Recommendations

Owned by Danno Ferrin
Last updated: Aug 11, 2022
2 min read

Philosophy

Elevator Pitch

Enterprise enabling software for Distributed Ledger Technology and Multi-Party Systems and the Applications, Frameworks, Tools, and Libraries that support and enable those systems.

Policy Change

Allow projects that are explicitly single platform.  These projects need to cover features and capabilities that should not be included in the core of the platform they are servicing.

  • A project needs to have large enough scope and community to exist separately from the core platform 

Examples:

  • Subject matter specific extensions
  • Optional Tooling and Services such as block explorers
  • Frameworks to build dApps on the platform

\[No consensus on this policy change\]

Projects and Themes

  • Operational support of specific DLT/MPS platforms
    • Alerting
    • Monitoring dashboards
    • Integration into enterprise data systems
    • Tools to set up chains
  • End user focused projects
    • Wallets
    • Secret storage/vaults
    • Credential storage
  • Cross chain interoperability
    • (But needs to provide distinct features from existing projects)
  • Application support and libraries
    • Tokens
      • Specifically novel uses such as confidential tokens, CBDC scale, etc.
    • NFTs
      • Specifically novel areas, not just profile picture collections.
      • White label marketplace?
      • Utility frameworks for NFTs?
    • UX libraries
    • Developer Tools
      • Compilers
      • Development Frameworks
  • Domain specific toolkits
    • Supply chain (Grid already occupies some space)
    • Provenance 
    • IP
    • Exchanges (DEX or CEX)
  • Low level DLT/MPS libraries
    • Common consensus libraries
  • "Hero" demo projects showcasing HL technologies
    • ex: metaverse demo with HL DLTs such as fabric

HLF is not interested in

  • Operating a specific network
    • Projects may support the network but the governance of such networks must be entirely separate from HLF in inception and operation.
    • Example: Ethereum Mainnet 
  • Hosting a specific application
    • HLF may support the software for a particular project, but it will hot host the front end instance of it.  Member companies should provide that service
    • Example: Block Explorers
  • Running and operating a formal standards process
    • Standards work may run in parallel to a project, but HLF is interested in the software implementation and community around the software, not the standards making process.
    • Projects may become de facto standards, but formal processes must run outside of HLF.
    • HLF invites projects that are implementations of formal standards processes.

Labs Projects

  • Solang
    • Solidity→WASM compiler.
    • Solana, substate, WASM
    • Applied for incubation in the past.  Rejected for not enough maintainers, now has 3 maintainers
    • Jim sees it as useful
    • Positive view of tech used (LLVM, Rust, etc.)
  • Perun
    • Confidential state channels across DLTs
    • "recursive lightning network" - bootstrap off of the trust of other people.
    • Ask for a TSC presentation (Tracy to take action on this)
  • Business Partner Agent
    • May become an Aries subproject - needs connection
  • Orion
    • Centralized key/value ledger
    • Did a HLF meetup
    • Working on decentralization, or for use cases where decentralization is not essential
  • Fabric (may not be top level, may be absorbed into fabric proper)
    • Fabric Operations Console
    • Fabric Operator
    • Looking to gauge interest and which one gets traction
    • Also, other K8s projects
  • Blockchain Carbon Accounting
  • Fabric Token SDK
    • (Works with Fabric and Orion)
  • ...

Labs exits may want to go to being integrated into an existing project instead of becoming an incubating project.

  • Example: Weaver/Cactus integration

Ways to encourage Labs projets to "Level Up"

  • TSC Presentation
  • Meetup Presentations
  • Direct invitation to incubate


Non-Labs Projects

  • Generalized Rollup Solution for multiple DLTs
    • Non-ZK aggregation (optimistic rollups)
    • ZK Rollup
    • ZK^2 Rollup (ZK proofs with built in privacy, i.e. only sender and receiver can read, with external constraints enforced)
    • Cairo (see Starkware)
  • Nightfall?
    • EY
  • Gnark
    • From Consensys
    • Complementary to Ursa
  • Possible Members?
    • Starkware
    • Polygon?

Elephant in the room

What's Hyperledger's public network story?  There's an opportunity and a threat.

  • Ethereum
  • CosmWasm (Cosmos, Terra, Internet Computer)
  • Solana
  • Polkadot