Talk of the benefits of smart contracts on the blockchain has been around for awhile, but Williamsburg-based Consensys is now in business with the big boys, partnering with Microsoft’s Azure platform this week.
ConsenSys and Microsoft form partnership to offer Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service https://t.co/vpC1t0lJxz @ethereumproject
— Andrew Keys (@AndrewDARMACAP) October 28, 2015
The partnership came from “Essentially a cold call,” Consensys Director of Communications Andrew Keys wrote in an email to Technical.ly. “I emailed the director of cloud strategy for MSFT. They loved the idea and now we’re off to the races :)”
The partnership will offer Azure customers tools and applications for building ethereum blockchain apps on two platforms, one called BlockApps and one called Ether.Camp.
The move marks a big step for the Ethereum-based company, founded by Ethereum co-creator Joseph Lubin.
Dawning of a new kind of decentralized compute cloud, configurably transparent or private dependent on the use case. https://t.co/baxI4vtJey
— Joseph Lubin (@ethereumJoseph) October 28, 2015
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