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Supporting Java 8 for your Corda and Corda Enterprise nodes Photo by Ed Schipu Corda is a very Java centric platform. As described in the original Corda Technical Whitepaper choosing to embed the Java Virtual Machine specification in the Corda specification was one of the first crucial design decisions which helped grow an active Corda developer ...

From design to reality: creating the governance for a blockchain network Last Tuesday, our team reached a milestone and created a new Foundation—a not-for-profit, based in the Netherlands. The Foundation’s purpose is to govern Corda Network, a blockchain network recently created by R3 — to make it easier to transact. We’re looking for transition board members for ...

The Birth of the Corda Network Foundation This week marked a significant step for Corda Network. We established a Foundation legal entity in Holland, which will take control over Corda Network from R3, and govern it for the long term. Fig.1 Stichting incorporation document I’d like to describe the beginning of the journey we’re on, ...

Could the future we want be built on Corda? ~ Or how will we all get paid in a decentralised economy? ~ On Corda, Commons-based peer production and a decentralised economy in the future TL;DR : if you’re a London dev looking to develop tools to facilitate a decentralised economy or simply want to get your hands dirty ...

Increasing network throughput with multiple Notaries Evening sunset by DasWortgewand Do you need a very high throughput Corda network? Has the network’s throughput levelled out? Have you already squeezed out all the performance you could from other areas? If your answers to these questions are “yes”, then I may have some useful information for you. I ...

Predictive analytics using Corda Distributed Ledger Technologies are not just here to stay, they are here to shape the future of Information Technology. There has been a significant leap in the evolution of DLT in the past 3 years in terms of its capabilities and 2018 was the year to see the first finalised products in ...

Corda in the Construction Industry Takeaways from UCL’s first Construction Blockchain Consortium hackathon “The Construction industries are entering a period of major disruption caused by new technologies such as Blockchain” — Philip Treleaven, Professor of Computing & Director of the Financial Computing Centre, University College London In September, University College London’s Construction Blockchain Consortium (CBC) kicked off ...

Corda turns 3 “birthday decor lot” by Lidya Nada on Unsplash Last week it was Corda’s third birthday, if we go by the date of the first git commits. Seems like a good excuse to write a rambling blog post! I was reminded of this by watching newly posted interviews we did with flagship Corda users at ...

Settlement Assets on Corda — Where to start We received a few questions after we published the cash issuer reference guide. The questions ranged from, “So I can just use this to settle on Corda now?” to “Are you going to issue a stablecoin on Corda?” It turns out that providing a settlement venue or cash-like asset on ...

What makes a perfect CorDapp? I’m presenting at the awesome Corda Code Club tonight and have been asked by the indefatigable Martin Jee to give a short talk on “What makes a good CorDapp”. It was a great question and I started making some notes. And then I figured: why not publish this rather than simply ...