https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-enterprise-alliance-hyperledger-blockchain-consortiums-join-forces/
That is very interesting. Ethereum as a whole is showing that not everything needs to be a decentralized application. There’s also maybe a few hundred people in the world that can coherently write smart contracts in solidity on Ethereum. It’s also very hard to write smart contracts, which is why there haven’t been many successful ones written yet.
I have actually done some stuff with Hyperledger and Sawtooth. I’ve even deployed a 3 node Sawtooth private blockchain on Azure. The smart contracts are written primarily in JavaScript and their focus is on supply chain management. It’s being implemented in the fishing industry in the South Pacific to help combat poaching and fisherman using slave labor. The fish have RFID tags attached to them to correspond to their primary key on the blockchain that get scanned at multiple places. Once the fish are filleted a QR code replaces the RFID tag that customers can scan at the market.
I think standardizing may help bring more people and industries into it. Should also help expand the number of SDK’s for more languages than just JavaScript and Solidity which will include more devs. The interoperability will also help take some of the load off of Ethereum and allow private blockchains running Sawtooth and the other Hyperledger blockchain implementations to absorb unnecessary load.
As far as I know tho Joe Lubin still hasn’t agreed to terms with Jimmy Song the bet he made at a blockchain conference earlier this year. Maybe he finally will now that the platform just got more versatile.