BLOCK CHAIN SOLUTION
BLOCK CHAIN SOLUTION HYPERLEDGER FABRIC
CHALLENGE APPROACH RESULTS
• Outbreak of a food-borne disease takes many • Walmart found blockchain technology to be a • The Hyperledger Fabric blockchain-based
number of days to find its source good fit for the decentralized food supply food traceability system built for the two
• Better traceability could help save lives by ecosystem products worked
• To test this hypothesis, the company created • For pork in China, it allowed uploading
allowing companies to act faster and protect
a food traceability system based on certificates of authenticity to the blockchain,
the livelihoods of farmers by only discarding
Hyperledger Fabric bringing more trust to a system
produce from the affected farms
• Walmart, together with its technology
• And for mangoes in the US, the time needed
partner IBM, ran two proof of concept
to trace their provenance went from 7 days
projects to test the system
to 2.2 seconds