First announced in October 2015 as an update to its Azure cloud computing platform, Microsoft’s BaaS offering currently allows developers to deploy private and semi-public blockchain networks on Ethereum and otherwise experiment with the decentralized application platform.
Microsoft has partnered with Ripple and that its Azure BaaS is operating a node on the Ripple consensus network. Support could soon be added for the startup’s Interledger protocol, which seeks to enable transactions between distributed and traditional bank ledgers.
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