Interledger : keeping blockchain agile

Yesterday I attended the Interledger workshop at Level 39 in Canary Wharf.   Level 39 is Europe's largest technology accelerator, and it is hard not to be impressed with the environment they have created there - it just goes to underline London as an innovation hotspot for Fintech and in particular, Blockchain.

The workshop was an introduction to some new features and a chance to hack on the Interledger framework in the Hackathon afterwards.

It was well-attended by an enthusiastic audience.  However, the most refreshing thing about the day was the quality of the presenters and the depth of the technical content.  I also had the chance to catch up with the guys from BigChainDB who explained some of their design choices that centred around their original primary use case for tracking IP assets.

Over the course of the afternoon it struck me how important a technology Interledger is.  In these uncertain and exciting times of Blockchain application development, many people (Excelian included) are moving forward with their own Proofs of Concept.  However, what happens when all these PoCs move into production with their own individual technology stack?... What if the ledgers need to interoperate?...What if I want to create an asset swap between the ledgers or a convertible bond?  Interledger allows us to remain agile and defer those decisions until we know more, some time further down the line.

Rest assured, Interledger is going to the top of our “investigate” list!