How Eris and Ledger work together to provide better blockchain technology

These days we often hear about multinational corporations collaborating with each other to enter the blockchain field, but it is rare to hear about blockchain companies collaborating to develop blockchain technology without the participation of multinational companies.

Eris has recently announced that Ledger will become their hardware security partner to improve the security of the company’s critical workflows and protect the security of its blockchain infrastructure.

Ledger is a blockchain security provider that provides hardware solutions for consumers and enterprises. Founded in 2015, Ledger launched a very popular smart card-based hardware wallet and entered the B2B market with its Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and Hardware Security Module (HSM) solutions.

Eris is currently building a leading industrial-grade blockchain application platform by using blockchain and smart contract technology.

Eris CEO Casey Kuhlman told CCN:

“We are solving the problem of automating business processes at the network level. Traditional data and application management tools have automated many internal business processes. However, business processes that run at the network level will benefit from distributed applications. Eris has significantly reduced the friction in building, testing and running distributed applications.”

Casey Kuhlman, CEO of Eris

Eris believes that the collaboration with Ledger will fill the gaps in their project and they will gain a reliable key management solution.

Kathy says:

“We have been actively working together to expand our platform in a collaborative way that allows us to interoperate with other software and hardware companies, from blockchain client vendors to key management and security systems companies. This partnership not only validates our architectural strategy, but also significantly enhances the Eris platform as more users choose to try our platform to power smart contract applications.”

Ledger CEO Eric Larchevêque said of their partnership:

“Eris is a blockchain solutions provider that can deploy turnkey systems for clients. Whether public or permissioned, blockchain technology has always relied on cryptographic signatures for transactions, and the compromise of private keys can cause massive damage. Therefore trusted hardware is an important part of the architecture. Ledger has developed a full-scale enterprise solution based on hardware security modules.”

Ledger CEO Eric Larchevêque

Blockchain Solutions

According to Eris CEO Casey Kuhlman, by integrating Ledger’s technology into their server nodes, Eris will be able to offer its customers a secure token solution.

Ledger recently introduced the Blockchain Open Ledger Operating System (BOLOS) technology, which is the foundation of Ledger’s security solutions.

Larchevêque says:

“Thanks to BOLOS, you only need to write once and execute, and you can run it on a TEE, HSM or one of our new generation devices. Therefore, with a simple TEE-based smartphone, Eris has been able to immediately start testing our trusted hardware security features before deploying on HSMs. Ledger is focused on hardware wallets and enterprise projects, including IoT.”

Eris' open source platform is an enterprise-level blockchain application development platform and the only blockchain application platform that can be used on both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services Marketplace.

Casey Kuhlman, CEO of Eris, expressed his excitement about the partnership with Ledger:

“Ledger is at the forefront of blockchain security and private key management tools. The security provided by Ledger’s BOLOS platform fills a security gap in the blockchain ecosystem. Therefore, we are very excited to be working with Ledger. Together, we will provide users with the most flexible and user-friendly application development tools.”

Bitcoin Wallet

Ledger's first product, the Ledger Nano, is a smart card-based Bitcoin wallet that is available in more than 100 countries.

Eris is promoting a general-purpose blockchain platform that allows individuals and businesses to use blockchain and smart contracts to create secure, low-cost applications that can run anywhere. It also studies the use of distributed technology to automate data-driven processes and business relationships.

In addition, Eris does not regard Bitcoin as a value transfer network, but rather a "shared software database."

Eris COO Preston Byrne emphasized that in the Eris blockchain, there is only a blockchain, no digital currency. This is different from Bitcoin. Therefore, unlike Bitcoin, which emphasizes value transfer applications, Eris hopes to revolutionize data management and security and regards customers as their own developers.

Eris COO Preston Byrne

Eris, which has demonstrated a way to decentralize the Bitcoin Foundation, has now turned its focus to smart contracts, such as Ethereum smart contracts.

Original article: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/eris-ledger-blockchain/
By Justin O'Connell
Compiled by: Kyle
Source (translation): Babbitt Information (http://www.8btc.com/eris-ledger-blockchain)