Enterprise platforms for BaaS
In this section, we will introduce a few enterprise platforms with BaaS offerings using three pointers. All these platforms provide a freemium version of the development platform to develop consortium blockchain-based applications.
IBM Hyperledger
Hyperledger was introduced in 2015 by the Linux foundation as an umbrella project to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. Hyperledger Fabric is one of the blockchain projects that provides permissioned consortium blockchains, where users on the network must enroll through a membership service provider. IBM (BlueMix) has partnered with Hyperledger to offer BaaS to its customers. It has also been leveraged with the cognitive capabilities of IBM Watson to provide IoT-based solutions.
Microsoft Azure EBaaS
Initially, Microsoft collaborated with ConsenSys to offer Ethereum blockchain-as-a-service (EBaaS) on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Then they announced project Bletchley to provide consortium, blockchain...