R3 Developers Blog

R3’s Corda is the industry-standard platform for developers who build DLT applications for highly regulated markets, including banking, trade finance and capital markets.Corda is now one platform that comes in two fully supported Editions–Community and Enterprise. We are excited to announce the release of Corda 4.9!

Central Bank Digital Currencies provide the features of blockchain and come with the in-built trust in the central bank or nation’s monetary authority.

R3 is pleased to announce the release of Corda Payments Technical Preview — a new payment initiation and processing module for CorDapps. The Technical Preview enables developers to quickly connect to traditional off-ledger payment rails and payment service providers with minimal coding.

Application networks are part of our ambitious plan to update Corda’s network model, delivering more privacy and, more control while reducing operational complexity and cost. This blog post explores the moving pieces of these networks and the extra benefits they can bring.

Project Layer Cake: a small-scale, time-boxed effort to understand how developers use Corda and what the platform means to their success. We wanted to come out of this project with an understanding of how to simplify the way we communicate Corda concepts to our business and technical partners.

Corda 5 Developer Preview, which you can consider an alpha release, allows you to assess our new set of modular APIs and how they might impact your development velocity. In this blog post, we will deep dive into what API modularity means for developers and touch on our motivations behind them.

The new Corda 5 architecture and deployment methods are designed to deliver high availability and scalability. We placed these two crucial aspects of any high-dependency system at the center of our development mindset. After a process of careful planning and re-architecting, we are excited to share the direction we are taking for the new Corda 5 node architecture — designed to maximize reliability, availability, and scalability.