The BlocWatch Blog

The BlocWatch team will be pretty busy in Q1 with 5 conferences planned in the US, Canada, and Europe. Someone from the BlocWatch team will be speaking at each event so it's a great chance to learn about some helpful tips to manage and monitor your blockchain network. If you plan on attending any of the events below please send us a quick note so we can meet up! 

Institutions require comprehensive monitoring to fulfill operational, security, and compliance mandates. Failures and compromises in production systems can easily cause millions in losses. As the below comparison shows, both Hyperledger Explorer and Quorum Cakeshop are open source tools that offer basic blockchain monitoring. BlocWatch, however, offers a far broader and deeper solution that has been tailored to enterprise monitoring requirements.

If it is critical that your blockchain network is running 24/7 we strongly recommend that you consider using the BlocWatch platform.

R3 recently launched Corda Enterprise 4.3, which paves the way for faster time to value, simplifies deployment and node management and further enhances the resilience of Corda networks.

1. Watch this 3-minute video to learn about the multiple Hyperledger projects, including distributed ledger frameworks, smart contract engines, client libraries, graphical interfaces, utility libraries, and sample applications and then watch the Hyperledger individual project explainer.
2. Resource Center: Access Webinars, Videos, Publications (Whitepapers), Blockchain Showcase, Training, Tutorials and More!
3. Learn about real-world Hyperledger use cases.

BlocWatch recently spoke at ELEV8CON in Las Vegas December 8-11. The ELEV8 team sat down with Aaron Klein, Co-Founder & CEO of BlocWatch to discuss monitoring and auditing private and public blockchains, auditing blockchains with sensitive information, and more.  Read the full interview below.

BlocWatch is proud to announce becoming a part of the growing community of global Hyperledger enterprise blockchain members. Some key supporting members include IBM, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Accenture, American Express, FedEx, and Oracle. We believe that working with companies like Hyperledger will aide in the overall adoption of blockchain technologies. The importance of collaboration among companies in the Blockchain space can not be emphasized enough if we wish to continue to see an upward trend of in-production application use cases.

In the past few months, the blockchain space has seen the adoption of platforms across various industries increase. One of the most surprising cases of adoption was the partnership between Microsoft and JPMorgan to create an Ethereum based network called Quorum. Quorum provides the Ethereum functionality with enhancements to support enterprise needs. Since all the actors on the network are known entities, you no longer need to reward your “miners” with Eth Gas or utilize proof-of-work algorithms. As a result, Quorum users see a significant increase in security and speed when validating new transactions to the network.

The BlocWatch team will be speaking and exhibiting next week at the Blockchain Expo North America conference in Santa Clara (booth 715). Please stop by to visit the team to discuss ways BlocWatch can help you monitor, analyze, and secure your blockchain network.

Hyperledger Sawtooth, an enterprise blockchain platform designed for building distributed ledger applications and networks, has recently released V1.2. The new release brings forth support for iOS and Android development. Similar to countless other blockchain initiatives, the Sawtooth project continues to grow and show major potential for use cases today across several industries. 

You’ve successfully set up your Blockchain network on some platform (Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum, Corda, Quorum, etc…) and made it past your proof of concept and pre-production stages. While Blockchain is inherently secure as an immutable (can’t be altered) data structure, it still requires keeping an eye on the users, algorithms, and incoming data interacting on your chain.