These days we hear a lot about multinational corporations entering the blockchain space via partnerships with each other. Less known are the blockchain companies, who do not have ties to multinationals, partnering with each other to push blockchain technology.
Last week, Eris Industries selected Ledger as its hardware security partner in the pursuit of bettering the security of critical workflows – that is, back-office processes, a target of many blockchain projects – and protect its blockchain-based infrastructure.
Ledger, a blockchain security provider, offers hardware solutions for consumers and enterprises. Ledger, founded in 2015, first released a best-selling smart card based hardware wallet and entered the B2B market with TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) and HSM (Hardware Security Module) solutions.
Eris is building the leading blockchain application platform for industrial uses of blockchain and smart contract technology.
“We work on problems of network level business process automation,” CEO Casey Kuhlman told CCN . “Traditional data and process management tooling has automated many internal business processes within industry. However, business processes which need to operate on a network level (i.e., outside of the context of a single enterprises’ data silos) benefit from being operated using a distributed application paradigm. Eris greatly reduces the friction required in building, testing, and operating such applications.” Eris views its partnership with Ledger as bringing a missing piece to their project: a hardened key management solution. It has never been our intention to become a security company. “Rather we have been actively working to extend our platform in such a way that it would be highly interoperable with numerous other software and hardware companies from blockchain client builders to key management and security systems.The partnership not only validates our architectural strategy, but it also dramatically enhances the eris platform as more of our users begin to harden their smart contract […]
