Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community.
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Hyperledger in-depth: An hour with ConsenSys
Tune in for a technical AMA discussion with Lucas Saldanha of ConsenSys and Peter Somogyvri of Accenture covering how to use Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Cactus in the development of enterprise Ethereum projects.
The session will be on Wednesday, March 17, at 1:00pm PST. For more information and to register, go here.
Note: This is the second session in the “Introduction to Ethereum” series. To view the prior session introducing how Ethereum fits into the Hyperledger community, go here.
Blockchain Expo Global Virtual 2021
This year’s Blockchain Expo Global will be a free virtual event featuring top-level content and thought leadership discussions looking at the blockchain ecosystem. The conference is for the ambitious enterprise technology professional seeking to explore the latest innovations, implementations and strategies to drive businesses forward.
Over two days, March 17-18, industry experts will explore and debate the technological advancements across the digital ecosystem and beyond in a mix of live and on-demand sessions.
On March 18 at 9:55am GMT, Hyperledger’s Daniela Barbosa will follow a talk on “Promoting National Payment System Efficiency through Blockchain Technology” by the director general of the National Bank of Cambodia with a presentation on “How organizations like The Bank of Cambodia work with Hyperledger.” Many others from the Hyperledger community, including DTCC, Deutsche Telekom, Bank of England, IBM, we.trade, Swisscom and Soramitsu, will take to the stage during the event as well.
Get more information about Blockchain Expo Global Virtual 2021 here.
Free Training: Becoming a Hyperledger Aries Developer
Hyperledger Aries recently became the latest project to achieve Active status, a major milestone showing that Hyperledger’s technical leadership recognizes the maturity of the Aries community and project. To support the growth in Aries development, Linux Foundation Training provides a free training course for Self-Sovereign identity (SSI) application developers who need to build applications on top of Hyperledger Aries components—the area where they can have the most impact.
Get more details or register for the course here.
Review of Four Hyperledger Libraries- Aries, Quilt, Ursa, and Transact
Linux Foundation Training followed up its review of Hyperledger’s distributed ledger platforms and tools with an in-depth look at four libraries. Read the post here.
Virtual Meetups
See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.