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Corda 5 was designed from the outset to be cloud-native. Specifically, the worker architecture allows for independent scaling and resilience of the components that make up the Corda platform, all loosely coupled via a message bus. The usage of container images as the delivery mechanism for those components and Kubernetes as the runtime orchestrator should be fairly uncontroversial. This article discusses the rationale for the decision to use Helm to package the Kubernetes configuration.

We are really excited to present to you today the first preview of the new peer-to-peer communications layer of Corda 5, which is now open source. If you are not familiar with what Corda 5 aspires to deliver, we highly recommend reading the previous “Corda 5 the road ahead” blog post series from R3’s product management team. This preview is a good indication of how Corda 5 delivers on the areas of multi-tenancy, horizontal scalability and high availability.

The code for the latest version of the world’s most successful enterprise blockchain platform is now open source. Is it finished and ready to use? No. Is it close? Getting there – watch this space. Is it cool? It is very cool. I’m here to explain what the team at R3 have made available, where to find it, and why we’re doing this now.

Performance is an important aspect of any enterprise software application. Blockchain is seen as the next big thing that could change the way we transact in the near future. However, blockchains are slow. This is one of the major reasons why businesses are skeptical about using a blockchain-based system in a major way.

The world is rapidly changing as we continue to come out with new and innovative ways to do things faster, more efficiently, and more cost-effectively. However, banking is still lagging behind—hardly much has changed, and we still take days and weeks to process financial transactions. Modern banking is still inefficient and costly. Why is this and what can be done about it?

The use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to establish digital trust is increasing rapidly across myriad sectors. R3’s Corda is the industry-standard platform for developers who build DLT applications for highly regulated markets, including banking, trade finance and capital markets. No matter where you are on your blockchain application development journey or which version of Corda you are using, R3 is here to support your build and shorten your time to deployment.

R3's customers in regulated industries require secure and highly available services that process data with integrity to maintain confidentiality and privacy. We currently support enterprise customers through our 24x7 customer support, blockchain application firewall, Hardware Security Module (HSM) integrations and compliance with industry-wide information security standards. 

By Dr. Iryna Tsimashenka R3 has launched the Technical Preview of Corda Payments, a new payment initiation and processing module for CorDapps. Corda Payments enables developers to quickly connect to traditional off-ledger payment rails and payment service providers with minimal coding. Corda Payments includes out-of-the-box integration with Modulr—a banking as a service provider for UK ...

Application networks are part of our ambitious plan to update Corda’s network model, delivering more privacy and more control while reducing operational complexity and cost. This blog post explores the moving pieces of these networks and the extra benefits they can bring.

Welcome back! In the previous blog post, we took some time to go over how the new Corda 5 APIs impact CorDapp development. In our Developer Preview, we released new, interface-based, modular APIs. With these modular APIs, you can develop faster by building and testing more effectively. We briefly touched on Project Layer Cake, the initiative that inspired us to make our APIs modular and split Corda into discrete, logical layers of value: network, flow, ledger, and contract.