/technology" target="_blank">technology</a>, to date Hyperledger has <a href="https://www.hyperledger.org/members" target="_blank">over 250 members</a> including <em>Accenture, Deloitte, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, Intel, IBM, Moscow Exchange, SAP, Samsung SDS, Xiaomi, Cisco, and more</em>. HyperLedger’s goal is to form a consortium with the intention of supporting the development of enterprise-grade and cross-industry platforms to utilize open distributed ledger technology. Hyperledger can be thought of as an umbrella project that intends to supply the necessary framework, standards, and support necessary to build open sourced blockchains that become widely adopted.