Hyperledger fabric: a distributed operating system for permissioned blockchains

@article{Androulaki2018HyperledgerFA,
  title={Hyperledger fabric: a distributed operating system for permissioned blockchains},
  author={Elli Androulaki and Artem Barger and Vita Bortnikov and Christian Cachin and Konstantinos Christidis and Angelo De Caro and David Enyeart and Christopher Ferris and Gennady Laventman and Yacov Manevich and Srinivasan Muralidharan and Chet Murthy and Binh Nguyen and Manish Sethi and Gari Singh and Keith A. Smith and Alessandro Sorniotti and Chrysoula Stathakopoulou and Marko Vukolic and Sharon Weed Cocco and Jason Yellick},
  journal={Proceedings of the Thirteenth EuroSys Conference},
  year={2018}
}
Fabric is a modular and extensible open-source system for deploying and operating permissioned blockchains and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by the Linux Foundation (www.hyperledger.org. [] Key Result We show that Fabric achieves end-to-end throughput of more than 3500 transactions per second in certain popular deployment configurations, with sub-second latency, scaling well to over 100 peers.
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