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# Enterprise Resources

<div class="featured">Guides, articles, and tools for delivering both public and private Ethereum blockchains for enterprise.</div>

## Why Enterprise Ethereum?
Why should businesses care about Enterprise Ethereum?
- New business models and value creation opportunities
- Reduced cost of trust and coordination between business parties
- Improved business network accountability and operational efficiency
- Competitively future-proof your business
- Compatibility with public mainnet or permissioned, private networks

For more in depth information, here are some related articles:

- [5 Reasons Why Enterprise Ethereum Is so Much More Than a Distributed Ledger Technology](https://media.consensys.net/5-reasons-why-enterprise-ethereum-is-so-much-more-than-a-distributed-ledger-technology-c9a89db82cb5)
- [Blockchain Use Cases and Applications by Industry](https://media.consensys.net/enterprise-ethereum-blockchain-use-cases-and-applications-by-industry-3914d1210049)
- [EY releases zero-knowledge proof blockchain transaction technology to the public domain to advance blockchain privacy standards](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/news/2019/04/ey-releases-zero-knowledge-proof-blockchain-transaction-technology-to-the-public-domain-to-advance-blockchain-privacy-standards)
- [Introduction to Quorum: Blockchain for the Financial Sector](https://medium.com/blockchain-at-berkeley/introduction-to-quorum-blockchain-for-the-financial-sector-58813f84e88c)


## Organizations

Some collaborative efforts to make Ethereum enterprise friendly have been put together by different organizations:

- [EEA](https://entethalliance.org/)
*The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is a member-driven standards organization whose charter is to develop open, blockchain specifications that drive harmonization and interoperability for businesses and consumers worldwide. Our global community of members is made up of leaders, adopters, innovators, developers, and businesses who collaborate to create an open, decentralized web for the benefit of everyone.*

- [Hyperledger Foundation](https://hyperledger.org)
*Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology.*
*The foundation has some projects in it that work with the Ethereum stack:*
- [Hyperledger Besu](https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/08/29/announcing-hyperledger-besu)
- [Hyperledger Burrow](https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/hyperledger-burrow)

## Enterprise Focused Services

The following projects provide blockchain services for enterprises grade systems:

- [Blockapps](https://blockapps.net/) *implementation of the Enterprise Ethereum protocol, tooling and APIs that form the STRATO platform*
- [Clearmatics](https://www.clearmatics.com/about) *protocols and peer-to-peer platform architecture, blockchain R&D company*
- [PegaSys Plus](https://pegasys.tech/enterprise/) *offers the same features and functionalities as HF Besu, plus additional enterprise focused benefits*
- [Quorum](https://www.goquorum.com/) *open source blockchain platform that combines the innovation of the public Ethereum community with enhancements to support enterprise needs*

## Protocol and Infrastructure

- [Hyperledger Besu](https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/besu) *open-source Ethereum client developed under the Apache 2.0 license and written in Java*
- [Hyperledger Burrow](https://kaleido.io/) *modular blockchain client with a permissioned smart contract interpreter partially developed to the specification of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)*
- [Infura](https://infura.io/) *scalable API access to the Ethereum and IPFS networks*
- [Kaleido](https://kaleido.io/) *full-stack platform for building and running cross-cloud, hybrid enterprise ecosystems*
- [Autonity](https://www.clearmatics.com/about/) *protocol suite that implements p2p protocols and provides client software and infrastructure*


## Enterprise Features

Public and private Ethereum networks might need specific features required by network participants. The following are some of those features:

### Permissioning

- [Pegasys Permissioning Contracts](https://github.com/PegaSysEng/permissioning-smart-contracts)
- [Quorum Permissioning solution](https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum/wiki/Security)

### Privacy

- [Ernst & Young's ‘Nightfall'](https://github.com/EYBlockchain/nightfall)
*More information [here](https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/ernst-and-young-rolls-out-'nightfall-to-enable-private-transactions-on)*
- [Pegasys' Orion](https://docs.pantheon.pegasys.tech/en/stable/Concepts/Privacy/Privacy-Overview/)
*More information [here](https://pegasys.tech/privacy-in-pantheon-how-it-works-and-why-your-enterprise-should-care/)*
- [Quorum's Tessera](https://docs.goquorum.com/en/latest/Privacy/Tessera/Tessera/) *More information [here](https://github.com/jpmorganchase/tessera/wiki/How-Tessera-works)*

### Security

- [Clef](https://geth.ethereum.org/clef/Overview) *used to sign transactions and data and is meant as a replacement for geth’s account management*
- [EthSigner](https://gitter.im/PegaSysEng/EthSigner) *A transaction signing application to be used with a web3 provider*

### Tooling

- [Alethio](https://aleth.io/) *Ethereum Data Analytics Platform*
- [Treum](https://treum.io/) *bringing transparency, traceability, and tradability to supply chains, using blockchain technology*
- [Truffle Suite](https://trufflesuite.com) *blockchain development suite (Truffle, Ganache, Drizzle)*

## Enterprise Developer Community

- [Alethio discord](https://discord.gg/d2t8NuU)
- [Infura Discourse](https://community.infura.io/)
- [Kaleido twitter](https://twitter.com/Kaleido_io)
- [Hyperledger Besu Rocketchat](https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/besu)
- [Hyperledger Burrow Rocketchat](https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/burrow)
- [Pantheon gitter](https://gitter.im/PegaSysEng/pantheon)
- [PegaSys twitter](https://twitter.com/Kaleido_io)
- [Quorum Slack channel](http://bit.ly/quorum-slack)
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- Want to learn how to run a node of your own? → [ethereum.org/developers](/developers/#clients-running-your-own-node)
- [Comprehensive list of all Ethereum clients](https://github.com/ConsenSys/ethereum-developer-tools-list#ethereum-clients)

## Enterprise Ethereum

Enterprise Ethereum refers to private, consortium, and hybrid implementations of the Ethereum codebase for business applications. Companies across the globe are already using Enterprise Ethereum to streamline financial markets, manage supply chains, and create new business models.

Read more about [Enterprise Ethereum](/enterprise).


## Improving Ethereum’s Scalability

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- [The Challenges of Building Ethereum Infrastructure](https://medium.com/@lopp/the-challenges-of-building-ethereum-infrastructure-87e443e47a4b) *Jan 8, 2018 - Jameson Lopp*
- [Parsimonious Answers to Difficult Questions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOkSg0BuSdw&feature=youtu.be) *(Video) March 10, 2019 - Rick Dudley*
- [There’s no good reason to trust blockchain technology](https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/) *Feb 6, 2019 - Bruce Schneier*