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Besides, most blockchain development at this point has been at the lowest infrastructure level, and there has been little to no development work on user interaction or mobile applications. Hyperledger believes that Iroha is necessary for the popularization of blockchain technology. This project fills the gap in the market by bringing in more developers and providing libraries for mobile user interface development.

Iroha’s iOS, Android, and JavaScript libraries provide supportive functions like digitally signing transactions. It’s handy for commercial app development, and it adds new layers of security and business models that are only possible with blockchain technology.

Blockchains have systems that allow them to first agree on a single version of the truth and then record that agreed-upon truth in their ledger. An agreement system is called a consensus. A consensus is complicated, and grasping the nuances of how and why a consensus acts in the way it does is far more than a business professional needs to know. (If you’re curious, though, or interested in getting into cryptocurrency mining, check out ssss1.) What does matter for you are the consequences of different consensus mechanisms and how they affect what you’re doing on that particular blockchain. Iroha’s consensus, Sumeragi, is worthy of note because it’s very different from traditional blockchains.