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By: Ido Katz, Product Manager – Developer Experience at R3 The next generation of Corda represents a new era for R3 and its flagship distributed application platform Corda. R3’s Developer Experience (DevEx) team understands the importance of providing the best journey for CorDapp developers—a productive and efficient process including designing, coding, and testing. In this ...

By: Dries Samyn, Principal Software Engineer at R3 Next-Gen Corda in Numbers These are just some of the statistics to give an indication of the scale of the work that has gone into building the next generation of the best Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) platform in the world. All while continuing the development of Corda ...

By: Ramzi El-Yafi, Staff Software Engineer at R3 In a previous blog post, we looked at the Notary Architecture in Corda 5 as a whole. As part of this, we briefly mentioned that notary functionality is provided in the form of “plugin” CorDapps. Since then, we have added official documentation to explain the implications of ...

This post has been last updated on July 26, 2023 after the general availability of Next-Gen Corda. By: David Currie – Principal Software Engineer at R3 As the release of Corda 5 gets steadily closer, it has never been easier to get a Corda 5 cluster up and running on Kubernetes. In doing so, you ...

By: Maciej Swierad – DevOps Engineer at R3 I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. For they are the future, and the future is automated.George Devol Have you ever wondered how software actually makes its way into the real world? How it’s published and distributed? How it’s built and secured? Have you thought about ...

By: Miljenko Brkic, Principal Software Engineer at R3 This article is a follow-up to the Corda 5 Sandboxes blog post. It will explore in more detail how Corda 5 uses Java Security Manager to secure sandboxes. Corda 5 supports multiple virtual nodes sharing a single Corda installation and multiple CorDapps (Corda distributed applications) running within the same ...

By: Steph Paine The opportunity of moving to a new department is often an exciting thought for many, but for me it came with a level of doubt. Business Resources, the central admin and support team to the Engineering team is like going from a small, fun outgoing team to what is seen by many ...

By: Ramzi El Yafi In our previous blog post, we discussed what a notary is, and why it plays a fundamental role in securing Corda’s UTXO ledger. In this blog post, we delve into the details of the notary architecture in Corda 5, delivering a solution which allows new notarization protocols to be introduced with ...

By: Katelyn Baker, Head of Software Engineering How does one wrap up a year, summarizing 8760 hours in hopefully fewer words in a manner compelling to readers? If anyone has any bright ideas, please let me know. However, in the absence of talent, we must rely on perseverance, so let’s give it a good old ...

A journey into running Corda 5 on an Apple Silicon Mac or other ARM processor-based hosts Write Once, Run Anywhere A couple of months back, a brand new shiny ARM-based Apple Silicon Mac dropped onto my desk here at R3. Figuratively that is, first impressions were that it’s a little more “robust” than the previous ...