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This New Ethereum Software Client Is Built With Enterprises in Mind

Published 10/30/2018, 08:59 AM
Updated 10/30/2018, 09:15 AM
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Enterprise ethereum may have just received a shot in the arm.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Pantheon is a suite of ethereum-based services built by PegaSys, a 50-strong engineering team at the ethereum design studio ConsenSys. Setting it apart from other enterprise versions of the second-largest blockchain, Pantheon has an Apache (NYSE:APA) 2.0 open-source software license, rather than the more restrictive general public license (GPL), and it uses Java as its base-level programming language.

Those are important features from an enterprise perspective. Using the Java programming language invites a huge coder community and lots of useful tools. Moreover, changing to the Apache 2.0 license allows businesses to own and monetize the intellectual property they create when building on top of ethereum.

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